Teaching Through The Eyes of Trauma: Recent Episodes
Dr. Salena Smith
"Teaching Through The Eyes of Trauma", An Inner Ear Agency Production, is a podcast dedicated to engaging and empowering educators and other community leaders with trauma-informed and resilience focused tools and strategies to develop the whole child by Healing First and Educating Always!
Essential Question: How can teachers build strong, trusting relationships with students from day one, and respond to behaviors with curiosity instead of judgment?
Essential Question: How does the role of being a "teacher mom" enhance both teaching and parenting, and what struggles can be shared to support others in similar roles?
Essential Question: How can we use social and emotional learning (SEL) skills to stay safe, healthy, and resilient during summer break?
Essential Question: How can individuals not only survive but thrive in the aftermath of childhood trauma, defying the expectations set by their past experiences?
Essential Question: How can individuals not only survive but thrive in the aftermath of childhood trauma, defying the expectations set by their past experiences?
Essential Question: How can individuals not only survive but thrive in the aftermath of childhood trauma, defying the expectations set by their past experiences?
Essential Question: How can individuals not only survive but thrive in the aftermath of childhood trauma, defying the expectations set by their past experiences?
Essential Question: How can individuals not only survive but thrive in the aftermath of childhood trauma, defying the expectations set by their past experiences?
Essential Question: How can individuals not only survive but thrive in the aftermath of childhood trauma, defying the expectations set by their past experiences?
Essential Question: How can individuals not only survive but thrive in the aftermath of childhood trauma, defying the expectations set by their past experiences?
Essential Question: How can we create trauma-informed classrooms and campuses that minimize triggers for our students?
Essential question: How do the physiological manifestations of trauma in the body, including intergenerational influences and somatic sensations, impact our understanding of trauma and inform pathways to healing?
Essential Question: How can couples effectively communicate their triggers to cultivate understanding and support within their relationship?
In this episode, Dr. Smith switches roles from host to guest as she joins the men of Man-Talk Mondays for an informative/entertaining discussion about how unresolved trauma from you past affects you present relationships.
Essential Question: Who is running your relationship?
Essential Question: How does selective mutism manifest in traumatized children, and what tools can educators and parents employ to support their silent journey to healing?
Essential Question: How does high exposure to experiences of rejection in childhood affect the learning environment and shape adult behaviors and relationships?
Essential Question: Why do some individuals, particularly children exposed to trauma, adopt a "flight" response, and how does this manifest in their behavior and decision-making as adults?
Essential Question: How do snow days exacerbate challenges for students dealing with trauma and toxic stress?
Essential Question: How can we create trauma-informed classrooms and campuses that minimize triggers for our students?
Essential Question: What drives educators to the breaking point, prompting drastic actions like walkouts, and how does this impact the educational system?
Essential Question: How can individuals and families heal from intergenerational trauma, manage trauma triggers during the holidays, and find harmony in family gatherings?
Essential Question: How can educators effectively address and cope with secondary traumatic stress while supporting students exposed to trauma and toxic stress?
Essential Question: How can trauma-informed strategies be effectively applied to support students with disabilities, and what impact do traumatic experiences during developmental years have on academic development?
Essential Question: How can schools in high-stress, urban, or high-risk environments successfully implement trauma-informed practices to support students' well-being and academic success?
Essential Question: What is root trauma and how does it shape our lives and experiences?
Engaging Question: How can we engage parents as partners to support students exposed to trauma and toxic stress?
Essential Question: How can educators cultivate a trauma-informed curriculum to better meet the needs of trauma-exposed students?
Essential Question: How can we effectively support children with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and minimize the long-term impact on their lives?
Essential Question: How can we identify resilience factors that mitigate the impact of trauma on our students?
Essential Question: How can we effectively teach emotional regulation and self-awareness to students while fostering emotional intelligence both in the classroom and at home?
Essential Question: How can educators cultivate safe and nurturing learning environments through trauma-informed practices?
Essential Question: How can trauma-informed education positively impact the lives of students and create a nurturing learning environment?
Essential Question: How can educators and parents empower children to effectively manage anger, allowing them to thrive academically and emotionally?
This episode aims to help listeners understand the nature of anger, recognize its barriers to success in school and personal life, explore healthy ways for students to express their anger, and provide practical strategies for supporting students with anger issues.
Essential Question: How can we process our emotions effectively to ensure our response doesn't add to the negativity in the world?
This episode aims to help our listeners develop the skills necessary to process their emotions in a healthy and constructive way.
Essential Question: How does trauma show up in the halls of a school building and what should be done about it?
This episode seeks to explain how trauma doesn't just affect students, but it can also affect teachers, creating an environment of stress and anxiety that can be difficult to navigate.
