Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, tried a new approach to school discipline and saw suspensions drop 85%. It went viral – twice — with more than 700,000 page views. The Children’s Resilience Initiative (CRI) organized a group of 30 people from Walla Walla, including Sporleder (then Principal of Lincoln High School) to attend a workshop. CRI creates awareness about childhood adversity and encourages all sectors of the community -business, faith-based, corrections, law enforcement, education, etc.- to integrate trauma-informed and resilience-based practices.
Source: Jane Ellen Stevens. “Resilience practices overcome students’ ACEs in trauma-informed high school, say the data.” May 31, 2015. https://acestoohigh.com/2015/05/31/resilience-practices-overcome-students-aces-in-trauma-informed-high-school-say-the-data/