Cissy ... YOU are a leader in systems change ... through your writing - and so much more!!
My personal experience is really around special education advocacy .... kind of David vs Goliath ..... each time we won, it really felt like a win for all students with learning differences!
Professionally, through my work with Sonoma County ACEs Connection, over time (relationship building), a few internal champions emerged within the Office of Education and they brought ACEs and Trauma Informed concepts into their work. Let me know if you'd like an e-introduction.
Several times I was asked to speak (slides attached, use as you wish) at a school counselor meeting / at a school staff in-service / to school nurses / and eventually asked to speak at a mandatory all staff meeting just before the school year started, which given the timing and the stress those folks felt - the concepts and mindful practices really resonated. One of the science teachers was the husband of my coworker (at the time, I did not know that!) and when he came home he told her about what he learned and how it made so much sense to him! That was pretty nice!
Eventually .... this document was published:
ACES Bulletin Sonoma County Office of Education COPY ATTACHED
From the document ...
Trauma-Informed Teaching
Knowing Our Students’ Stories and Fostering Resilience
Recent social and scientific research calls upon educators to provide students with not only academic learning, but also the social and emotional tools needed to be successful in life. We once thought subjects like math and history to be disconnected from basic social skills and emotional resilience. Now, however, science is showing that all these factors are inter-related.
Click here to read an ARTICLE article posted on Sonoma County ACEs Connection site.
I hope this is helpful!
Karen