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NERD_0286 Warnings Against The Use Of ACE Scores in Trauma Informed Schools with Alex Winninghoff

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Strategies and responses for working with young children who have experienced or are experiencing trauma are vital for early care and education practitioners to understand–why would we need to be warned about our use of ACE scores? Instructional coach and PhD candidate Alex Winninghoff joins Heather Bernt-Santy and Lizz Nolasco to discuss her article, “Trauma By Numbers: Warnings Against the Use of ACE Scores in Trauma Informed Schools.” 

Read the article here: https://educate.bankstreet.edu/occasional-paper-series/vol2020/iss43/4/

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One response to “NERD_0286 Warnings Against The Use Of ACE Scores in Trauma Informed Schools with Alex Winninghoff”

  1. Stephanie Goloway

    Thanks for this thought-provoking discussion. Although for me, ACEs and ACE score have never been synonymous, lots of great points were made about why using the scores as a measure is bad idea. I do, however, take issue with Ms. Winninghoff’s assertion that that resilience is a “soft concept,” a “feel good word,” and “doesn’t point us to our own responsibility to address the conditions” that cause adverse experiences.

    The decades-long research of Dr. Ann Masten at the University of Minnesota, along with the vast neuroscience work from The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, as well as Devereux’s Center for Resilient Children, offer substantial evidence for the protective factors for resilience.

    These include the kinds of societal structures Ms. Winninghoff addresses, but also offer highly actionable strategies that all teachers can (and should) universally implement to nurture resilience and offset the toxic stress children experience which impacts brain development.

    Unlike SEL curricula (sorry for the overgeneralization…), these protective factors don’t have to be packaged and assessed. Masten calls them “ordinary magic” because they are the core of both healthy parenting/caregiving (and actually “humaning”), as well as developmentally appropriate, child-focused, play-based, culturally-attuned practice.

    I sincerely hope that resilience never has to be shoved into the box of a metric in order to be acknowledged, valued, and used as the primary focus of our work with children. The research is there. The opportunity is vast. And understanding the protective factors for resilience absolutely points us to our own responsibility to address the conditions, both micro and macro, that create a world where ACEs exist.

    Thank you, as always, for a great podcast!

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