For Educators & School Teams
An in-service your teachers won't roll their eyes at.
Your educators have sat through the posters, the pep talks, and the pizza parties. Nicole hands them something different: tools that still work fifth period on a Friday.
For Educators & School Teams
An in-service your teachers won't roll their eyes at.
Your educators have sat through the posters, the pep talks, and the pizza parties. Nicole hands them something different: tools that still work fifth period on a Friday.
WHY NICOLE (FOR THIS ROOM)?
She speaks teacher, not admin-speak.
Nicole is a mom of three who has watched teachers hold her own kids' classrooms together with patience, heart, and sheer will. She spent ten years writing a weekly kindness column, and some of the best stories she ever collected came out of schools. She knows educators don't need to be told to care more. They already care past empty. What they need is a way to protect the part of them that chose this work.
The sESSION
Shift the Script
How educators protect their energy, their classrooms, and their love of the work.
Educators pour out all day long, and the pressure doesn't stay in the lesson plans. It shows up in staff room negativity, shortened patience, and that creeping question of whether the spark will make it to May. In this session, Nicole gives teachers and school leaders a practical way to take their thinking back. Because what you look for is what you see, and that's never more true than with students: the kid you look for is the kid you'll find.
Through humor, real stories, and simple tools, Nicole shows educators how to catch the automatic thoughts that drain their energy, turn their have-tos into get-tos, and stay grounded on the days when everything tests them at once. Perfect for back-to-school in-service, this session sends staff into the year feeling steadier, lighter, and reconnected to why they chose this work.
Participants leave able to:
Catch the automatic thoughts that color how they see students, colleagues, and themselves
Use the have-to versus get-to shift to change how the hardest parts of the day feel
Interrupt negativity loops before they spread through a team or a staff room
Feed what gives them life so their energy lasts the whole school year, not just the first quarter
Available as a keynote, workshop, or half-day.
Ideal for convocations, in-service days, and district events. Tailored to your building, your language, your reality.
The sESSION
Shift the Script
How educators protect their energy, their classrooms, and their love of the work.
Educators pour out all day long, and the pressure doesn't stay in the lesson plans. It shows up in staff room negativity, shortened patience, and that creeping question of whether the spark will make it to May. In this session, Nicole gives teachers and school leaders a practical way to take their thinking back. Because what you look for is what you see, and that's never more true than with students: the kid you look for is the kid you'll find.
Through humor, real stories, and simple tools, Nicole shows educators how to catch the automatic thoughts that drain their energy, turn their have-tos into get-tos, and stay grounded on the days when everything tests them at once. Perfect for back-to-school in-service, this session sends staff into the year feeling steadier, lighter, and reconnected to why they chose this work.
Participants leave able to:
Catch the automatic thoughts that color how they see students, colleagues, and themselves
Use the have-to versus get-to shift to change how the hardest parts of the day feel
Interrupt negativity loops before they spread through a team or a staff room
Feed what gives them life so their energy lasts the whole school year, not just the first quarter
Available as a keynote, workshop, or half-day.
Ideal for convocations, in-service days, and district events. Tailored to your building, your language, your reality.
WHAT AUDIENCES SAY
The talk they bring back to the teachers' lounge.
Nicole has delivered her tools to more than 30,000 people across 200+ events, in rooms from 500-person symposiums to single-team workshops.
"Opened my eyes to how easily I can make small changes for big results. 'What else could be, or is, true?' is a powerful question that does not dismiss the challenge but gives hope."
— Kimberly Brown
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Give your teachers a reason to love the in-service day.
A 20-minute discovery call about your event, your staff, and what this year has asked of them. No pressure.