This paper describes the Trauma-informed Equity-minded Asset-based Model (TEAM) framework for social justice-oriented educators. We draw on traumainformed approaches to illustrate how systemic racism as systemic trauma and normative whiteness as dominant ideology are embedded in the U.S education and media institutions. From an equity-minded perspective, we critique notions such as egalitarianism, colorblind racism, neoliberal multiculturalism, and abstract liberalism. Using an asset-based model, we urge educators to avoid deficit ideologies to frame marginalized communities. The TEAM approach offers the following "Six R's" as strategies: (1) "Realizing" that dominant ideologies are embedded in educational systems, (2) "Recognizing" the long-term effects of systemic trauma on learners from aggrieved communities, (3) "Responding" to trauma by emphasizing safety, trust, collaboration, peer network, agency, and voice within learning environments, (4) "Resisting" retraumatization within learning environments, (5) Replacing egalitarianism with equity-mindedness and (6) "Reframing" deficit ideology with an asset-based lens to learners.