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Dr. Michael Gaskell on ”Leading Schools Through Trauma: A Data-Driven Approach to Helping Children Heal” Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning
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Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #172 with a veteran principal from New Jersey, USA, who has actively been writing about highly relevant solutions to problems in educational leadership since 2018, Michael Gaskell. Michael’s second book, Leading Schools Through Trauma[i], was just published this September, and his first book, Microstrategy Magic[ii], last fall.
Watch this interview on YouTube here https://youtu.be/V7sJTeFi-1c
Learn more about Dr. Gaskell here https://www.facebook.com/Mikesmicrominute/
See past Neuroscience Meets SEL Podcast Episodes here https://www.achieveit360.com/episodes/
On Today's Episode You Will Learn:
✔︎ Why we must NEVER give up on a struggling student.
✔︎ What we should ALL know about being trauma-informed in today's schools.
✔︎ What Dr. Gaskell's 3-STEP Process says about the importance of educator well-being.
✔︎ How to recognize trauma, and next steps for working with our students in the classroom.
✔︎ The Pygmalion Effect and why our belief in our students matters.
✔︎ What Dr. Gaskell would say to a new, first year teacher, who is struggling in the classroom.
✔︎ Putting Together a Trauma-Informed Plan in your school.
✔︎ The importance of surveys for Teacher Training and Implementation.
✔︎ Actionable Ideas That You Can Implement Immediately.
I'm Andrea Samadi, author, and educator from Toronto, Canada, now in Arizona, and like many of our listeners, have been fascinated with learning and understanding the science behind high performance strategies that we can use to improve our own productivity in our schools, our sports, and workplace environments. My vision is to bring the experts to you, share their books, resources, and ideas to help you to implement their proven strategies, whether you are a teacher working in the classroom or online, a student, or in the corporate environment.
When I first began presenting on the topic of stress, learning and the brain in 2016, in those early days of learning about how the brain works and responds to stress, I started to receive messages from teachers around the country (and the world) with questions about how to handle students suffering from the damaging effects of trauma. Educators would attend the webinar presentations I was offering, and their emails requesting help at the end of these presentations were urgent. Since starting this work, I have always replied personally to every single email that comes in, but the ones about trauma I know I didn’t have the best answers for, and I remember not knowing exactly how to answer these questions. I only knew from my viewpoint or experience working with behavioral students in my first-year teaching what worked for me back then, but I definitely lacked the strategies that are needed more than ever in our schools today, and understand now why being trauma-informed is so important.
I’m grateful that this podcast has not only given us a platform to what’s new and relevant, timely and important as it relates to educational neuroscience and leadership, but where else would we all gain access to the leaders around the world, working directly with the most innovative ideas in educational reform, productivity, and results. I want to thank you again, for all who tune in, and offer interview ideas and suggestions. The reach goes beyond those early days when we would host those webinars, now into over 154 countries, and we remain in the TOP 100 charts for iTunes in the category of education/how-to) in many of these countries around the world. This is only the beginning of our vision for this work so we can answer the questions that I know we all have, with the leading experts in this field.
Which brings us to our next guest, Michael Gaskell, who has a unique story, because he’s not only writing from his experience working in schools, and offering trauma-informed solutions from what he has seen working in his day t
Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #172 with a veteran principal from New Jersey, USA, who has actively been writing about highly relevant solutions to problems in educational leadership since 2018, Michael Gaskell. Michael’s second book, Leading Schools Through Trauma[i], was just published this September, and his first book, Microstrategy Magic[ii], last fall.
Watch this interview on YouTube here https://youtu.be/V7sJTeFi-1c
Learn more about Dr. Gaskell here https://www.facebook.com/Mikesmicrominute/
See past Neuroscience Meets SEL Podcast Episodes here https://www.achieveit360.com/episodes/
On Today's Episode You Will Learn:
✔︎ Why we must NEVER give up on a struggling student.
✔︎ What we should ALL know about being trauma-informed in today's schools.
✔︎ What Dr. Gaskell's 3-STEP Process says about the importance of educator well-being.
✔︎ How to recognize trauma, and next steps for working with our students in the classroom.
✔︎ The Pygmalion Effect and why our belief in our students matters.
✔︎ What Dr. Gaskell would say to a new, first year teacher, who is struggling in the classroom.
✔︎ Putting Together a Trauma-Informed Plan in your school.
✔︎ The importance of surveys for Teacher Training and Implementation.
✔︎ Actionable Ideas That You Can Implement Immediately.
I'm Andrea Samadi, author, and educator from Toronto, Canada, now in Arizona, and like many of our listeners, have been fascinated with learning and understanding the science behind high performance strategies that we can use to improve our own productivity in our schools, our sports, and workplace environments. My vision is to bring the experts to you, share their books, resources, and ideas to help you to implement their proven strategies, whether you are a teacher working in the classroom or online, a student, or in the corporate environment.
When I first began presenting on the topic of stress, learning and the brain in 2016, in those early days of learning about how the brain works and responds to stress, I started to receive messages from teachers around the country (and the world) with questions about how to handle students suffering from the damaging effects of trauma. Educators would attend the webinar presentations I was offering, and their emails requesting help at the end of these presentations were urgent. Since starting this work, I have always replied personally to every single email that comes in, but the ones about trauma I know I didn’t have the best answers for, and I remember not knowing exactly how to answer these questions. I only knew from my viewpoint or experience working with behavioral students in my first-year teaching what worked for me back then, but I definitely lacked the strategies that are needed more than ever in our schools today, and understand now why being trauma-informed is so important.
I’m grateful that this podcast has not only given us a platform to what’s new and relevant, timely and important as it relates to educational neuroscience and leadership, but where else would we all gain access to the leaders around the world, working directly with the most innovative ideas in educational reform, productivity, and results. I want to thank you again, for all who tune in, and offer interview ideas and suggestions. The reach goes beyond those early days when we would host those webinars, now into over 154 countries, and we remain in the TOP 100 charts for iTunes in the category of education/how-to) in many of these countries around the world. This is only the beginning of our vision for this work so we can answer the questions that I know we all have, with the leading experts in this field.
Which brings us to our next guest, Michael Gaskell, who has a unique story, because he’s not only writing from his experience working in schools, and offering trauma-informed solutions from what he has seen working in his day t
44 min