Re-Engaging Students
in a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom

This course explores effective restart and recovery efforts in response to today’s student realities, including the ongoing impact of immigration policies and the stressors they can create for students and families. As student needs continue to evolve, instructional innovation and trauma-informed approaches are essential for fostering engagement and supporting learning.

Throughout the course, educators will examine mindsets and strategies that promote engagement in a calm classroom. Topics include goal setting despite learning disruption, the role of cell phones in student engagement, and fostering meaningful classroom conversations.

The course also focuses on three critical components of lesson design—The First Five Minutes, The Body of the Lesson, and The Last Five Minutes—with practical, classroom-ready strategies embedded in each section.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Explain the role of goal setting in increasing student engagement.


  • Analyze the impact of cell phone use on engagement and learning.


  • Identify the benefits of collaboration and structured classroom discourse.


  • Design lessons using purposeful, research-based engagement strategies.


  • Apply strategies to strengthen engagement during the first five minutes of instruction.


  • Identify opportunities to increase engagement throughout the body of a lesson.


  • Implement best practices for closing lessons using optimistic closure.


  • Apply a strengths-based, trauma-informed approach to lesson planning.


  • Use personal influence to shape positive mindsets related to engagement

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Email is the primary method of communication.
Messages will be responded to within 48 hours.

  •  Contact: info@choosecalm.com / vittoria.d@choosecalm.com

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