The Impact of Student Homicide on Teachers: Stress and Coping While Teaching in Communities Experiencing Ongoing Violence

• In Event: 33.078 - Roundtable Session 11
  In Roundtable Session: 33.078-19 - Understanding Teacher Stress and Student Welfare Roundtable

Abstract

While many studies unveil family and community response to violence, no study yet has explored in-depth urban high school teachers’ cognitive appraisal process of and meaning-making response to the violent death of current and former students. This study defines the factors that contribute to high school urban educators’ coping and resilience after an experience of a student violent death. I present my research on the phenomenon of the stress and coping experiences of urban high school teachers in response to student violent, gang/gun related death.

Author

• Leora Wolf-Prusan, WestEd