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Dr. Sadin has served as a special education teacher, a gifted education teacher, and a building administrator.  Most recently she served as a director of special education.  Dr. Sadin has been vice-president of her local School Board and is recognized as a Master School Board Member. She has conducted research on the perceptions of teachers working to create trauma-informed classrooms.  Dr. Sadin is a published author and has produced numerous webinars on children with attachment trauma in schools. Currently, Dr. Sadin works a director of exceptional education and as an education consultant and developmental trauma expert providing professional development to school districts, municipal service providers and parents.  Nationally, Dr. Sadin is a highly sought-after keynote speaker and conference presenter. Her Trauma Guide Series of books are available on her website, www.traumasensitive.com.

• Building resilient students
• Hope - Start and end with the people.
• Over half of teachers are seeking to leave!
• We are doing it to ourselves.
• We have to start with what happened to us?
• Resilience is the ability to adapt and overcome challenges.
• Google Meet rooms open.
• Choose 1 issues
• The flight of teachers from the profession.
• What are the components that a school leader needs to create a resilient school?
• Deeply rooted in social justice and forgive yourself.
• Google Scholar - science of hope - When you say the word hope, you begin what they define as hope.
• Use the word Hope
• Then laugh.

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