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Trauma and Learning Cohort Forming

Reading Public Schools in collaboration with Stoneham Public Schools and Lesley University, has successfully scheduled, and is hosting a brand-new graduate certificate cohort in Trauma and Learning.

Have you heard about this Trauma Program?  Are you interested in finding out what it is all about?  Well here is your chance to start in on the FIRST Trauma Course.

If you are interested in attending, please fill out the attached registration form and send the completed registration form, and check for $500, made out to Lesley University, to Lauren Sabella through inter-office mail at RMHS.  Or please email the completed registration form to Lauren.Sabella@Reading.K12.MA.US and indicate that you will pay Lesley directly by credit card.   Below please find the course details.

Course I:  The Impact of Trauma on Learning: An Overview

(This is course I in the four-course series).

“This course examines the impact of traumatic experience on student learning (both academic and social / emotional) and provides a structured approach to individual and school wide interventions. The biological, environmental, and sociocultural aspects of traumatic experience will be presented, and participants will analyze the effects of their work with students impacted by trauma on their own well being (secondary trauma).” 

This is the first of four courses that you need to complete to earn your graduate certificate in Trauma and Learning.  Trauma II-III, and IV will be scheduled out on the following tentative timeline:

Tentative Timing of Course Progression
Course I:  Spring 2020 and/or Summer 2020
Course II:  Fall 2020
Course III:  Spring 2021 or summer 2021
Course IV:  Fall 2021

Trauma I will run Wednesdays, 3:30PM-6:30PM
Dates and Locations:

Starts Wednesday, January 29th at Stoneham Central Middle School Media Center.

The remaining dates will run:

  • Wednesday, February 12th
  • Wednesday, February 26th
  • Wednesday, March 11th
  • Wednesday, March 25th
  • SNOW DATE- Wednesday, April 1st

Completed registration forms and payment are due to Lauren Sabella by January 13th 2019.

Registration Form for Trauma 1 Course

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