Exploration of Student Marginalization

Service Description

Target Skill Level: Intermediate TiD CEUs: 2.5 IDCEC CEUs: 2.5 Presenter: Christine Cowart Course Length: 2.5 hours Trauma-informed Design (TiD) is a practice informed by our growing awareness and demands ethical, respectful, and supportive practices. As a training based in the second sphere of the TiD Framework, this session focuses on trauma-informed approaches to the design process. This is accomplished, first, by illustrating the depth of understanding designers should strive to develop through their population research, and then, by addressing how we can adjust our approach to the research process, to ensure that we do not cause harm throughout our interactions. The session opens by exploring the link between marginalization and trauma, and the impact they have on education. Next, it examines the factors contributing to the marginalization of students from specific communities or who have had certain experiences. With this information as background, the session then considers how we can adjust our approach to the design process as a result. It explores how human-centered design methods can help designers lead students and other invested parties through the design process with minimal risk of harm. Participants will learn how careful risk assessment and mitigation, trauma-informed language, and regulation support can help them create schools that foster strength and resiliency, while protecting participants throughout the design process.