Naming the Urgency: Trauma-Informed Practices in Higher Ed, with Jeanie Tietjen

Jeanie Tietjen unpacks trauma-informed practices in higher ed and why naming itself is a form of teaching on episode 626 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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Quotes from the episode

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Naming goes so far back in, even just in literary terms, the importance of naming.

-Jeanie Tietjen

There is still a very nascent and as yet relatively unarticulated understanding of how profoundly trauma, adversity, and violence adversely affect teaching and learning.

-Jeanie Tietjen

Many students have experienced traumas that are situated in educational settings, bullying experiences that are identity-based, that profoundly shape how they feel about the educational setting as a place.

-Jeanie Tietjen

Learning is very vulnerable. It involves being wrong, failing, failing in front of other people.

-Jeanie Tietjen

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Resources

• Naming the Urgency: The Importance of Trauma-Informed Practices in Community Colleges, by Jeanie Tietjen (chapter) (link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-92…)

• Trauma Informed Pedagogies: A Guide for Responding to Crisis and Inequality in Higher Education, edited by Phyllis Thompson and Janice Carello (link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-92705-9)

• The Institute for Trauma, Adversity, and Resilience in Higher Education (massbay.edu/trauma)

• Supporting the Whole Student: Mental Health, Substance Use, and Wellbeing in Higher Education (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) (nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26015/mental…)

• What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing, by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey (bookshop.org/a/79174/9781250223180)

• SAMHSA’s 6 Guiding Principles to a Trauma-Informed Approach (infographic) (samhsa.gov/resource/dbhis/infographic-6-guidin…)

• Mays Imad (sites.google.com/view/maysimad)

• Janice Carello (traumainformedteaching.blog/author/janicecarello)

• Bryan Dewsbury (linkedin.com/in/bryan-dewsbury-580b538)

• Tracie Addy and PAITE (Personal Assessment of Inclusive Teaching for Effectiveness) (tracieaddy.com)

• Education Northwest — research on trauma and attendance (Shannon Davidson) (educationnorthwest.org)

• Teaching Solidarity: Critical Race Reading, by Malini Johar Schueller (ucpress.edu/books/teaching-solidarity)

• The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (loa.org/books/237-the-essential-gwendolyn-brooks)

• Episode 357: Sandie Morgan and Warren Doody on Elizabeth Leonard’s interdisciplinary legacy (teachinginhighered.com/357)

• Bread and War: A Ukrainian Story of Food, Bravery and Hope, by Felicity Spector (bookshop.org/a/79174/9781914613784)

• Flour Power (Felicity Spector’s Substack) (fspector.substack.com)

• The Gap (Ira Glass), video by Daniel Sax on Vimeo (vimeo.com/85040589)

• The Gap — PKM in Action, by Bonni Stachowiak (teachinginhighered.com/2025/11/22/16b-pkm-in-a…)

• Poll Everywhere (polleverywhere.com)

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