Educational Trauma

Lee-Anne Gray is a psychologist, educator, author, and national speaker. In her private practice, she served as a forensic and clinical consulting psychologist to public defenders, families, students, and school districts throughout the state of California. Gray was also a TEDx organizer. Formerly an instructor of Psychology of Gender in the Departments of Psychology/Women's Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, Gray founded The Connect Group in 2011, and continues to serve the global educational community with innovative professional development seminars in self-compassion, LGBTQ+ youth, Design Thinking, EmpathicEducation, as well as with transformational coaching.

1. Introduction.- 2. Educational Trauma.- 3. The State of Educational Affairs.- 4. Trauma, Learning, and Memory.- 5. The Effects of Trauma on Learning.- 6. How poisonous is the pedagogy?.- 7. Social Ecology: How Poisonous Pedagogy Sickens Students and Society.- 8. PLAY.- 9. Sexual and Gender/Puberty/Health Education.- 10. Homework: Trauma for Students, Parents, Families, Teachers, and communities.- 11. Standardized testing.- 12. Value Added Models and Other Forms of Teacher Abuse.- 13. Special and gifted education.- 14. Bullying.- 15. Corporal Punishment in Schools.- 16. Higher Education: Where Educational Trauma begins and is perpetuated.- 17. Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and chemical restraints.- 18. The School-to-Prison Pipeline.- 19. Strategies for Mitigating Educational Trauma.- 20. Conclusion.-