Welcome back to the weekly installment of Teaching Tips Tuesday (T3)! This is a weekly post in which readers get the chance to share their wealth of information about what works for them in the classroom, or at home in teaching their kids. Instructions on how to post something are here. So here’s my tip [...]

When I first started my clinical practice at a Children’s Hospital, I got referrals left and right to assess children for “Sensory Integration” disorders. The classic referral was from parents who were concerned that their 2 year old was clumsy (aren’t they all kind of clumsy?) or didn’t like tags touching them (who does?). I [...]

Right, so this is an experiment to see if I am SO 21st century and am able to pull off this “Mr. Linky” automated link situation. The basic idea of Teacher Tip Tuesday is to have you all post tips that work in the classroom or at home when teaching kids. The full guidelines and [...]

I’m trying out a new idea of having you, my talented readers, share tips with other educators, psychologists, and parents about ways you’ve had success in teaching kids. It can be as little as a new way to teach multiplication facts, what to do in the last 10 minutes of class, how you motivate your [...]

It’s no secret that I embrace our new president for the role he can play in providing hope to urban youth. I recently wrote about why I am going to DC for the inauguration for a piece on NPR’s California Report. Skip ahead to 18:00 (or about halfway on the toolbar) on the streaming audio [...]

I love bad movies. I find them to be so relaxing because I know exactly what will happen in the end. Once you get the “boy-meets girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-gets-girl back” formula, you can just relax and watch the predictable nonsense ensue. I always turn to my movie-goer friend during romantic comedies and sarcastically ask, “I [...]

You know what is lacking in urban schools sometimes? Happy people. Now I recently discovered that happiness is contagious and I would really like some people at work to get infected with a serious case. I entered one of my schools to find that someone had gotten all festive on me and put up holiday [...]

Hi Moms from “Rocks in My Dryer!” I have just discovered your “Works for Me” links and I hope you’ll enjoy a few tips from a school psychologist on how to make studying for a test with your child more fun. These two links are geared for teachers, but are easily adapted to homework sessions [...]

My fiancé and I have a tradition of watching Meet The Press every Sunday to catch up on the state of our nation.* It is mandatory that I have at least one cup of coffee in hand prior to activating the TiVo. The TiVo is necessary for when we want to pause to jump in [...]

You are thinking: “How is OJ Simpson’s latest pending incarceration possibly related to educational psychology?” WELL. This is a full-service blog, people! As I picked up my morning paper today, I saw that OJ was going to jail for 9 years and I smiled, not because I particularly enjoy when ex-athletes get incarcerated, but because [...]