Unapologetic Disrupter for Good Podcast

Hannah Albery has been the Headteacher at Yarborough Academy since September 2017. Previous to this, she was in the classroom for ten years and has had the roles of Early Years Lead and Mathematics Lead. She is a qualified Mathematics Specialist Teacher, a Teaching for Mastery Specialist and a Numicon Consultant. From an intense amount of personal investment in the form of: reading, research, CPD...

Audrey Freshwater is a National speaker on Attachment, Trauma Informed Care, Moving Beyond ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences), Child Development, Understanding Behavior and best practices for working with children. Ms. Freshwater is also a trainer for the Building Strong Brains curriculum developed by the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth (TCCY). Outside of being a keynote and session s...

As an experienced teacher, school counselor, and play therapist, Jen Alexander believes that we can make a big difference with kids – one relationship at a time, which is why she is a passionate leader in the movement to build trauma-sensitive schools. Jen loves helping others help kids and has done so in schools, as a volunteer for the Attachment & Trauma Network (ATN), and when facilitating her...

Kat Stern is a Therapeutic Education Consultant, previously Director of Teaching & Learning for Behavior in a large inner-city school (ages 11-18 yrs). For 4 years, she ran an educational unit specifically for students at risk of exclusion from school. She is currently setting up a trial of trauma-informed education in a Young Offenders' Institute (youth prison). We discuss her work in the youth p...

Principal Amy Mason from Gurley, Alabama discusses her school's transformation to become a trauma informed school over the past five years.

Dr. Lori Desautels talks about so many amazing strategies grounded in the idea of relational mediated discipline! She will also be sharing many different resources with the listeners which you can access through our many social media outlets (Facebook: Trauma Informed Educators Network, Paradigm Shift Education, and Trauma Informed Educators Network Podcast; Twitter: @principalest

Dr. Bruce Perry overviews his systematic Neurosequential Model while also discussing brain science, systematic changes, and the awesomeness and impact of educators!

Wendy Olaitan and Danielle Barahona discuss the impact of trauma-informed teaching on their classroom that consists of immigrant children who have had significant interruptions in their formal education!

Hear from Juliana Nichols-Hazlett on her personal journey in self-awareness as she continued through her personal struggle to understand why fellow educators didn't have the "gift" of working with hard kids!

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Ingrid Cockhren discusses race, intergenerational trauma, historical trauma and so many other relevant topics that support becoming trauma-informed.

Claudia Roodt is a therapist and trauma-informed trainer in Cape Town, South Africa. Through this podcast she shared her experience and insight on how to move forward in South Africa in the aftermath of apartheid. Her focus of trauma-informed education and systems is truly remarkable.

This first Trauma Informed Educators Network Podcast episode was held with Jim Sporleder who is a pioneer of trauma-informed work. He is a principal, trainer, speaker, and field expert! Here his thoughts around where to start on this journey to understand that many traumatized kids have traumatized parents.