It’s Mental Health Awareness Week! *party balloons fall digitally down your screen if I was fancy and knew how to insert an obnoxious pop-up situation*…
Read MoreThis Week, with Debbie Downer
Husband is so great. Whenever there’s a news show about education, he TiVos it for me and we watch it together. Even on our 1st…
Read MoreSpecial Education, IEPs, and Due Process, Oh My.
For those of you who missed it, here’s my appearance on Learning and Laughter with Louise on the topic of special education. I did this…
Read MoreFrom the eMailbox: Top 5 Questions I Get as a School Psychologist
I love when peeps write me with their burning school psychologist questions. (Insert curmudgeon voice): In MY day, we didn’t HAVE bloggers to write burning…
Read MoreI Got Served Again…This Time by the Courts.
Friends, last week (or was it month?) I wrote about getting “served” by math, and it must be Serve-a-Pol-ooza month. You see, this week, I…
Read MoreKittens, Sheep, and Wolves. Oh My.
As many of you who follow me on Facey Face know, I have been that poor kitten holding onto the branch. I have been swamped…
Read MoreMarch Madness Comes Early This Year
Ha Ha! All you basketball sports fans who googled “March Madness” got to my blog about how grade retention and social promotion decisions have come…
Read MoreNo Child Left a Dime: A Call to Action!
Hello friends…I have some exciting news. No, I’m not going on maternity leave. You people are just like the bridal registry peeps at Pottery Barn….
Read MoreThe Non-Glamorous Side of School Psychology
You know what is not interesting about being a school psychologist? Writing up psychoeducational reports. Sure, at first it was exciting, trying to figure out…
Read MoreAwkward Conversation #249: Telling a Parent Her Teenager Has Mental Retardation
It never really gets easier. I get better at my schpeal, but telling a parent their child tested in the retarded range is never easy….
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