Car Seat Wars.
They (the royal “they”) say to write about what you know. Lately, I have been learning a lot about behavior modification. I will write about that. No, I haven’t learned about behavior mod through a great professional development or fabulous new book for school psychologists. I have been engaging in battles with a tiny tyrant […]
Keep Calm and Just Keep Swimming.
Does anyone remember a show where Bill Cosby sat down with kids and asked them questions and the studio audience laughed as they said the “darndest” things? I remember seeing it in high school and being annoyed at the phrase “darndest.”* But the kids were pretty cute. As a school psychologist, I get some awesome […]
An Empty Nest in my Heart…
All finished!
I typically end the year with a “Year in Review” post, and re-post links to the most popular blog posts of 2012 by month, but this year, not so much…I shamefully only wrote 19 posts all year. I am going down a blog shame spiral. But in my defense, I did spend most of the […]
I Can’t Stop Thinking About It.
I wrote this the day after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. I couldn’t finish it until today… I first reacted to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a mom of a 15 month old little girl. Though she is not old enough to go to school yet, I still pictured her, 6 […]
From the Mouths of Babes…What is a School Psychologist?
Happy School Psychology Awareness Week! (SPAW! SPAW!)* Our profession is a difficult one to explain. When I tell people I’m a school psychologist, I often get “Oh, you’re a counselor!” Then, in order to avoid taking up that person’s hour with all the roles of a school psychologist, I simply say, “Kind of! But […]
Five!
Today is an important day. I’m certain it is on your calendar…. It’s my FIVE YEAR BLOGIVERSARY! What better way to celebrate than to post a picture of a meerkat wishing me a happy day? I think that’s a meerkat, anyway. Now is the time when I reflect on my writing craft or something, right? […]
Tweeeeeet! We have a winner.
Hello my fellow tweety birds! I loved my first twitter contest (@studentsgrow) because I got to read why all y’all NEEEEEEEDED to win the School Psychologist Basket o’ Survival. I wish I had a basket for everyone, you folks need it! Loved seeing what posts resonated with you all as well. My fav shout out […]
You Want This Prize.
Ah, back to school….how are we all doing? Things are gettin’ real, right? No more icebreakers and settling in, it’s go time for school psychologists. You start having days at your school site where everything that could go wrong does and you run around putting out a hojillion fires and then you look at the […]
The Teacher Look.
When you’re a school psychologist, you hear a lot of uncensored statements made by kids: “Hey! Get away from me, I ain’t no #$%*ing special ed!” “You’re fatter this year, are you pregnant?” “Is that a big zit on your nose?” Kids don’t always censor. It’s a fact. And each time they say something socially […]
