Classroom 180: A Framework for Creating, Sustaining, and Assessing the Trauma-Informed Classroom

by Heather T. Forbes

Classroom180: A Framework for Creating, Sustaining, and Assessing the Trauma-Informed Classroom, by Heather T. Forbes, LCSW is a comprehensive roadmap of what it means to fully create, implement, and sustain a trauma-informed classroom from kindergarten through the twelfth grade. Additionally, Classroom180 includes an assessment tool, the Classroom180 Rubric, that can be used by administrators and others specialists who support teachers on the journey of becoming trauma-informed. Creating an effective and life-giving trauma-informed classroom goes far beyond a few fidgets and a calm corner. This comprehensive book will move you to the leading edge of being trauma-informed. Forbes has developed a system of five domains with a total of twenty-seven clearly defined components to give you an organizing system of where to start and how to continually create and sustain an effective classroom designed to meet all your students, especially those who have been impacted by trauma.

Genres: Education, Teaching, Nonfiction

337 pages, Paperback

Published March 27, 2020

About the author

Heather T. Forbes, LCSW, is the owner of the Beyond Consequences Institute. She is an internationally published author on the topics of raising children with difficult and severe behaviors, understanding the parent’s reactivity when challenged in the home, and working with challenging children in the classroom. Forbes lectures, consults, and coaches parents throughout the U.S. and internationally with families in crisis working to create peaceful and loving families. She is passionate about supporting families and professionals by bridging the gap between academic research and "when the rubber hits the road" parenting. Much of her experience and insight on understanding trauma, disruptive behaviors, developmental delays, and adoption-related issues comes from her direct mothering experience of her two internationally adopted children.

Reviews

[Cindy Raymond]

Great breakdown of a framework for implementing a trauma informed classroom.

[Angela Tucker]

An easy to understand framework for trauma-informed classrooms

[Megan McNaughton]

This book can be summed up in 3 words: know your audience. There. Now you don’t have to buy it.

[Jessica]

Didn’t learn a lot of new things in this, but it gave some suggestions of ways to handle students who are escalated and some new ways of wording things to be more trauma informed.