Description

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Drawing on research by the Yale Child Study Center, Mayes and Myers show us how trauma affects the developing brain and share classroom‑based strategies that use the power of students' and families' own stories to promote social-emotional well-being. Educators learn ways to leverage this student-focused, story-centered work to build key literacy skills.

About the Author

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Michele Myers, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University. As a holistic, social justice educator, Dr. Myers is committed to ensuring that all children receive a humanizing education that honors their histories, heritages, literacies, languages, cultures, family structures, and communities as assets for learning. Dr. Myers recently coauthored Revolutionary Love (Scholastic, 2020) with Kamania Wynter-Hoyt, Eliza Braden, Sanjuana Rodriguez, and Natasha Thornton.

Linda Mayes, M.D. is a developmental pediatrician in the Yale School of Medicine where she leads the Yale Child Study Center. Her scholarly work focuses on the impact of early adversity on children's development and on building programs to support skill development promoting resilience. An author of numerous scholarly articles, Mayes is also the author of The Educator’s Guide to Understanding Child Development (Scholastic, 2020).