This past spring, I ran a workshop at the same conference at which Heidi Hayes Jacobs gave the keynote. As part of my presenter’s “swag bag”, I received a copy of Dr. Jacobs’ Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World, a collection of essays about teaching and learning in…
Category: Reflection
Online Learning: My Pre-Test
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…
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…
Words Mean Things III
Over the course of some Memorial Day morning bargain-hunting, I came across this magnet for sale at my local Five Below store: In the last “Words Mean Things” installment, I wrote about the unintended signals our words sometimes send. At least this magnet doesn’t have that problem. I debated saying…