The Heart of Learning and Teaching: Compassion, Resiliency, and Academic Success

The purpose of the handbook is to inform, validate, and strengthen the collective work of educators to support students whose learning is adversely affected by chronic stress and trauma. This handbook provides current information about trauma and learning, self care, classroom strategies, and building parent and community partnerships that work.

It includes many case studies and vignettes from classrooms across Washington as well as an introduction to the Compassionate Schools Initiative which has already been successfully implemented in several schools across Washington State.

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