Deepening and broadening our understanding of what it means to teach in times of trauma, writing teachers analyze their own responses to national traumas rangin

A foreword by former soldier and memoirist Brian Turner, author of My Life as a Foreign Country, and an afterword by military wife and memoirist Angela Ricketts

Educators must both respond to the impact of trauma, and prevent trauma at school. Trauma-informed initiatives tend to focus on the challenging behaviors of stu

“Though life occurs in events, it must be written about in moments.” Today’s youth are growing up in an age of stress and trauma, and nowhere is that more

Analyzing their own responses to national traumas, writing teachers question both the purposes and pedagogies of teaching writing.