2021 Transforming Learning Conference

In Los Angeles County, there are more than 63,000 homeless students. Another 28,000 of the County’s children are in foster care, and close to 20,000 students in Los Angeles are incarcerated. When the team at Da Vinci Schools recognized the lack of adequate educational, social emotional, and material resources for these students, they knew they had to develop a new approach. Da Vinci RISE High School has been designed with the needs of youth experiencing housing instability, the foster care system and/or the juvenile justice system at the forefront. RISE works to provide an empowering education by partnering with service providers, leveraging student voice, and centering the school experience around youth who are most frequently written out of the larger educational narrative.

Workshop resources:  Creating School Culture: A Trauma Informed Approach

Attendees will learn strategies on how to be trauma informed, provide trauma informed care, recognize triggers that lead to negative behaviors, the importance of restorative justice, what culture means, being culturally aware/acceptive, making connections/building relationships, and the implementation/uses of circles in the classroom. Attendees will also learn about the importance of setting the culture/environment to be more student-centered, and the importance of increasing staff/student buy-in. There will be case studies and role plays to maximize learning.

Explore how a school model can be designed with personalization and customized learning at the forefront of daily operations. Learn strategies and best practices for using students’ data to drive a change in academic performance and success!