PRACTICAL TRAUMA-INFORMED
STRATEGIES & TRAINING
GOAT Educators was founded with the purpose 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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HEAL STUDENT TRAUMA WITH LOVE
What are GOAT Educators?
GOAT Educators offer education consultation through trauma-informed professional development and speaking services for schools, districts, and organizations looking to find practical solutions to address students’ emotional needs so they can thrive.
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.
Nicole and her mentor group
