Implementing Social and Emotional Learning and Trauma-Skilled Model

Since 2013, Sandy Addis has served as Director of the National Dropout Prevention Center, the nation’s oldest and most utilized dropout prevention resource, where he leads a staff of content experts and researchers to provide technical assistance to school districts and states to improve high school graduation rates.  In that capacity, he has delivered presentations on dropout prevention across the nation and has authored numerous guides, tools, and position papers on graduation rate improvement.

Recently, Addis led a team of researchers and educators to study the issues of childhood stress, adverse experiences, and trauma on school success, to review current professional development and practices in the areas of social emotional learning and trauma, and to develop the Trauma-Skilled Schools Model as a roadmap for schools to strategically address these issues to achieve improved graduation outcomes.

In this webinar, he discussed the Trauma-Skilled Model, common school manifestations of trauma and four skillsets educators need to have to deal with trauma in school.