trauma-informed education Archives - Summer Owens S.O. What! https://summerowens.com/tag/trauma-informed-education/ S.O. What! Sun, 27 Jul 2025 01:29:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://i0.wp.com/summerowens.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cropped-Summer-Owens-S.O.-What.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 trauma-informed education Archives - Summer Owens S.O. What! https://summerowens.com/tag/trauma-informed-education/ 32 32 152051023 Back to School, Back to Reality: Why Our Students Need This Literacy and Life Skills Curriculum Now More Than Ever https://summerowens.com/back-to-school-back-to-reality-why-our-students-need-a-literacy-and-life-skills-curriculum-now-more-than-ever/ https://summerowens.com/back-to-school-back-to-reality-why-our-students-need-a-literacy-and-life-skills-curriculum-now-more-than-ever/#respond Sun, 27 Jul 2025 01:22:35 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=24262 As the school bells ring and students walk through the doors of schools across the country, backpacks are full of new notebooks, sharpened pencils, and hopeful expectations. But too many of those same students are carrying something heavier—trauma, uncertainty, fear, and deep emotional wounds no school supply can fix. I’ve spent over a decade in […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/back-to-school-back-to-reality-why-our-students-need-a-literacy-and-life-skills-curriculum-now-more-than-ever/feed/ 0 24262 Turning 46: How One Birthday Sparked a Movement to Help Others Overcome Obstacles https://summerowens.com/turning-46-how-one-birthday-sparked-a-movement-to-help-others-overcome-obstacles/ https://summerowens.com/turning-46-how-one-birthday-sparked-a-movement-to-help-others-overcome-obstacles/#respond Sat, 24 May 2025 19:07:45 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=24207 From One Birthday to a Bigger Purpose What if one day—one birthday—changed the entire course of your life? I was 15 years old when that happened to me. A birthday that should’ve been filled with carefree joy ended with the kind of news that would force me to grow up overnight. It was a moment […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/turning-46-how-one-birthday-sparked-a-movement-to-help-others-overcome-obstacles/feed/ 0 24207 How One Literacy and Life Skills Program Is Transforming Classrooms and Student Lives https://summerowens.com/how-one-literacy-and-life-skills-program-is-transforming-classrooms-and-student-lives/ https://summerowens.com/how-one-literacy-and-life-skills-program-is-transforming-classrooms-and-student-lives/#respond Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:00:52 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=24128 Something powerful just happened at Hillcrest High School… and it’s exactly what so many schools need right now. After a semester of using the S.O. What! Literacy, Life Skills, and Character Education Program, I had the chance to visit the students who had been reading my book and going through the lessons. The moment I walked […]

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