Brittany Collins

Brittany is an author, educator, and curriculum designer dedicated to promoting the social and emotional wellness of students and teachers. She is the Founder of Grief-Responsive Teaching (www.griefresponsiveteaching.com), a professional learning community dedicated to supporting students' and teachers' wellbeing in times of loss, and is the author of Learning from Loss: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Supporting Grieving Students, now available through Heinemann Publishing, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon. With over 40 bylines in refereed journals and digital outlets, Brittany's work has appeared in: The Washington Post; Education Week; English Journal and Literacy & NCTE of the National Council of Teachers of English; Inside Higher Ed; Greater Good Magazine (of Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley); Harvard Graduate School of Education's "Usable Knowledge" blog; Teachers & Writers Magazine; Edutopia; Brevity blog; Insight, of Dana Farber Cancer Institute; Susan G. Komen; and Thrive Global. Her work has gained attention from The New York Times, Arianna Huffington, Gloria Steinem, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and Ms. Magazine. When not writing about education, Brittany enjoys working directly with students and teachers, designing, developing, and implementing curricula and educational programming for such schools and organizations as PBS Learning Media; Columbia University; Harvard University's Graduate School of Education; Smith College; Boston University; Write the World (where she works as the Education Program Manager); Race Project Kansas City; New York University; School Crisis, Recovery & Renewal Project; the Public Education & Business Coalition; Zionsville Community Schools; and the NY State Chapter of the National Association for Social Workers; among other schools and organizations. Please explore more detailed descriptions of Brittany's work at: www.brittanyrcollins.com and www.griefresponsiveteaching.com.