Mathew Portell has dedicated a decade and a half to education in his role as a teacher, instructional coach, teacher mentor, and school administrator. It is through the collaborative team approach and building positive relationships that Portell is leading his school into success. He is currently in his fifth year as principal of Fall-Hamilton Elementary, an internationally recognized innovative model school for trauma-informed practices in Metro Nashville Public Schools. The school’s work has been featured on National Public Radio, the local documentary Enough, PBS, and Edutopia, one of the world’s top educational practices website funded by the George Lucas Foundation which resulted in over 7,000,000 views.
He is the founder of the Trauma-Informed Educators Schools Network Group on Facebook which has connected over 20,000 educators in over 100 different countries! In July 2019, he launched the first annual Trauma Informed Educators Network conference which was attended by 150 people from around the world! In September of 2019, he launched the Trauma Informed Educators Network Podcast. Through this podcast he is viewing educators and practitioners from around the globe in which they are sharing their own trauma-informed journeys.
Mathew's Book/Resource Recommendations
The Trauma-Informed Educators Network
The Trauma-Informed Educators Network Podcast
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Nadine Burke, MD
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
If you are interested in connecting and collaborating with Mathew, you can e-mail him at mathew@paradigmshifteducation.com.
