About the Course
Navigating Education with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) – Educator Edition is designed for teachers, school leaders, learning support professionals, and education staff who want to better understand how childhood adversity impacts learning, behaviour, relationships, and school engagement.
Many students arrive at school carrying experiences that educators cannot see. Trauma, neglect, family violence, parental mental illness, substance misuse, grief, loss, and other adverse childhood experiences can significantly affect a child's ability to regulate emotions, trust adults, engage with learning, and feel safe within educational settings.
This workshop explores the science behind ACEs and trauma while providing practical strategies educators can implement immediately within their classrooms and schools.
Participants will learn:
• What Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are and how they impact development
• How trauma affects the brain, nervous system, learning, memory, and behaviour
• Why behaviour should be viewed as communication rather than defiance
• How to build felt safety, trust, and connection within educational environments
• Practical classroom strategies that support regulation, engagement, and wellbeing
• The importance of relationships in improving educational outcomes
• How to respond to challenging behaviour through a trauma-informed lens
• Ways schools can create more inclusive and supportive learning environments
Throughout the workshop, Jade shares both professional insights and lived experiences to help participants develop a deeper understanding of the students they support every day.
This session is ideal for educators seeking practical, compassionate, and evidence-informed approaches that strengthen both student wellbeing and educational outcomes.
Your Instructor
Jade Wong
Jade Wong is an educator, learning support leader, foster carer, author, and speaker with over 15 years of experience supporting children and young people impacted by trauma, adversity, neurodivergence, and complex life experiences.
Having worked across mainstream education, alternative settings, learning support, and foster care, Jade brings a unique perspective that bridges educational theory with real-life practice. She has sat on both sides of the school meeting table, as a teacher, learning support professional, carer, and parent, and understands the challenges educators face when supporting students with significant emotional, behavioural, and relational needs.
Jade is passionate about helping educators move beyond behaviour management and develop deeper understanding of the experiences that shape student engagement, wellbeing, learning, and relationships. Her presentations are known for being practical, honest, compassionate, and grounded in both lived experience and evidence-informed practice.
Jade is the founder of The Learning Support Hub and author of Beyond the Behaviour.