Know Me, Know My Name
A program called, Know Me, Know My Name, is a cost-free way for educators to identify and make contact with children who are in danger of slipping through the cracks at school.
Paper Tigers
The documentary Paper Tigers is an intimate look into the lives of selected students attending an alternative school specializing in educating traumatized youth. The film examines the inspiring promise of Trauma Informed Communities – a movement showing great promise in healing youth struggling with the dark legacy of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).
Partnership for Resilience
IEA’s Partnership for Resilience, an effort of educators, doctors and social services, to identify students who come to school carrying a heavy weight from the outside world and finding ways to help them cope and succeed. The partnership is working to bring the message of trauma-informed education to school buildings and districts across Illinois.
Resilience, The Movie
Resilience and Paper Tigers were made as a documentary duo, providing complementary perspectives on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and what is being done about them. Resilience is a one-hour film that delves into the science of ACEs and the birth of a new movement to treat and prevent Toxic Stress.
Student Discipline
Senate Bill 100 Resources & Podcast
A list of downloadable resources for SB100 from the IEA RA. Also an IEA podcast about the new student discipline reform law, otherwise known as Public Act 99456.
Context and Making Student Discipline Reform Work
A slide deck reviewing the background of why student discipline reform was made in 2015 through SB 100, what the new law provides, and how local associations can engage members in student discipline issues.
Paul Gamboa Presentation at the 2017 IEA RA (video)
A personal story of implicit bias and the impact for an educator.
Paul Klenck Presentation at the 2017 IEA RA (video)
Why the state passed student discipline reform and what locals and members can do to make reform work.
Student Discipline – Making Reform Work
A flyer that provides a step-by-step guide for locals to engage members and school boards on student discipline issues.
More Resources
Rebuilding for a New Normal
A Study of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Trauma-Responsive Schools and Key Recommendations for Communities
Relationships That Heal
When children experience trauma during developmental stages, it can have lasting implications.
