Steve Graner
Steve Graner is the Project Director for NME, and his presentation will share how schools can use the Neurosequential Model in teacher and staff trainings, in their daily curriculum, and in partnership with the school and community therapeutic web. He will model NME principles as he teaches using music, movement, rhythm, and other sensory exercises that teachers may employ as they seek to help all students better understand and deal with the effects of trauma.
Introduction to the Neurosequential Model in Education
The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics was developed by Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D. to bring critical understanding of how to treat traumatized children based on the knowledge of how their brains grow and develop. His model is now being used by a variety of childcare professionals and residential treatment centers all over the world. Several years ago, Dr. Perry and the Neurosequential Network team decided to make a concerted effort to bring awareness of the NMT into both public and private day schools, and so the Neurosequential Model in Education was born. Two goals were established:
To educate all staff about developmental trauma and teach them how to apply that knowledge in interventions with children whose development has been compromised by adverse childhood experience.
To educate faculty and students in their own neurosequential development and apply that knowledge to the teaching/learning processes they employ.
Time: 10 AM EST