MLRC March Speaker Series: Ofelia Schepers

Trauma-informed teaching connects with issues like linguistic racism and the pressures of high‑stakes testing. Drawing on qualitative data from a longitudinal mixed-methods study of P–12 educators, it explores how teachers understand and use trauma-informed practices with multilingual students. While many teachers are more aware of the emotional side of learning a new language, few recognize how language discrimination or English‑only accountability systems can create trauma themselves.