Naming the Urgency: Trauma-Informed Practices in Higher Ed
<p>Jeanie Tietjen unpacks trauma-informed practices in higher ed and why naming itself is a form of teaching on episode 626 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.<br />
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<h2>Quotes from the episode</h2>
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<p>Naming goes so far back in, even just in literary terms, the importance of naming.<br />
-Jeanie Tietjen</p>
<p>There is still a very nascent and as yet relatively unarticulated understanding of how profoundly trauma, adversity, and violence adversely affect teaching and learning.<br />
-Jeanie Tietjen</p>
<p>Many students have experienced traumas that are situated in educational settings, bullying experiences that are identity-based, that profoundly shape how they feel about the educational setting as a place.<br />
-Jeanie Tietjen</p>
<p>Learning is very vulnerable. It involves being wrong, failing, failing in front of other people.<br />
-Jeanie Tietjen<br />
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<h2>Resources</h2>
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<li><a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-92705-9_10">Naming the Urgency: The Importance of Trauma-Informed Practices in Community Colleges, by Jeanie Tietjen (chapter)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-92705-9"><em>Trauma Informed Pedagogies: A Guide for Responding to Crisis and Inequality in Higher Education</em>, edited by Phyllis Thompson and Janice Carello</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.massbay.edu/trauma">The Institute for Trauma, Adversity, and Resilience in Higher Education</a></li>
<li><a href="https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26015/mental-health-substance-use-and-wellbeing-in-higher-education-supporting">Supporting the Whole Student: Mental Health, Substance Use, and Wellbeing in Higher Education (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/79174/9781250223180"><em>What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing</em>, by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.samhsa.gov/resource/dbhis/infographic-6-guiding-principles-trauma-informed-approach">SAMHSA’s 6 Guiding Principles to a Trauma-Informed Approach (infographic)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/maysimad">Mays Imad</a></li>
<li><a href="https://traumainformedteaching.blog/author/janicecarello/">Janice Carello</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-dewsbury-580b538/">Bryan Dewsbury</a></li>
<li><a href="https://tracieaddy.com/">Tracie Addy and PAITE (Personal Assessment of Inclusive Teaching for Effectiveness)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://educationnorthwest.org/">Education Northwest — research on trauma and attendance (Shannon Davidson)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/books/teaching-solidarity/"><em>Teaching Solidarity: Critical Race Reading</em>, by Malini Johar Schueller</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.loa.org/books/237-the-essential-gwendolyn-brooks/"><em>The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks</em></a></li>
<li><a href="https://teachinginhighered.com/357">Episode 357: Sandie Morgan and Warren Doody on Elizabeth Leonard’s interdisciplinary legacy</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/79174/9781914613784"><em>Bread and War: A Ukrainian Story of Food, Bravery and Hope</em>, by Felicity Spector</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fspector.substack.com/">Flour Power (Felicity Spector’s Substack)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://vimeo.com/85040589">The Gap (Ira Glass), video by Daniel Sax on Vimeo</a></li>
<li><a href="https://teachinginhighered.com/2025/11/22/16b-pkm-in-action/">The Gap — PKM in Action, by Bonni Stachowiak</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.polleverywhere.com/">Poll Everywhere</a></li>
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