Essential Question: How does unresolved trauma affect work-life balance?
This episode seeks to help listeners understand how workaholism is a trauma response and how it affects your professional life.
Essential Question: How do negative emotions seem to rise without a cause?
This episode seeks to help listeners understand how our emotions are a byproduct of what is going on within the hidden cortex of our subconscious.
Essential Question: What are the challenges that parenting children exposed to trauma brings and how do you mitigate that trauma?
This episode seeks to understand how intentional parents have to be with the level of support that is needed for children exposed to trauma.
Essential Question: How do childhood experiences of trauma manifest in your adult relationships?
This episode seeks to help adults realize how unprocessed childhood trauma can reveal itself in their current relationships.
In light of the recent tragedies involving several incidents of violence in schools involving students, we wanted to revisit an important discussion we had involving the mental health in our school system. Please take a listen, and also like, share, and review this episode.
Essential Question: How do educators cope with the trauma in schools while simultaneously dealing with their own personal traumas?
This episode seeks to show transparency when it comes to trauma in schools and the difficulty of educators to be supportive to staff and students while also meeting their own social/emotional needs.
Essential Question:
How can we welcome wellness in the workplace, especially when trauma and toxic stress meet us there and follow us home?
This episode seeks to empower individuals to pull up to the relaxation station and welcome wellness in every area of their lives.
Essential Question:
What can we do to help the body reset so that we can relax in stressful times?
This episode seeks to empower individuals to pull up to the relaxation station and reset our bodies so that it houses positive energy and not stress and tension.
Bessel van der Kolk, MD., is a physician, researcher, and teacher who specializes in trauma and toxic stress, and the overwhelming affects that these experiences have on the mind, body, and society.
Essential Question: How can we train our minds and bodies to pull up to the relaxation station regularly so that we can live well?
This episode seeks to empower individuals to take back control of their busy lives and provide opportunities to increase their mental and physical wellness by scheduling time to pull into the relaxation station.
Essential Question: How can we support children in getting all in their feelings and check in with their emotions?
This episode seeks to help parents and teachers to support their children with their emotional development by checking in with their emotions.
Essential Question: How do words help you talk your way through when exposed to trauma and toxic stress.
This episode seeks to help listeners understand that positive self-talk can improve self-esteem, stress management, and well-being.
Essential Question: Can constantly being exposed to details and video of traumatic experiences give you PTSD?
With the video release of the police brutality towards Tyre Nichols, curious minds will be seeking to witness the tragic event. This episode discusses how constant trauma exposure causes Compassion Fatigue and impacts your mental health.
Essential Question: What can be gained by viewing behavior with a different mindset?
This episode seeks to help listeners understand the benefit of having a mindset shift to understand how and why individuals act, react, and respond the way that they do.
Essential Question: How does our body's alarm system support us in traumatic times?
This episode seeks to help individuals identify when their body's alarm system is blaring and what to do about it.
Essential Question: In this climate where mental health challenges are exacerbated by the tumultuous times that we as a society are facing, what are the prevailing misconceptions around mental health?
This episode is dedicated to the memory of Stephen "Twitch" Boss and seeks to bring about awareness of the mental health misconceptions to better support those who are struggling.
Teaching Through the Eyes of Trauma podcast is brought to you by the Inner Ear Agency, providing professional development and consulting services to balance the healing and education of children exposed to trauma. For services, visit innerearagency.com.
Essential Question: How can we support children in getting all in their feelings and check in with their emotions?
This episode seeks to help parents and teachers to support their children with their emotional development by checking in with their emotions.
Essential Question: How can we help individuals understand what to do with the knowledge of a trauma exposure?
This episode seeks to help those who have experienced trauma to seek ways to find support for their exposure and not use it as an excuse to behave poorly.
Essential Question: What does SEL (Social Emotional Learning) look like in schools from a child's perspective?
This episode seeks to see what children perceive SEL to be and what they would like to see more of in school.
Essential Question: What is the cost of children being in a constant chaotic environment?
This episode seeks to help parents and educators understand the importance of providing a warm, supportive environment free of chaos.
Essential Question: How can we use co-regulation to support students with self-regulation in times of stress?
This episode seeks to help educators and parents to understand their role in co-regulation to help support children.
Essential Question: How evident is the need for mental health supports in the school system and what are we doing about it?
This episode seeks to bring awareness to the need for mental health supports in schools.
Essential Question: How can students tell you what's wrong, what they need, and what they've gone through by their behavior.
This episode seeks to show parents and educators how to be curious and use what they observe to support students needs.
This episode, and conversation with our special guest licensed professional counselor, Amma Pennick, seeks to understand how an uncommon inheritance can affect the lives of generations.
