In my free time, I have been writing curriculum designed to teach beginning special education teachers what they need to know about teaching students with special needs. I am on page 600 and have 4 more sessions to write. I mean, there is a LOT that teachers need to know. I don’t know how you [...]

Scene: It is a sunny day, 4 children and one psychologist are seated outside at the lunch tables of a nonpublic school for children with emotional disturbance. Birds are chirping.
Aaand….Action.Three of the four children are eating bologna sandwiches. The fourth child looks at the sandwich and screams, “I hate this sh*%!” and throws said [...]

I posted once on my Facebook Fan Page that I was “writing reports, which is the non-glamorous side of school psychology.” One of my wonderful colleagues wrote back, “Wait, there’s a glamorous side???”
Okay, so there’s not really a glamorous side, but I try to tell the cyberworld the truth of this profession–the warm fuzzies, [...]

I have written before about the dangers of eavesdropping and making assumptions. I now turn to a favorite movie, Office Space, to illustrate the dangers of jumping to conclusions when you are a school psychologist.
I really could have used this mat the other day to remind myself how lame it is [...]

I think I will.
After a day of being a de-facto “lice-check line” monitor today at my elementary school, due to my unfortunate office juxtaposition, I really needed something fun to do this evening. I came home, psychosomatically itching all over (please, please be psychosomatic) and am delighted when I realize it’s Wednesday. Because Wednesday [...]