Growing Roses in Concrete

Growing Roses in Concrete

Growing Roses in Concrete

TedxGoldenGateED – Jeff Duncan-Andrade

Uploaded by TEDx Talks Sep 27, 2011

13:30

Key Points: Jeff Duncan-Andrade chronicles the journey of his East Oakland High School’s desire to make schools relevant in the lives of their students in their community who live with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Meaning that not only do their experience trauma as a part of their daily lives, they continually re-enter the trauma year after year. This high school implements programs that first support their students in the lower levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs before introducing instruction that led to academic success.

What sets their system apart is that they do not focus on launching their students out of, and above their community, but rather they concentrate on improving the community in a manner that their students will not only succeed, but return and join the improvement efforts in their community.

Audience: Parents, educators, administrators in settings where students are experiencing acute, ambient and chronic trauma.

Relevance: With so many schools that have students with CPTSD, this is a model that can be looked at closely and applied to almost any setting. The speaker comments on the efficacy of laying the foundation of security from Maslow’s model, yet teacher prep programs never evaluate a teacher’s ability to implement best practice in this area.