Risky Behaviors: Trauma in the Classroom

Learn how to aid students with trauma in the classroom setting.

About This Session

Explore various strategies for helping students and educators develop resiliency.

Why are educators having so many issues in their classrooms with student behavior, negativity, and poor learning? In this course, we will look at the impact of trauma and adversity in the lives of our students, and how those experiences shape their daily lives in the school building. We will discuss how the myriad of student behaviors in the classroom are too often born in survival skills driven by fear.

"This info and all the books shared will help me with many current students and students to come. I'm a brand new teacher and learned a lot!"

- 2023 Lost Sparrows Trauma Conference Attendee

About Your Instructor

Darren Gagnon is the co-founder and president of Lost Sparrows. Lost Sparrows is working to empower and equip communities to love and care for vulnerable children and families, as well as provide education around the impact of childhood trauma. Darren has a degree in Biology from Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana, and was a high school teacher and basketball coach for almost 20 years. Darren and his wife Stacey have 7 children, including 5 adopted children. Darren’s years as a foster dad, along with his experience as a secondary teacher give him a unique perspective and ability to understand and communicate the effects of childhood trauma well.