Teaching · Related Services

Make the classroom safer for every student, on purpose.

Mark twelve everyday practices, two for each of the six principles of a trauma-informed approach. The checklist shows where you are strong and what to try first.

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The practice reflection

One reflection per classroom and date. The example is made up.

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What you finish with: A score for each principle and the classroom, the strongest principle and the one to work on, the practices to try first and a one-month goal.
Who it is for: Teachers reflecting on their own practice, and school psychologists or counselors observing with a teacher’s agreement.
Format: Browser checklist. Saved reflections; printed with the summary or as a blank form; CSV; export and import a file.
Access: $5 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Related Services toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives: The Related Services space in Caveat Teaching.
Support: Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.

Drawn for this page. Trauma-sensitive practice is ordinary good teaching done on purpose for every student, whatever their history.

How to use it

Start a reflection with a classroom code and the date.
Mark how often you see each practice.
Read the principle scores and the practices to try.
Write one goal for the next month and how you will know.
Copy the reflection to a new date in a month and mark it again.

Reflect on practice

How the checklist is built

Why principles, not programs

SAMHSA describes a trauma-informed approach as six principles rather than a fixed set of steps. The practices here are classroom versions of each, useful for every student and essential for some.

No histories

Teachers do not need to know which students have experienced trauma to teach this way, and this page never asks. Concerns about a particular student go to your school mental health staff.

What this is not

An evaluation of a teacher or an assessment of a student.

Sources

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (2014). SAMHSA’s Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach (HHS Publication No. SMA 14-4884): the six principles.
National Child Traumatic Stress Network, Schools Committee (2017). Creating, Supporting, and Sustaining Trauma-Informed Schools: A System Framework.
Cole, S. F., et al. (2013). Helping Traumatized Children Learn, Volume 2. Massachusetts Advocates for Children, Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative.
National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments, Trauma-Sensitive Schools Training Package (U.S. Department of Education).

The example classroom is made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.