Creating less stress and more success in the classroom

Dr. Nicola Barber, founder of Ultra Didactic Consulting, is using Soft Skills and Resorative Practices to transform the classroom experience for students and teachers in underperforming schools.

We equip educational professionals with tools needed to efficiently manage their classrooms

I’m an educator, doing what I love. Helping others find information or instructing others, is my dream job. But I also know that sometimes as an educator our jobs can become less than a dream.

I have experiences dealing with more than just disrespect in students and feeling like a “stop gap”; But I found my way by using Restorative Practices, setting student and parent boundaries, and building effective student teacher relationships. And I want to share these technique and plans with others and together with a positive mindset we can create an efficient classroom environment.

  • Part I: Classroom Management Training

    Building teacher and student relationships are the first part of our Classroom Management training.

    Through examples and collaboration with the staff, we evaluate what’s needed and which strategies will better teachers and students.

  • Part II of Classroom Management: Time to Teach

    This is the second part of our classroom management training. Here is where we focus on the strategies, practice, and custom refinement plan of action.

  • We offer an introduction and application of soft skills for professionals.

    Our training is designed for grade schools, college students, daycares, and corporations.

    Training Name:

    The Pivot

    Soft Skills Training for High Performing Professionals that demonstrates the importance of soft skills among the Staff.

    Training Length:

    • 2 hours or half-day

    Required book for each partipant:

    “Tell Me Something Good”

Here are our areas of focus

With over 20+ years of classroom experience, and over a 100 educators served, our firm is ready to reenergize your classroom for optimum success

Our services are listed below and can be tailored to teachers, paraprofessionals and school administrators.

Our Services

  • Our motivational keynote and pannel presentations topics are:

    • School Setting Soft-Skills

    • Classroom Management

    • Building Healthy Teacher-Student Relationships

  • Staff and Teacher Development or training; for schools (public, private, charter), daycares, student teachers, and college-level education programs.

    Currently we offer two programs:

    • The Pivot Training: Soft Skills for high achieving professionals.

    • Classroom Management Training

  • We conduct a case-by-case evaluation of school classrooms and behavior plans.

    This service includes:

    • assistance in creating a school discipline or behavior plan

    • classroom visitation and evaluation

Purchase Dr. Nicola’s NEW Book

With decades of experience inside the classroom, Dr. Nicola found that the key to classroom management is developing proficient soft skills.

After extensive research, Dr. Nicola began writing Tell Me Something Good to serve as a soft skills guide for educators and stakeholders.