Essential question: What happens when you have trauma that is not your own?
In this episode, we are revisiting one of our most popular episodes from season 1 where myself and three other ladies, who are educators in a large urban school district, discussed the challenges teachers were facing that would lead to the current teacher shortage our nation is experiencing at this time. I believe this episode will once again provide great information and insight to our listeners. Listen in to our discussion.
This episode seeks to understand the value of teachers of color and find ways to recruit and retain more of these individuals.
Essential question: What are some benefits, barriers, and ways to retain teachers of color?
This episode seeks to understand the trauma that Black male teachers experience and find ways to help them thrive in the educational system.
Essential question: What do black male educators need to thrive in education?
This episode seeks to help adults identify how things that they have experienced in their childhood can be directly reflected in their adult behavior and relationships.
Essential question: Could your unresolved childhood trauma be leaking into your adult life?
This episode seeks to identify tools and strategies for adults to provide a safe space for children exposed to trauma and toxic stress while resisting retraumatization with their actions.
Essential question: How can you resist being a source of trauma as a parent or care taker?
This episode seeks to help adults recognize those behaviors in students that can signify the presence of trauma or toxic stress.
Essential question: How can educators and parents identify signs and symptoms of trauma exposure in students as they head back to school.
Special guest: Samantha Brathwaite (Educator)
This episode seeks to provide tools and strategies for individuals to connect with students; especially those exposed to trauma and toxic stress.
Essential Question: How can you start off the school year positively in a way to connect with students in hopes of building nurturing, buffering relationships that protect them from the impact of trauma and toxic stress?
Essential question: How can we be intentional about preparing and supporting children exposed to trauma and toxic stress during the summer break?
This episode seeks to give parents and teachers tools and strategies to be proactive regarding the potential for triggering or retraumatizing experiences during and after the summer break.
How do we support children with unmet needs and broken circles?
This episode seeks to give parents and teachers tools and strategies to identify needs that are not being met and what circles are broken in order to support children on their journey towards healing and resiliency.
Essential Question: How does stress impact our body?
This episode seeks to educate listeners on the impact of stress and trauma in the body, and how it responds when in a state of constant stress.
In this episode, we want to revisit a very important podcast and subject that affects many people, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES).
Essential question: How can we foster wellness within ourselves and our children who have been exposed to trauma and toxic stress, so that they can be well?
This episode seeks to foster wellness within individuals exposed to trauma and toxic stress; mind, body, and emotions.
Essential Question: How can we change the environment from a negative frequency to a positive frequency when in the presence of children exposed to trauma?
This episode seeks to support educators and parents to change the frequency of the room by pouring into a child's need for mastery by speaking to their potential.
Essential Question: How can we provide the support needed to build the emotional resilience antibodies in our children and students?
This episode seeks to be a resilience guide for parents and educators to support their children through adversity.
This episode seeks to help educators to be a space of healing and restoration for students who have been exposed to trauma while not allowing residual effects.
Essential Question: How can we take our students on a journey to Copeville?
This episode seeks to provide parents, educators, and community leaders with tools and strategies to provide space and opportunity for students to practice coping mechanisms and experience resilience.
Our essential question for this week's podcast is, "Does experiencing trauma in childhood put you at a greater risk for suicide?"
This week we are joined by our special guest, Ebony Robinson, a licensed clinical social worker in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The goal of this episode is to remove the stigma of mental health challenges that we all face and normalize the healing process, including therapy. Listen in to the conversation!
This week's essential question: What makes a person's trauma valid?
This episode seeks to help you understand that you yourself, your students, children, or young adults can experience trauma in different ways. Validating those traumas will allow you to begin the healing process for yourself and/or your children.
This week's essential question: "Is toxic stress and trauma causing a mass exodus in the field of education?" This week I am joined by three wonderful ladies who have experienced education from various aspects, from the classroom to the front office. Listen in as we discuss the state of emergency happening now in the field of education.
This week we will be addressing the essential question, "How can you prevent re-traumatization of those who have experienced trauma? This episode features our special guest, Kamisha Harris. Please, take a listen.
The essential question we aim to answer in this episode is "Are all traumas the same?" Take a listen.
Essential Question: Are the number of ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences) a person has a predictive factor for emotional, cognitive, and health impairments?
The ACE Study is the most important public health study that most people have never heard of. This podcast's mission is to change that.
The phrase "Maslow before Bloom" is popular in education circles, and is typically used to communicate how humans must have their basic needs met before academic learning can be fully embraced. This episode aims to be a resource for others to gain insight from this phrase "Maslow before Bloom".
The essential question we will answer in this episode is "When educating the whole child, should schools focus on student's mental and emotional health, or Pedagogy, first?