‘Educators as First Responders’ Is Now Available!
My first book is officially published! Educators as First Responders is a comprehensive, hands-on guide to adolescent development and mental health for teachers and other educators of students in grades 6-12.
It looks at today’s schools as the forefront of supporting adolescents with increasingly complex, challenging psychosocial needs. Moreover, students are more likely to seek a trusted teacher, advisor, or coach for support than to confide directly in a parent or school counselor.
Succinct and accessible, this book provides tips and strategies that teachers, coaches, nurses, counselors, and other school professionals can put into immediate use with students in varying degrees of distress. These evidence-based practices and real-world classroom examples will help you understand the “whole student,” a developing individual shaped not just by parental pressure or psychiatric diagnosis but by school climate, community, systemic injustice, and identity across categories such as race, gender, and class.