Alex Shevrin Venet

Check out my new post on Edutopia, focusing on how we can create safety when in the midst of ongoing crisis.

Helping Students Feel Safe in an Uncertain World There’s no magic strategy for living through hard times, but educators can support students by creating spaces that feel safe and joyful.

Finally!! 🎉You can now listen to Becoming an Everyday Changemaker! Available anywhere you get your audiobooks.

If you've read BAEC, drop a comment--what did you think and why should teachers pick it up this summer? 👀

I'm so excited to learn together this summer! 🌞 Check out registration pages for full dates and details and let me know if you have any questions!

Way back in 2022, and I wrote a really cool chapter about how trauma is a complex concept and how teachers (particularly ELA teachers) can use a multidimensional trauma lens in their work. I was revisiting this recently and I thought...this was such a cool chapter and it deserves to be read more! So I finally scanned it and dropped it into my Google drive. Linking it in my profile. If you want to read a non-wonkily-scanned version and also a bunch of other cool writing about trauma-informed teaching, you can buy the volume from NCTE: search for Special Issues, Volume 2: Trauma-Informed Teaching.

AI refusal is trauma-informed and human-centered. A little paired texts, from my Threads and from the brilliant Audrey Watters in her newsletter.

This month's workshop! Link in my bio and I'll share to stories.

As long as I have time I ALWAYS want to come to your book club! If you're reading either of my books with other educators this summer (or anytime), invite me to drop in! I always have so much fun with these and I love getting to chat with you all.

(Note- this is just for an informal q&a sesh, 30 minutes at the most. If you're looking for a more extensive PD, let's talk!)

Next workshop coming up!

Are students truly "unmotivated" or????

New publication! What Teachers Need is out today and I contributed a chapter on my fave, unconditional positive regard. Big idea: when we humanize our students, we humanize ourselves.

Lots of gems across the whole book!