-Â NASET Webinar Featuring: PhD Candidate, Tara Tedrow, MA, Assistant Professor of Instruction at the University of Northern Iowa-
The Brain Behind the Behavior
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Trauma, Behavior Disorders, and What Special Educators Can Do About It
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 Meet PhD Candidate, Tara Tedrow, MA:
Tara Tedrow, MAÂ is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in Special Education at the University of Northern Iowa and a PhD candidate at the University of Iowa, where she specializes in special education with a cognate in neuroscience. Her research focuses on the intersection of neuroscience, trauma, and behavior disorders - exploring how brain science can inform trauma-informed pedagogy and teacher preparation. She is also affiliated with the Scanlan Center for School Mental Health at the University of Iowa.
Prior to her university career, Tara taught in K-12 classrooms across multiple settings. She holds teaching endorsements in instructional strategies for mild/moderate and BD/LD designations, as well as ESL (K-12), bringing a multidisciplinary lens to how schools serve their most complex students.
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Why Attend?
Research shows that 2 out of 3 children have experienced at least one traumatic event by the age of 16. For students with behavior disorders, the numbers are even more striking. These students are not choosing to be difficult - their brains have been shaped by experiences most of their teachers know nothing about, because most teacher preparation programs never address the neuroscience behind it.
Special educators are trained to respond to behavior. Very few are trained to understand the neurological architecture driving it. When a student with a trauma history escalates, what is actually happening in the brain? Why do standard behavioral interventions sometimes make things worse? What does the research actually tell us, in plain language, in a way you can apply the next day you walk into your classroom?
Tara Tedrow has spent her career at exactly this intersection - not separating neuroscience, trauma, and behavior disorders into separate silos, but studying them together as an applied framework for educators.
In this session, participants will:
- Understand the neuroscience of trauma - a clear, jargon-free breakdown of what trauma actually does to a developing brain and why it shows up as behavior in your classroom.
- Learn why some standard interventions backfire - which common behavioral approaches can inadvertently re-trigger a dysregulated nervous system, and what to do instead.
- Apply trauma-informed strategies grounded in evidence - research-backed de-escalation and relationship-building practices that align with how a trauma-impacted brain processes safety.
- Connect this to IEP practice - how a neuroscience-informed framework can shape your FBA, BIP, and IEP documentation for students with behavior disorders.
- Bring this back to your team - language and framing to share with administrators, school psychologists, and general education colleagues who may not share this lens.
This is an essential session for special education teachers, administrators, school psychologists, and related service providers who work with students whose behavior has never quite been explained by the behavioral plans alone.
All registrants will have access to the recording and attendees will receive a certificate of attendance for professional development.
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