 Teachers are feeling nervous. It's similar advice that I would give to a teacher trying to focus with a student. Ask them where they're at. What is already stressing them out? What is in their workload? How can we create a better environment? Who could be a buddy in the school and from the staff level who could support them? So much of our conversation about trauma is focusing on the individual students or the group of students and we forget to include that conversation should be about the staff as well. How is our staff's mental health? Where are we watching out for secondary trauma? Where are we giving staff permission to fail, to try something and then we'll have their back if it doesn't work out. Are we giving them permission to rest themselves? Do we have someone in the classroom we can take over if they need to step out? Like where are supports for the teachers? And so often if you find that your staff or your teachers are nervous about the idea of putting trauma-informed care in place then let's ask them what they need and have those conversations with them. Because often it's coming out of a place of fear, unknowing, being overwhelmed which are all actually symptoms of trauma itself. So let's not traumatize our staff by making them have trauma-informed care. Let's have the conversation about how can we as a staff as teachers support each other which then in turn will help us support the kids.