It’s Here! It’s Here!
My book, The Teachable Moment is available on Kindle! And if that weren’t fancy enough, it is FREE until January 17th, 2011. I know, free. You can either go to Kaplan’s website or straight to The Teachable Moment on Amazon.com. If you’re like me, and Santa didn’t bring you a Kindle (did he get my […]
Free inspiration!
I fear this post will go to everyone’s junk mail, because it is an offer of something for FREE with no strings attached! My publisher, Kaplan, is offering my book, The Teachable Moment: Seizing the Instants When Children Learn for FREE this week on the following e-readers: Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iPad, and Sony […]
The Best of 2010 (Plus Shameless Cute Dog Video)
Husband and I have been home the past week for the holidays and have discovered many channels on our U-verse that we didn’t even know we had. I have been sucked into the Smithsonian Channel (nerd alert!), as well as many of the Animal Planet-esque shows. I’m noticing there are ton of “Best Of 2010” […]
The Parent Trap: How Much Monitoring is Too Much?
In graduate school, study after study I read linked parental involvement with school success. So shouldn’t more parental involvement lead to even more school success? Not necessarily. Consider the following two situations I experienced this semester: Scenario 1: A fourteen-year-old girl is failing all her classes. She has a language-based learning disability that is so […]
Sleep. So Hot Right Now.
I presented this evening on the power of sleep for children and learning at one of my schools. Inadvertently, I became my own case study this week on the effects of lack of sleep. I got little sleep this weekend because of a holiday party on one night, and then getting up at 5am on […]
Endorphins, Interrupted
I have been inspired by a fellow school psychologist to go to the gym before work. She goes at like 5am and at first I felt like she was a crazy person, but now I get it. One benefit is obviously good cardiovascular health, but let’s face it, that’s not the reason I set my […]
School Psychology Awareness Week:Wednesdaythursdayfriday
How appropriate that in School Psychology Awareness Week (SPAW!) I didn’t have any time to write anything until Saturday afternoon. Indeed, it was a long Wednesdaythursdayfriday this week. Being a school psychologist is kind of like taking a tour of Europe in 5 days. As in, if its Tuesday, this must be my elementary school, […]
School Psychology Awareness Week: OMG it’s Only Tuesday
Today I am continuing the Day in the Life of a School Psychologist series for School Psychology Awareness Week, aka SPAW (I love that acronym, being one off from SPAWN and making us seem kind of evil). I cannot believe it is only Tuesday. Here we go: 7:30am: Student Success Team meeting. Yes, at 7:30am. […]
School Psychology Awareness Week: Monday
It’s School Psychology Awareness Week! More importantly, I actually remembered this year, unlike the last two years! This year’s theme is SHINE. Or something. I’ll do my best to shine all week, I promise. This morning, I thought: What better way to shine a light on my illustrious profession than to do another popular “Day […]
I’m a Liar. Sometimes.
I have a confession, people. 28 years ago, I lied. I told a group of my elementary friends that I saw “Cats” the Broadway musical. All these girls were talking about it and I felt left out. So I said, “I loved it too!” Then, things got hairy (no pun intended). They started asking questions. […]
