Using Teaching Skills and Resources We Already Have to Help Students Manage Pandemic Trauma

Inside The Mind of Teens and Tweens

English - November 17, 2021 03:49 - 10 minutes - ★★★★ - 46 ratings
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Most of us have accepted that managing student trauma is part of every teacher’s job in the wake of the pandemic. In this episode, we look at strategies and tools we’ve been using for years that can be repurposed to help students manage the social-emotional issues they’re bringing to school.

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Dr. Michael Gaskell is Principal at Hammarskjold Middle School in East Brunswick, NJ. following experience as a special educator and assistant principal in Paramus, NJ. He continues to model the pursuit of lifelong learning as he serves to mentor new principals through the New Jersey Leaders to Leaders program. An NJPSA Stars recipient, he has been published in over 2 dozen articles in education journals and blogs, including eSchoolNews, NASSP, Edtech and ASCD Smartbrief, he has made the most-read section of ASCD Smartbrief numerous times. Mike had a book published in October, 2020 (Microstrategy Magic), and a second book published in September 2021 (Leading Schools Through Trauma).