In the second part of our three part series with Heather Forbes we dive into teacher buy-in and how to create change in the school environment.  Heather is an expert in the field of trauma-informed care and is the owner of the Beyond Consequences Institute which works to help educators and parents take a trauma-informed approach with students.  Join Kristy Houle as she chats with Heather and takes a deeper look into teacher implementation of the trauma-informed approach.

In this episode, you’ll hear…

• The work involved with trauma-informed, love-based care
• How to maintain positive change in the classroom over time
• How to work with parents whose consequence strategies differ

“As a nation we have always looked at it as if someone acts out or breaks the rules, they have to be punished.  And so we have to step back and see this differently and that’s a big stretch for some people”

“All of us have a tendency as human beings to go back to what is familiar when we get stressed out we’re not as mindful or cognitive and we kind of go into auto-pilot and revert back to the same parenting programs that our parents did.”

–Heather Forbes, The Classroom Matters podcast