Tag Archives: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)

“Students who have experienced trauma and stress are not a small subpopulation of students.”

Posted on February 15, 2018 by Kate Stover

This book, like last week’s book, discusses “Adverse Childhood Experiences,” which is a set of 10 questions that assess the level of trauma kids experience.  These questions focus on exposure to mental illness, addiction, abandonment, hunger, physical abuse or danger, … Continue reading →

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“Sadly, the reality is that more and more students entering the educational pipeline have had curdled childhoods.”

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Kate Stover

It is not poverty per se that distinguishes these students, Karen Gross writes, but it’s a childhood burdened by “hunger, exposure to or experience with drugs, alcohol, abandonment, frequent moves, abuse, self-harm or harm of others.” Do we know which … Continue reading →

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