“If you’re fearful, if you’re anxious, if you’re distracted about
something that’s happened to you, you literally can’t learn. Your
brain shuts down,” LPI President Linda Darling-Hammond explains
in this
article and accompanying video on trauma-informed
instruction. This story is part of a series by
KQED’s Mindshift and Edutopia and features videos from
Edutopia’s “How
Learning Happens” series.