The equity gap has only widened in schools over the course of the last several months. Further, not only have educators undergone significant amounts of trauma in the last several months, but so have the children we serve.
How do we create better conditions now
to mitigate the effects of trauma for ourselves and for them?
How do we welcome our children back into healthy,
healing schools and classrooms?
Come find out when dynamic educators, Dr. Nealy-Oparah and Mrs. Scruggs-Hussein, share key concepts of their trauma-responsive approach through an equity lens. They will share a framework full of actionable strategies to help LEAs create schools and classrooms designed to thrive now and when schools reopen…whatever that may look like.
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Shawn Nealy-Oparah, Ed.D.
is an innovative, trauma-informed educator with twenty years of experience as a teacher, school leader, and a school transformation equity coach. She is an experienced leader in trauma-informed research/schools, popular education pedagogy, and has knowledge and training in the area of generative somatics. Using both a trauma-informed and equity lens, Shawn supports schools to develop practices that will improve school culture, leadership and teaching practices, and student achievement. Shawn is also an adjunct professor in the School of Education at Mills College, as well as one of the founding teachers of the trauma-informed leadership graduate course. Shawn is passionate about teaching educators, and facilitating workshops in trauma-informed leadership/practice, equity, social-emotional intelligence.
Tovi Scruggs-Hussein
is a visionary, author, coach, and award-winning urban educator with over 25 years of leadership, meditation, and transformation experience. Tovi wrote a book for families of color called Be a Parent Champion so that we could have better schools and family engagement in order to serve our children more effectively from a place of love. Tovi serves as an expert leader in equity, trauma-informed resilience, and emotional intelligence development for leaders so that the culture-climate of of our organizations is transformed to improve outcomes. She is on a mission to heal our leaders and organizations through Adult Social Emotional Learning, Emotional Intelligence via Mindfulness, Equity/Racial Healing, and Trauma-Informed Resilience. Tovi focuses on emotionally intelligent leadership development and has been personally trained by Brene Brown as a Certified Dre to Lead Facilitator. Tovi is a founding adjunct professor of Trauma-Informed Leadership at Mills College and is the National President for Coalition for Schools Educating Mindfully. Tovi cultivates conscious, connected, and courageous leaders world-wide.
Shawn Nealy-Oparah & Tovi Scruggs-Hussein are partners at TrUTH Educational Consulting.
