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This course is designed to help educators understand the many complex issues students who come from adoptive backgrounds face and how that can affect them in the classroom. While often regarded as a compassionate and beautiful way to form a family, it comes with challenges that many are not aware of or have not had the opportunity to work with. The challenges some of these students may bring with them can have a major impact on the classroom and on that student’s learning.

This course will help educators go beyond the storybook idealism of adoption and help them understand the deeper issues facing these students including trauma, disability, identity, multiculturalism and equity as well as give concrete information and strategies to support these students academically and from a social-emotional perspective. In addition, by the end of the course, educators will be able to critically analyze their own practice and apply learning by creating, tailoring and implementing an adoption sensitive classroom review and plan.