You know that scene in Office Space in which Milton, the mumbling guy who has to move his desk all the time, has to move again, and all he has to hold on to is a red stapler? That stapler is HIS and it’s all he has. He has no dignity, but he’s got his [...]

Every morning, I am greeted at my office by graffiti. I am blessed that the dead rat and ant party has moved elsewhere, but it’s always a little discouraging to be greeted with “F*** Haters!” every morning. I do not like haters, but it looks like I exclaim this every day on my wall for [...]

I have written before about how when I do group counseling, I always make it about building positive traits rather than having students join the Anger Management Gang or the Oppositional Club. So instead of working on our ANGER or RULE FOLLOWING (fun!) we work on planning a group project together, and then when someone [...]

Why? Why the extreme close-up of my 15 seconds of fame??? Here’s the clip of my take on the new study about some positive aspects of video games. Rebecca Bell, Ph.D. rebeccabell@studentsgrow.com Judge each day not by the harvest, but by the seeds you plant Source: noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Bell, Ph.D.)

In my other life, when I am not wrestling with issues in urban education, I also work in private practice at a number of private schools. As I’ve said before, every day is a compare/contrast essay in my head. Each day is a new chapter, with new “Wait, what???” moments. I thought I had heard [...]

Hello fellow bloggers and blog-readers. I am so excited to share this writing opportunity with you all! I think that the one thing that has been the greatest part about blogging has been hearing what you all have to say about kids and education, and learning from each other. Also, our field can be somewhat [...]

Don’t you hate it when you have to eat your words? Today was one of those days. I had to take my own advice and I hated it. As usually happens, an administrator plopped a kid in my office and wanted me to see why he was fighting so much lately. He is a 7th [...]

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 districts that I thought others might want to know, learn about, or just laugh with me as I try to remain sane in a world where I have heard, “This [...]