Biographical note

Dyane Carrere, M.Ed., Trauma Informed School Practices Consultant, LLC Owner, DCarrere Consulting, LLC. Dyane's 40 -year career in education has taken many forms - teacher, administrator, adjunct faculty member, consultant and staff developer. Throughout this time, her work has concentrated on supporting students whose struggles have placed them at the fringes of school success. Dyane has worked in preschool through secondary settings as well as with families and service agencies focusing on developing compassionate, creative, effective behavior supports. She has both taught and been a guest speaker at the college level, bringing her lens on behavior to pre-service educators and Masters-level educators. During the last fifteen years of her career, Dyane has focused on supporting schools in understanding trauma and developing practices that support students with trauma histories. She has shared this work with others through local, state and national forums. Dyane believes that the educators and students with whom she has had the opportunity to learn from and with have been the greatest gifts of her professional life. They have profoundly informed her work through their insights, their intentions, their feedback and their stories.

Wynne Kinder, M.Ed., Educator and Author, Wellness Works in Schools. Wynne's teaching career spans 30 years in public and private schools, including 15 years of bringing mindfulness and trauma-informed strategies into regular, special and alternative education classrooms (K-12). Her teaching, curricula and program, Wellness Works in Schools, has reached thousands of teachers and their students. Wynne's training and teaching tools address/integrate mindful awareness, attention, self-care, re-regulation, trauma in the classroom, healthy connections, social emotional skills, and behavior guidance. She teaches two graduate courses: Trauma, Restoration & Resilience in Educational Environments and Self-Care for Teachers at Eastern Mennonite University.