Educating Teachers About Trauma Informed Practice Micheline S. Malow, Ph.D. Manhattanville College Teachers are tasked with managing an array of social-emotional and behavioral difficulties in the classroom; most of which they feel unprepared for. In an effort to define the difficulties children bring to school, teachers sometimes label students as disengaged, unmotivated, inattentive, and/or disruptive. With those labels as a starting point, teachers then seek to remediate t