Teaching in Higher Ed

Naming the Urgency: Trauma-Informed Practices in Higher Ed, with Jeanie Tietjen

Teaching in Higher Ed

Show Notes

Jeanie Tietjen unpacks trauma-informed practices in higher ed and why naming itself is a form of teaching on episode 626 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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Quotes from the episode

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Naming goes so far back in, even just in literary terms, the importance of naming.

-Jeanie Tietjen

There is still a very nascent and as yet relatively unarticulated understanding of how profoundly trauma, adversity, and violence adversely affect teaching and learning.

-Jeanie Tietjen

Many students have experienced traumas that are situated in educational settings, bullying experiences that are identity-based, that profoundly shape how they feel about the educational setting as a place.

-Jeanie Tietjen

Learning is very vulnerable. It involves being wrong, failing, failing in front of other people.

-Jeanie Tietjen

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Resources

Naming the Urgency: The Importance of Trauma-Informed Practices in Community Colleges, by Jeanie Tietjen (chapter)

Trauma Informed Pedagogies: A Guide for Responding to Crisis and Inequality in Higher Education, edited by Phyllis Thompson and Janice Carello

The Institute for Trauma, Adversity, and Resilience in Higher Education

Supporting the Whole Student: Mental Health, Substance Use, and Wellbeing in Higher Education (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)

What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing, by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey

SAMHSA’s 6 Guiding Principles to a Trauma-Informed Approach (infographic)

Mays Imad

Janice Carello

Bryan Dewsbury

Tracie Addy and PAITE (Personal Assessment of Inclusive Teaching for Effectiveness)

Education Northwest — research on trauma and attendance (Shannon Davidson)

Teaching Solidarity: Critical Race Reading, by Malini Johar Schueller

The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks

Episode 357: Sandie Morgan and Warren Doody on Elizabeth Leonard’s interdisciplinary legacy

Bread and War: A Ukrainian Story of Food, Bravery and Hope, by Felicity Spector

Flour Power (Felicity Spector’s Substack)

The Gap (Ira Glass), video by Daniel Sax on Vimeo

The Gap — PKM in Action, by Bonni Stachowiak

Poll Everywhere

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