Teacher Support Summit 2026 | Wendt Center for Loss & Healing

A Focus on Support: Grief and Trauma Informed Care in Schools

Please join The Wendt Center for Loss and Healing’s Resilient Scholars Team for a day focused on school staff support and preparation for the school year, with a focus on grief and trauma informed practices in support of students and staff.

Date: Friday, October 30, 2026

Time (may be adjusted): 8:30am-4:00pm, lunch provided

Location: The Wendt Center for Loss and Healing, 4201 Connecticut Avenue NW, Ste. 300, Washington, DC 20008

Cost: Free

This day long summit will offer three supportive school-based components:

Grief and Trauma Informed Classrooms: An expanded version of our Grief and Trauma Informed Classrooms curriculum, a workshop that will inform staff, through a developmental lens, how grief and trauma manifest and impact engagement and learning. Specific strategies for establishing grief and trauma supportive classrooms will be provided along with tools for supporting students, in the classroom, who are impacted by grief/trauma.

Creativity & Collaboration Space: A dedicated space for school staff to engage in community with one another and Resilient Scholars clinicians to reflect on the information and strategies discussed in the grief and trauma informed classrooms. Materials will be provided for staff to embrace their creativity and create materials to support the unique needs of their students and classrooms. Participants will take these materials with them in support of the upcoming school year.

Teacher Wellness: Our summit will conclude with a space wholly reserved for discussion of teacher wellness and support. This final session will engage teachers with reflections on personal activation in and out of the classroom, challenges encountered and exploration of ways to support ourselves and one another.

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