Optimizing Learning Outcomes provides answers for the most pressing questions that mental health professionals, teachers, and administrators are facing in today's schools. Chapters provide a wide array of evidence-based resources-including links to video segments-that promote understanding, discussion, and successful modeling. Accessible how-to trainings provide readers with multiple sensory-based practices that improve academic success and promote behavioral regulation. Clinicians and educators will come away from this book with a variety of tools for facilitating brain-based, trauma-sensitive learning for all, realizing improved learning outcomes, improving teacher satisfaction, and reducing disciplinary actions and suspensions.

About the Editor Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction 1.21st Century Neuroscience, Learning and Behavior: Not Doing More-Doing Differently William Steele 2. On Becoming a Self-Reg Haven Stuart Shanker and Susan Hopkins 3.Multi Sensory Practices for All: Changing Physiology, Behavior and Performance Roberta Sherf and Chris Bye 4.Students With Sensory Processing Challenges: Classroom Strategies Lindsey Biel 5.Brief Connections That Matter (CTMs): Student-Teacher Relationship William Steele 6. Growth Mindsets for Learning: Effective Effort Emily Diehl 7. Teacher Resilience, Sustained Effectiveness, and Self-Care William Steele 8. In School Neurological Reparative Therapy For Traumatized Students David Ziegler 9. A Vision for a Trauma-Sensitive School Susan F. Cole, Anne Eisner, Michael Gregory and Joel Ristuccia 10.Compassionate Schools: Responding to Kids Impacted by Adversity, Trauma, and Toxic Stress Ron Hertel and Susan O. Kincaid Appendices: Additional Sensory Processing Strategies Lindsey Biehl Trauma Related Intervention Considerations for IEP/504 Plan: Case Example Kathie Ritchie Additional Teaching & Learning Resources Kathie Ritchie Compassionate Schools Resources Ron Hertel and Susan O. Kincaid