“Labor” Day Confession—Why I Didn’t Go Back to School This Year
I have a confession. I didn’t go back to work as a school psychologist in the public schools this year. You may or may not have noticed an absence of back to school posts and tweets and Facey Face posts about how the school year has gone so far. No Kindergarten quotes of the day, […]
My One-Woman Fight to Call It Something Else.
It’s back to school “professional development” time! In my district, we call them “PD Days” and in my mind, every time, I call them P. Diddy Days because if you say PD Days fast, that’s what it sounds like. I only wish we were learning how to be the richest figures in hip hop. That […]
Mindfulness. So Hot Right Now.
I am not a trendsetter. I am a reluctant, late adopter of newfangled technology, and I want to see the research before I try something with my students. True, in the tech realm, I have had a blog for over four years, which in blog life, is kind of long, but it’s because my trendsetter […]
Pulling Your Weight.
I have a confession, which long time readers will already know. I can’t stand icebreakers. It dates back to college when I joined a million clubs to bulk up my resume for graduate school* and every single group had the stupidest ice breakers (e.g. what is your favorite scab or scar?). Gross. But in education, […]
Back to School Readiness—For Kindergarteners (and Educators!)
I recently posted on the NFtSP Facey Face page that I thought it was bit premature to see Back to School advertisements in July. To my horror, many people responded that their report back to work days were in early August. Yikes! Perhaps because our district tortured the children into Bikram-hot learning through late June, […]
Lazy Dogs…and Children?
I don’t know why I continually find myself writing about my dogs over summer break. But it has been a while since I had to use my “children aren’t dogs” disclaimer, so I thought I’d dust it off for olde timey’s sake.* Since I’m home now, being a lady of leisure, I have had the […]
Yes, I Still Have a Blog.
Friends, I have been going down a shame-spiral for not posting lately! The weather is hotter, the kids are crazier, and yes, I am STILL working in the school district even though the official first day of summer was yesterday. I spent yesterday in a room that had a temperature roughly the same as the […]
Pay Attention.
Lately, I find myself giving the same speech. It takes me a while to get the language right in explaining difficult concepts about child development, so when I do, I like to make it count and use my new speech whenever possible (apologies to people who attend meetings with me on a regular basis and […]
Emotes.
Anyone who has been a therapist or counseling with kiddos for a while will appreciate this post. I don’t know about y’all, but there are some things in my play therapy kit that I kind of want to throw away because every kid seems to want to play it and I’m so over it (Uno […]
Ain’t Nuthin’ But an Educator Paaaaarty
This week was my spring break (yes, this late). It was so late this year, I almost tricked myself into thinking it was summer break. The good news is, when I go back to work tomorrow, it is practically May, so it won’t be long. You think kids are the only ones who get Spring […]
