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Thomas Brunzell

Melbourne, Australia

Dr Tom Brunzell (MST, EdM, PhD) has experience as a teacher, school leader, researcher and education advisor. Currently he is the Director of Education at Berry Street and Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne Graduate School of Education. Tom presents internationally on topics of transforming school culture, student engagement, trauma-informed practice, wellbeing and positive psychology, and effective school leadership. His research at the University of Melbourne investigates trauma-informed strengths-based classroom strategies; and both the negative impacts of secondary traumatic stress and the positive impacts of wellbeing on teachers and leaders working towards educational equity in their communities. His book: Creating Trauma-informed Strengths Based Classrooms, co-authored with Dr Jacolyn Norrish, is available through Hachette/Jessica Kingsley Publishers, UK, and booksellers world-wide.

Publications

  • Trauma-Informed Positive Education: Using Positive Psychology to Strengthen Vulnerable Students
  • Teacher Perspectives When Learning Trauma-Informed Practice Pedagogies: Stories of Meaning Making at Work
  • Why Do You Work with Struggling Students? Teacher Perceptions of Meaningful Work in Trauma-Impacted Classrooms
  • Healing and Growth in the Classroom: A Positive Education for Trauma-Affected and Disengaging Students
  • A trauma-informed positive education: Persepctives on hope, healing, and growth
  • Trauma-informed flexible learning: Classrooms that strengthen regulatory abilities
  • Trauma-Aware Practice and Positive Education
  • Healing and growth in the classroom: A positive education for trauma-affected and disengaging students
  • Special Issue: Trauma-informed Practice in Schools. Teacher Learning Network Journal
  • Trauma-informed Educational Leadership
  • Trauma-informed teacher wellbeing: A new model for teacher wellbeing to support teachers contending with the primary and secondary impacts of workplace stressors and exposure to students contending with adverse childhood experiences
  • Trauma-informed teacher strategies to increase engagement, achievement and wellbeing: Reframing wellbeing through an integrated whole-school approach
  • Why Do You Work with Struggling Students? Teacher Perceptions of Meaningful Work in Trauma-Impacted Classrooms
  • Trauma-Informed Integral Leadership: Leading School Communities With a Systems-Aware Approach
  • Trauma-Informed Teacher Wellbeing: Teacher Reflections within Trauma-Informed Positive Education
  • Creating Trauma-Informed, Strengths-Based Classrooms Teacher Strategies for Nurturing Students' Healing, Growth, and Learning
  • Meaningful work for teachers within a trauma-informed positive education model
  • Trauma-informed strategies for pre-service teachers: Preparing graduate teachers for our new normal in order to promote student engagement, healing and learning
  • Teaching with strengths in trauma-affected students: A new approach to healing and growth in the classroom.
  • Editorial: Trauma-informed education
  • Frontiers in Education, Special Issue: Trauma-Informed Education
  • The Eucalypt Way: Trauma-informed education for Australia
  • Shifting Teacher Practice in Trauma-Affected Classrooms: Practice Pedagogy Strategies Within a Trauma-Informed Positive Education Model
  • Case Study 2: Wiyal* Primary School
  • Two Schools Working Together in a Community-Wide Approach
  • Introduction to Trauma-Informed Education
  • Case Study 1: Garron* Secondary College
  • Intervention with Trauma-Informed Positive Education (TIPE)
  • Implementing trauma-informed pedagogies for school change: Shifting schools from reactive to proactive
  • Trauma-informed Educational Leadership (TIEL) Model

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Co-workers & collaborators

  • HELEN STOKES

  • Judith Howard

  • Meegan Brown

  • Christina Dawson

  • Lyra L'Estrange

  • Grace Langton

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