I get several emails a week from readers wanting to know if a career in school psychology is right for them. I can only speak…
Read MoreHappy Blogaversary to Me!
One year ago, I embarked on the journey of writing Notes from the School Psychologist. I had stories galore about working in large urban school…
Read MoreThe One in Which My Lunch is Interrupted by a Faux Knife Fight
The teacher’s lounge can be a scary place to be. I have been assigned as the school psychologist in no less than 10 different schools…
Read MoreSpecial Education: The Department of Redundancy Department
This is the post in which I realize that crazy has become normal. Since I’ve been immersed in crazy for 7 years, I didn’t even…
Read MoreThe First Two Days Back In Public School: By The Numbers
Number of Icebreakers: 7,000Number of Schools Assigned to Me: 3Number of Days in Working Public School Per Week: 3Ratio of School Psychologist (Me!) to Students:…
Read MoreReflecting on the Reflection of My Reflection
Anyone who has been through graduate school in psychology or education knows that the standard pedagogical practice in most classes is to reflect on what…
Read MorePsychoeducational Part VI – Visual Processing
I see a group of fuzzy hairs attached to a medium sized four-legged creature. A large pink object attached to a smaller portion of the…
Read MoreSchool’s Out for Summer
Now that my public schools are out until August, where will I get blogfodder? Where? Where? Ah yes. I will get it from my dear…
Read MoreAuditory Processing (Psychoeductional, Part V)
This next post in the series on Psychoeducational Assessments (Background History, Testing Observations, Intelligence/Cognition, and Visual-Motor Integration,) has been extraordinarily daunting for a number of…
Read MoreVisual-Motor Integration (Psychoeducational Part IV)
So far, this series has addressed the following components of a Psychoeducational assessment: 1) Background History2) Testing Observations3) Intelligence/Cognition In this post, the psychological process…
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