I recently took an online professional development course offered by the Massachussetts School Psychologists Association entitled Ethics 102: The Ethical Practitioner. It provided me with ten hours of NASP-approved PD, plus helped me satisfy my National Certification in School Psychology requirement of three hours of ethics training per three-year renewal…
Category: Professional Development
Leadership Day 2011: Networking 101
This is my third year participating in the Leadership Day blog carnival, organized by Dr. Scott McLeod of the University of Kentucky or Iowa State University (depending on which online bio you read), or maybe both; I’m not quite sure. In 2009, I wrote about my experiences working for an effective school…
Owning Up
One of the reasons I like blogging so much is because it helps keep me honest. If I have an idea for a project or practice, I like to write about it in this public space because it makes me feel beholden to you (whoever you are) to see it…
Every New Beginning Comes From Some Other Beginning’s End
Just a quickie blog post, but one I am excited to write: I have accepted a new position for the upcoming school year. In what will be a significant (but very welcome) professional change for me, I will be working with students in grades 4-6 as a school psychologist; as…
Sharing My Career Via Dropbox
On March 7, 2011, I finally did something I have wanted to do for a long time: I made available for download all the materials I developed, adapted, and otherwise used for all the courses I taught over the span of my eight-year career teaching high school English. Why I…