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Teachers in schools where students have experienced trauma face particularly difficult challenges, for how is a teacher to promote academic growth and attainment of educational goals in such a situation? Provides advice, understanding, and proven strategies for meeting the challenges that must be faced after a traumatic experience.

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PART I: UNDERSTANDING TRAUMA Trauma Comes to School Trauma´s Effect on the Brain: An Overview for Educators Pretending to do School PART II: LEARNING FROM THE EXPERIENCE Hurricane Katrina and the Children of Louisiana Inner-city Charter School in Post-Katrina New Orleans: A Principal´s Perspective Reclaiming the New York Law School Who´s Looking out for the Students? ´You Don´t Learn These Things in Principal School´ Not Here, Not at Columbine Aftercare Support for School Personnel after a School Shooting in Finland Burned into Memory: Remnants of Bullying and Personal Victimization Community - Just Getting Through This: Bailey, Colorado PART III: PUTTING THE PAIN TO WORK Recommendations & Implications Resources

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Carolyn Lunsford Mears, PhD, the author of the award winning study Experiences of Columbine Parents: Finding a Way to Tomorrow and of the books Reclaiming School in the Aftermath of Trauma and Interviewing for Education and Social Science Research: The Gateway Approach , holds a research position, serves on the Graduate School of Social Work Trauma Certificate Board, and is dissertation advisor and adjunct faculty at the Morgridge College of Education, University of Denver, USA.

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