Addressing Compassion Fatigue in Urban Schools

As more students experience trauma and anxiety, the toll of teachers' compassion fatigue cannot be overlooked.

Auteur

Jacquelyn Ollison is an equity-focused education expert in improving teacher retention in high-poverty schools by addressing teachers' compassion fatigue. She is a featured TEDx speaker on educators' compassion fatigue, and she knows the impact compassion fatigue has on educators because it happened to her, and she left the classroom. She is the Director of the Center for Research on Expanding Educational Opportunity at UC Berkeley and an instructor at the UC Merced Extension Teacher Preparation Program.