Top 5 Things School Psychs Can Do To Get Ready for Next Year

Hello School Psychologist friends! I MADE IT. I just had my last IEP meeting of the school year! Every part of me wants to shove all my files in a box, activate an out-of-office email auto-reply, and just ride out these last few work days. Yet, I know from over 15 years in this job […]

Girls will be Girls

I’ve done it. I’ve overcome my fear of YouTube* and recorded a Podcast. It took a special topic to get me from blogging to vlogging or whatever the cool kids call it. Please check out my appearance on The Urban Monk podcast talking about my new book, The Conscious Parent’s Guide to Raising Girls. Having […]

When Disneyland Somehow Still Isn’t Enough Stimulation

I recently took my 2 year old and my 4 year old girls to Disneyland, and not to brag, but we crushed it. We powered through with no naps for 12 hours a day and my fitbit said we walked 14 miles in two days. Best workout ever. We also got this app that calculated […]

Makeover Time!

I finally got some work done. It was about time. Looking pretty old and dated. Yes, I got my blog and website redone! Wait, what were you thinking? I honestly think the blog had the original blogger template from 2007 when I started Notes from the School Psychologist. It’s almost been long enough for people […]

Educational Solutions Expo–Free Knowledge!

Hi everyone! How many of you school psychologists are coming off a week long beignet, hurricane, and knowledge-fest at the NASP conference in New Orleans? Don’t worry, I’ll was here all week working on reports. SAD FACE. On the bright side…if you didn’t get a chance to NASP it up in NOLA, there is some […]

5 Things for School Psychologists to do this summer.

July is the best month for school psychologists and you know it. June still has some lingering thoughts of the 60-day dash to get everything done before summer and August is tainted by thoughts of sitting in professional developments about how to fill out your timesheet or Medi-cal billing or some such fun. But July…oh […]

5 Things for School Psychologists to Do this Summer

July is the best month for school psychologists and you know it. June still has some lingering thoughts of the 60-day dash to get everything done before summer and August is tainted by thoughts of sitting in professional developments about how to fill out your timesheet or Medi-cal billing or some such fun. But July…oh […]

In Defense of Helicopter and Snowplow Moms…sort of.

I think of my life in two phases: now and B.C. (before children). Before having my own children, I rolled my eyes at the so-called “Helicopter parents” who rescued their children from disappointments and frustration. Or, if we are keeping up with the latest judgmental term for moms, I would have rolled my eyes at […]

SPAW! SPAW! Burning Question, Answered.

And so concludes School Psychology Awareness Week (SPAW! SPAW!) Every year, I alternate between making a screeching sound in my head and mentally adding an “N” to SPAW when I see it written down. It’s a pretty awesome acronym. At least this year I remembered it before it was totally over.  What? School psychs are […]