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Must see! Paper Tigers is a moving and profoundly important film. Free Admission.
Paper Tigers, a film by James Redford shares how "outside of the box" thinking from one high school became an unlikely community success.
A Community Event
The Connecticut Premiere Presentation of
Paper Tigers
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“Absolutely riveting, profoundly important.” -- New York Times journalist/author David Bornstein
Thinking “outside of the box” can result in greatness.
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The New Haven Trauma Coalition* invites you to witness “outside of the box” thinking from one high school -- and how that community became an unlikely success -- at the Connecticut premiere screening of Paper Tigers, a documentary film from producer and filmmaker James Redford.
The exclusive presentation will be Wednesday, October 28th at 6:30 pm at the Shubert Theatre, New Haven, CT.
Q&A session with James Redford will immediately follow the film screening.
Paper Tigers explores how one Washington state high school radically changed its approach to disciplining its students, becoming a promising model for breaking the cycles of poverty, violence and disease that affect families. Said one teacher at the school, “The behavior isn’t the kid. The behavior is a symptom of what’s going on in their life.”
“Stressed brains can’t learn.”
That was the nugget of neuroscience that Jim Sporleder, principal of a high school riddled with violence, drugs and truancy, took away from an educational conference in 2010. Three years later the number of fights at Lincoln Alternative High School had gone down by 75%, and the graduation rate had increased five-fold. Paper Tigers follows six students over the course of a school year where Lincoln staff try a new approach to discipline: one based on understanding and treatment rather than judgment and suspension. Using a combination of verite and revealing diary cam footage, Paper Tigers is a testament to what the latest developmental science is showing: that just one caring adult can help break the cycle of adversity in a young person’s life.
Registration is required, admittance is free. For more information and to register, please visit www.newhaventrauma.org.
* The New Haven Trauma Coalition is an active and ambitious collaboration that includes the City of New Haven, New Haven Public Schools, United Way BOOST!, and Clifford Beers Clinic. The effort springs from knowing how profoundly trauma impacts the health and wellness of children and families. It is school-based to make access to care easier for those who need services, and being in schools allows those who work with children to develop a deeper understanding of the trauma-health relationship. For more information, please visit www.cliffordbeers.org.
