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Episode 47 - Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education w/Alex Shevrin Venet
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Alex Shevrin Venet is an educator, author, and professional development facilitator based in Vermont. She teaches community college and graduate teacher education. Previously, she was a teacher and leader at an alternative therapeutic school. She is the co-founder of the Nurturing the Nurturers collective, a healing community for educators. Her first book, Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education, is a bestseller at W.W. Norton. She is also a long-time ungrader!
Topics include:
- How Alex’s personal background and professional experiences led to her interest in trauma-informed education
- How Alex defines trauma in the context of her work in schools
- How centering four “proactive priorities” can help schools move toward more equitable and trauma-informed systems and decisions
- How the proactive priorities can be used to make ungrading more equitable, inclusive, and trauma informed
- How teachers can collectively work to make change at all levels of the system at the same time
- Why grades can be a barrier to unconditional acceptance
Other resources:
- Alex’s book: Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education
- Alex’s website: unconditionallearning.org
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