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.

21st century neuroscience, learning and behavior : not doing more-doing differently / William Steele -- On becoming a self-reg haven / Stuart Shanker and Susan Hopkins -- Multi sensory practices for all : changing physiology, behavior and performance / Roberta Sherf and Chris Bye -- Students with sensory processing challenges : classroom strategies / Lindsey Biel -- Brief connections that matter (CTMs) : student-teacher relationship / William Steele -- Growth mindsets for learning : effective effort / Emily Diehl -- Teacher resilience, sustained effectiveness, and self-care / William Steele -- In school neurological reparative therapy for traumatized students / David Ziegler -- A vision for a trauma-sensitive school / Susan F. Cole, Anne Eisner, Michael Gregory and Joel Ristuccia -- 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.