In this mixed methods dissertation study, I used design-based research (DBR; Brown, 1992; Cobb et al., 2003; The Design-Based Research Collective, 2003) to develop and refine a Tier 1 professional development (PD) intervention in trauma-informed teaching practices. This intervention was implemented with all full-time educators at one school and focused on Tier 1 practices to be implemented for and applicable to all students. I engaged in ongoing collaboration with educators at Oakdale Elementary School, a suburban Massachusetts school, to study and refine this intervention. I conducted ongoing qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, which informed both the intervention design and study of process and outcomes. This study investigated how and why the intervention evolved over time, the acceptability of the intervention, shifts in thinking and teaching practices, and how those shifts were facilitated.
Over the course of implementation, 10 collaborative design decisions were made to create an intervention that addressed the needs and desires of Oakdale’s educators as well as the structural affordances and constraints of PD implementation at Oakdale. The intervention contained three after-school PD trainings: (1) Secondary Traumatic Stress and Self-Care, (2) Trauma 101: Supporting Students who Have Experienced Trauma, and (3) Educational Impacts of the Opioid Epidemic. Educators rated the intervention favorably: 88% of year-end survey participants were very satisfied with the trainings and 94% felt that the trainings would be very useful in other schools. In addition, Oakdale’s educators reported shifts in their thinking (e.g., increased empathy) and teaching practices (e.g., enacting proactive strategies) that they attributed to the trainings. Finally, based on the data collected in this study, I developed a theoretical model of how to support educators’ learning and implementation of trauma-informed teaching practices. This theoretical model identifies contextual, relational, and procedural elements of the intervention that participants reported to facilitate learning. This model can be tested in future studies of trauma-informed teaching PD and, if substantiated, used to guide additional intervention design. Implications for policy and practice are discussed. / 2023-05-13T00:00:00Z
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/42548 |
| Date | 14 May 2021 |
| Creators | Koslouski, Jessica B. |
| Contributors | Green, Jennifer Greif |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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