Heather Forbes is one of the nation’s leading experts in the world of Trauma-Informed Education and has been a catalyst for the positive changes in school districts across the country.  As the owner of the Beyond Consequences Institute, Heather has worked for over 20 years helping to educate both teachers and parents in the area of using a trauma-informed approach to help student’s academic and behavioral health.  Join host Kristy Houle as she starts this three part series with Heather to discuss the building blocks of the Beyond Consequences approach and how we can become better equipped to face upcoming challenges in the educational system.

In this episode you’ll hear…

• The various ways kids respond to trauma
• How educators can engage with behavioral issues
• How the brain processes trauma

“So many of our traditional techniques [behavior] do not deal with children at their neurological level.”

“When you use traditional techniques, which are based off of fear, it actually works the opposite way.  It turns them [students] to get angrier and gets them to a more agitated or aggressive state.”

–Heather Forbes, The Classroom Matters podcast