Mays Imad discusses trauma-informed teaching and learning on episode 335 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

My goal is to engage students and help them feel empowered and liberated.

I am able to recognize when they are triggered and when they feel disengaged. I also am able to recognize it in myself. We can’t give what we don’t have.
-Mays Imad

I want to acknowledge that we can heal from trauma.
-Mays Imad

My goal is to engage students and help them feel empowered and liberated.
-Mays Imad

We are not just thinking machines; we are feeling machines capable of thinking.
-Mays Imad

Resources Mentioned

Trauma-informed teaching webinar

Leveraging the Neuroscience of Now, by Mays Imad

Trauma-Informed Teaching and Learning

Teaching in Higher Ed