Aces high

Colleagues,

MVP: People’s stories matter, and the more you know the better you can serve.

ACE stands for Adverse Child Experiences. ACE is primarily used in mental health settings. ACE is a way to easily communicate the degree of trauma a person has grown up with. 

Its value in mental health and educational settings may be obvious, but what about the work environment?

It’s not that we need to know a person’s ACE score, but knowing their story and background can help us understand how to best support and grow them.

I bring this up because today’s podcast guest has an ACE score of 9/10. That indicates an intense and traumatic childhood. His experiences are fundamentally different from my own (my ACE score is 1/10).

Admittedly, I’m using ACE to grab your attention. The bigger lesson comes tomorrow. Or you can “fast forward” and listen to the episode here 😉.

Today’s episode of The Assistant Principal Podcast is sponsored by IXL!

Cheers!

​Frederick