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An ACE Score of One - An Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) is any potentially traumatic event that occurs in childhood. Trauma is an event that is scary, upsetting, confusing where we feel a loss of control and possibly a sense of not feeling safe. - Youth who experience trauma can develop trauma symptoms or what we call PTSD, but only about 20% do! We can mitigate that risk and directly increase resiliency. - Counter ACES include: Liking school, having teachers and school staff who care, opportunities to have fun, predictable home routine, feeling comfortable with themselves, having a caregiver they feel safe with, having good neighbors and friends. - A stressed brain is not a learning brain. Think about for next year ways to increase connection with students. Email me at [email protected] if you want to consult about ways to do that!

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Hi White River Staff. This is my last video with you. I cannot believe that we've been doing this for so long. I just want to say how incredibly humbled and proud I am to work with school staff like you. All the amazing things that you're doing, and have done, during this school closure to help kids learn, help kids feel cared for, it's just incredible I just wanted you to know that. Last video today. I want to talk a little bit about next year. So we don't know how school is going to be next year but there is something that we know for sure. When we're working with our kids next year we will know that they have all experienced what we call an adverse childhood experience. So, if you've done some training with me you will remember the study about adverse childhood experiences, or what we call ACES for short. But aces are just potentially traumatic events that occur during childhood. We often think of traumatic events as you know physical or sexual abuse, or neglect. But trauma is really anything that is scary, upsetting, and confusing. Where we feel a loss of control or not feeling potentially safe. So when all of our kids come to school in the fall they will have all experienced an adverse childhood experience, this covid experience. They all will have an an ACE score of one. We know that. Children who experience trauma can develop what we call trauma symptoms or PTSD post-traumatic stress disorder but most don't. Only about 20% of kids develop PTSD. So, why is that? We know that there are many things is that mitigate the risk from trauma and directly increase resiliency in kids. We can call those counter-ACES, so the things that counter the effects of adverse childhood experiences. Things like when kids like school. When they have a teacher or school staff who care about them. When they have opportunities to have fun in their life. Predictable home routine. Feeling comfortable with themselves. Having a caregiver that they feel safe with, and having good relationships with neighbors and friends. Now most of those things we don't have control over but many of them we do. So think about those things and a common thread is relationship. It's relationship with people - positive relationships. We know that for students to understand what you teach them, the concepts, and for them to produce work for you, they need to know that you care about them, you think about them, and you miss them. A stressed brain is not a learning brain. So this is my challenge to you for next year. Think about how you did during the school closure, and your teaching, and think about how can you incorporate more engagement, more relationship, in connection building into your work. It's going to be more important than ever to use those strategies to combat the effects of this adverse childhood experience that all of our students have had. If you're interested in consulting with me about how you might do that just drop me an email and I'll be around this summer to support you. Alright! I'll see you guys next year. Bye

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