Need Practical Trauma-Informed Strategies?
The primary purpose of this book is to help educators that teach inner city students adopt a system of beliefs and practices that will help them better educate their students with compassion and understanding.
Need help with classroom management?
The primary purpose of this book is to help educators that teach inner city students adopt a system of beliefs and practices that will help them better educate their students with compassion and understanding.
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Features & Conferences
Our Mission
Teach urban educators how to overcome student trauma so they can teach effectively.
Our Mission
Teach urban educators how to overcome student trauma so they can teach effectively.
GOAT Creed
- I CREATE fun learning.
- I GIVE and earn respect.
- I INSPIRE student excellence.
- I HEAL student trauma with love.
- I AM a GOAT EDUCATOR!
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Meet the Founder
Nicole Thompson, Ed.S is an education consultant, author, speaker, mentor, and retired school psychologist. She has also served as an early intervention therapist and adjunct professor. Nicole is the creator of Reverse the Adverse, a trauma-informed care training for educators and mental health professionals that work with urban students.
Nicole is the author of Reach to Teach: 7 Simple Trauma-Informed Steps to Help Urban Students Engage, Improve Grades, and Decrease Problem Behaviors Overnight. She is also a co-author in Black Therapists Rock: A Glimpse Through the Eyes of Experts in which she shares her story of ACEs and waking up next to her mom’s dead body at 8 years old. She has spoken at Harvard School Mental Health Conference where she received the first standing ovation in over 10 years. Nicole’s work has also been featured in numerous publications, with her most recent appearance in Forbes.
She completed her undergraduate at Temple University and her graduate studies at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine with her Education Specialist Degree in School Psychology.
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