Keynote address: What’s next for Trauma-Aware education: Strategies for all schools to learn, apply and sustain
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| Saturday, November 2, 2024 |
| 8:30 AM - 9:25 AM |
| Plaza Ballroom |
Overview
Dr Tom Brunzell, Director of Education, Berry Street, Australia
Speaker
Dr Tom Brunzell
Director
Berry Street
What’s next for Trauma-Aware education: Strategies for all schools to learn, apply and sustain
8:30 AM - 9:25 AMAbstract
Trauma-aware education currently draws upon evidence emerging from allied and interdisciplinary scholarship from education, neuroscience, therapeutics, social care, and wellbeing when providing durable strategies for teaching and learning. But how do we proactively ensure that trauma-aware education continues to meet the evolving needs within our school communities and beyond? Given our collective goals to innovate and sustain trauma-aware education, Dr Tom Brunzell will propose future directions for schools, their leadership teams, and researchers alike, to leverage, develop, and sustain students' strengths whilst also supporting their differentiated and often complex unmet needs.
Biography
Dr Tom Brunzell (MST, EdM, PhD) has experience as a teacher, school leader, researcher and education advisor. Tom completing his teacher qualifications at Yale University and commenced his career as an educator in the United States. Currently he is the Director of Education at Berry Street and Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne Graduate School of Education. His research at the University of Melbourne investigates trauma-informed strengths-based classroom strategies and both the negative impacts of secondary traumatic stress and the positive impacts of wellbeing on teachers and leaders, working towards educational equity in their communities. Dr Brunzell has authored and co-authored many research and other articles and co-authored the popular book, Creating Trauma-Informed Strengths-Based Classrooms: Teacher Strategies for Nurturing Students’ Healing, Growth, and Learning (2021) with Dr Jacolyn Norrish.
Session chair
Judith Howard
Associate Professor
Queensland University of Technology
