Help Students Rebuild from the Inside Out
Restoring Trust tackles one of the most urgent and overlooked barriers to learning in special education: readiness. Many students enter school environments burdened by trauma, mistrust, and years of academic failure. Before learning can happen, trust must be restored.

This book provides that foundation-through engaging stories, reflective activities, and structured routines that guide students toward responsibility and emotional growth.

-  Why Educators and Therapists Choose This Book:

Designed for Learning Readiness
Students can't learn when they don't feel emotionally safe. This book helps students recognize their behaviors, understand the impact on others, and practice rebuilding broken relationships-all critical steps in becoming ready to learn.

Standards-Based Curriculum - Academic + SEL
Every activity aligns with both Common Core ELA standards and the CASEL SEL competencies, offering real academic and emotional skill-building. Standards addressed include:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.3 / 5.3 - Describe how characters in a story respond to challenges.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.1 / 5.1 - Refer to details and examples in a text when drawing inferences.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.1 / 5.1 - Write opinion pieces supporting a point of view with reasons.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.1 / 5.1 - Engage effectively in collaborative discussions.

Built for Special Education
With a gentle tone, predictable structure, and trauma-informed pacing, this book is ideal for students with emotional and behavioral disabilities, autism, ADHD, and other learning differences. Activities meet students where they are-academically, emotionally, and socially.

Unique Features Inside:

-Relatable short stories with social dilemmas

-Reflection questions and sentence starters

-Accountability routines

- Restorative letter templates

- Visuals and symbols to support non-readers and emergent writers

- Activities designed for one-on-one, small group, or classroom use

- Who It's For:
Special education teachers, school counselors, social workers, behavior specialists, SEL leaders, and anyone supporting students in therapeutic or self-contained settings.

- Flexible and Modular
Use across weeks or embed into daily check-ins, writing time, SEL blocks, or pull-out counseling.

The curriculum comes with the teacher's guide and student workbook