Educational Trauma: Examples from Testing to the School-To-Prison Pipeline

​1. Introduction2. Educational Trauma3. The State of Educational Affairs4. Trauma, Learning, and Memory5. The Effects of Trauma on Learning6. How poisonous is the pedagogy?7. Social Ecology: How Poisonous Pedagogy Sickens Students and Society8. PLAY9. Sexual and Gender/Puberty/Health Education10. Homework: Trauma for Students, Parents, Families, Teachers, and communities11. Standardized testin12. Value Added Models and Other Forms of Teacher Abuse13. Special and gifted education14. Bullying15. Corporal Punishment in School16. Higher Education: Where Educational Trauma begins and is perpetuated17. Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and chemical restraints18. The School-to-Prison Pipeline19. Strategies for Mitigating Educational Trauma20. Conclusion

Lee-Anne Gray is a psychologist, educator, author, and national speaker. In her private practice, she served as a forensic and clinical consulting psychologist to public defenders, families, students, and school districts throughout the state of California. Gray was also a TEDx organizer. Formerly an instructor of Psychology of Gender in the Departments of Psychology/Women’s Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, Gray founded The Connect Group in 2011, and continues to serve the global educational community with innovative professional development seminars in self-compassion, LGBTQ+ youth, Design Thinking, EmpathicEducation, as well as with transformational coaching.