Classroom, with a blackboard asking students about their experiences with cancer.

[Teaching Unpacked] Trauma-Informed Experiential Learning

Trauma-informed experiential learning takes abstract concepts and makes them actionable for students. Not only does this learning and teaching methodology lead to better learning outcomes but, informed by the effects of traumatic experiences, it provides learners with emotional safety in a learning environment.

Kim Steutermann Rogers ‘07

Kim Steutermann Rogers ‘07 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) published the article The world’s oldest known wild bird just turned 70—why she’s so special, in National Geographic; an essay My Old…

Anna Scotti ‘06

Anna Scotti’s ‘06 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) first book of poems, Bewildered by All This Broken Sky was released by Lightscatter Press on April 30, 2021. It was the winner…

Laurel Dodge ‘93

Laurel Dodge ‘93 (New England, MS) is the newly hired gallery manager for River Arts in Damariscotta. Read the full story in the Boothbay Register or in the Village Soup.

Julia Ismae ‘12

Julia Ismae ‘12 (Seattle, BA Liberal Studies) co-authored the article, “It Takes Heart, The Experiences and Working Conditions of Caring Educators” which was published in Radical Teacher, No 119, Spring…