About Dr. Tyisha Noise
Dr. Tyisha J Noise has approximately 25 years experience supporting, nurturing and creating success with underserved student populations from coast to coast in both nonprofit and educational settings. This includes teaching most grades K-12 and early college with specific and extensive expertise in special education and administrative experience in middle and high school. Dr. Noise has experience as both a teacher and administrator in the middle, high and alternative school contexts. She has extensive experience building systems to support best practices implementation and has been a passionate coach of teachers and leaders.
Dr. Noise is an equity warrior currently leading work at the county level with a focus on creating equity for marginalized student populations. Her current major projects include piloting culturally responsive afterschool programming and leading anti-bias & anti-racism work. Her primary research has been focused on how trauma informed schools and leaders can cultivate better outcomes for students in underserved communities. Her most recent accomplishments include co-authoring Reducing Stress in Schools: Restoring Connection & Community published by Harvard Education Press.
Her personal passion project is creating faith based content and products to uplift, encourage and inform young children and their families through her company HeavenSent Kids.
My Publications
About the Book
Essential, accessible guidance for using trauma-informed practices to relieve student and educator stress in schools
In Reducing Stress in Schools, Mathew Portell, Ingrid L. Cockhren, Tyisha J. Noise, Julie Kurtz, and Julie Nicholson provide a toolkit of actionable, evidence-based practices for PreK–12 teachers, administrators, and staff to support students’ and adults’ nervous system regulation. Rooted in the tenets of trauma-responsive education and current neuroscience, these strategies address stress-related behavioral challenges present in schools, including fight, flight, freeze, and fawn behaviors. Unique in its approach, this book raises awareness of the collective trauma caused by the pandemic, highlights the effects of racial and historical trauma, draws attention to educators' stress and burnout, and proposes strategies for stress reduction drawn from a diverse range of practitioner experience.
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Across the globe, school and system leaders are being asked to do more than raise test scores and manage buildings—they are being called to confront long-standing inequities, lead through political polarization, and respond to the unfinished lessons of the COVID-19 era. JEDI Leadership: Foundational Theory, Research, and Case Studies in Diverse Educational Settings offers a timely, practice-centered response to that call.
Tyisha J. Noise has lent her expertise to two chapters
Chapter 2: "Creating a Space Where All Belong: A Case of Organizational Change." and
Chapter 15 "Cultural Proficiency Rubric and Inventory: Collective Care and Wellbeing in the Organization."
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Navigate your classroom toward equity and ensure every student truly thrives.
As classrooms grow increasingly diverse, teachers face the urgent challenge of bridging access gaps to create truly inclusive learning environments. Navigating Your True North in the Classroom is your practical, empathetic guide to addressing these complexities. By applying the Tools of Cultural Proficiency and the Compass Framework for Praxis and Transformative Change, you will learn to transform your mindset, honor intersectionality, and build a positive environment where every learner feels a deep sense of belonging.
Tyisha J. Noise has lent her expertise to multiple chapters:
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This practical guide empowers elementary school principals, teachers, and district leaders to move beyond reactive crisis management toward equitable, individualized support systems. By integrating the frontline experience of school administrators with research-based, culturally proficient, healing-centered, and trauma-responsive practice, the authors provide a definitive roadmap for creating success for our most high-needs students using the Cultural Proficiency, Healing Centered and Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) frameworks.
Written by a multidisciplinary team of nationally recognized experts, this resource is designed for schools that are committed to building systems that meet students where they are and scaffold a pathway to success. Through authentic case studies spanning Pre-K to 5th grade, you will learn how to transform campus communities and school-level policies to champion the students who challenge traditional systems the most.
This professional development resource bridges the gap between believing in equity and facilitating daily practices that actually produce equitable outcomes. It offers actionable strategies for fostering student agency and social-emotional growth, ensuring that intensive interventions remain student-centered and culturally competent for diverse school communities.
Tyisha J. Noise is the lead author for this publication.
More to Come!
Title: Fire(work): Student-Centered and Culturally Responsive Tier 3 Interventions for Secondary Students with Complex Needs — A Practical Guide for Teachers and Leaders With FREE digital companion workbook
Contribution:Lead Author
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Release Date: Spring 2027
About
HeavenSent Kids
The goals of HeavenSent Kids are to preach the gospel in an engaging and palatable way while teaching other important life skills such as reading and comprehension. It is also designed to create a faith based product line designed to empower all of God’s little children to be the real super heros of the world they live in! So join us in creatively preaching the gospel and sharing our faith aloud!
