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Mathew Portell Part 1
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:37:24
Publish Date: 2020-11-24 15:03:00
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Mathew Portell

Mathew 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, a nationally 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. Principal Portell had the honor of presenting Fall-Hamilton’s work to Tennessee State Legislative and Senate Education Committees, at the National Conference of State Legislatures, and the National Commission of Social-Emotional and Academic Development. In January 2019 he traveled to England as the keynote speaker for Towards Trauma-Informed in Northampton.  He served as a monthly contributor to the Education Week blog titled "Learning is Social and Emotional" where he is documenting the journey of sustaining a trauma-informed school. He is the founder of the Trauma-Informed Educators Network Group on Facebook which has connected nearly 12,000 educators in over 90 different countries around becoming more trauma-informed!  In July of 2019, his consulting company Paradigm Shift Education hosted an international conference in Nashville title Trauma-Informed Educators Network Conference: Cultivating Connections.  It was a huge success and he has already scheduled next year’s conference for July 2020.  He launched the Trauma Informed Educators Network Podcast in October of 2019.  The focus of the podcast will focus on educators globally who are making a difference in their areas around being trauma-informed.

Mathew’s work extends past his educational experience.  As a classroom teacher in 2008, he combined his passion for literacy and cycling and founded the double award-winning national non-profit Ride for Reading. The organization promotes literacy and healthy living through the distribution of books via bicycle to underserved children.  Ride for Reading has donated over 500,000 books to children nationally.

Join us at 4Front to meet Mathew.

A special thank you to Benjamin Monlezun for the use of his original song Downpoor.

The views expressed in this episode are solely those of the podcast host and guests and do not necessarily represent the position, strategy, or opinions of CableLabs.
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