From Trauma-Informed Practices to a Compassionate Community

From Trauma-Informed Practices to a Compassionate Community

BySarah Duncan

Trauma-informed practices are not new in education, yet it appears we still have work to do when it comes to creating a compassionate community for all. The impacts of trauma on our students and on the university community as a whole are longstanding issues, but the events surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic really served to highlight…

Mental Health and UDL
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Mental Health and UDL

BySeanna Takacs

According to this report, students are confiding in Faculty about mental health struggles, particularly in the last year around COVID, and questions continue to arise around how to help students who have. In my discussions with Faculty around both UDL and accommodation planning, mental health disabilities come up frequently. Absences, episodic symptoms that see students…