Name: How teachers can help students navigate trauma | Lisa Godwin
Uploaded: 2020-03-10T12:04:05.000Z
Duration: 15 min 21 s
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sometimes are the ones that define us the most.

has estimated that over half of our nation's children

have experienced at least one or two types of childhood trauma.

When I began to have opportunities to speak

and advocate for students and for teachers,

to be able to speak about childhood trauma.

did I want to just share the bright and shiny parts of my life,

you know, those ones that we put out on social media

In order to make a difference in the life of a child,

So I made the commitment to tell my personal story.

And this story is filled with people that have loved me

And now it's time for me to help others do the same.

When I first started school, I was the picture of normalcy.

By this time, I had already become a victim of sexual abuse.

When I started school, I felt like this was going to be my safe place.

of everything that scared me the most in my life.

I had already started these self-preservation techniques

to where I took myself out of positions where I was going to be alone with a man.

I was going to be in a classroom with a man every day,

Mr. Randolph would turn out to be my greatest advocate.

oh, I made sure he knew I did not like him.

And I also made it really hard on my parents, too.

so I fought them every morning, getting on the bus.

Which, exhausted children are cranky children,

Mr. Randolph could have approached me with frustration,

like so many teachers do with students like me.

He saw this six-year-old was tired and weary.

And so instead of making me go outside for recess,

Instead of sitting at the teacher table at lunch,

he would come and sit with the students at the student table.

He would engage me and all my classmates in conversation.

he was listening, he was asking questions.

those walls that I had built around myself

and I eventually realized he was one of the good guys.

I know that he felt like he wasn't enough.

Because he made the move to talk to my mom.

to let me start seeing a school guidance counselor,

I started seeing Ms. McFadyen once or twice a week

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How teachers can help students navigate trauma | Lisa Godwin

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