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Teachers often struggle to address mass traumatic events in class

  • Written by Jennifer Greif Green, Associate Professor of Special Education, Boston University
Teachers often struggle to address mass traumatic events in classEducators get little to no training in how to deal with traumatic events.Pixelimage / Getty Images

After the Paris attacks of 2015 – a series of attacks in which gunmen opened fire on nightspots and a concert hall in Paris – a U.S.-based high school teacher of French described her failure to discuss the attacks in class as a “lost...

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