Musings of an Urban School Psychologist

The day we brought Murphy home At the end of the school year, Husband and I became "parents" to an English Springer Spaniel pu...

(a warning for sexual slang terms in this post) At our most recent Committee on Special Education (CSE) meeting day, we held a reevalua...

(because you know there will be more) I love when I have experiences that are totally off the wall at work and give me gleeful bouts of l...

Well hello friends, it's been a while! My apologies for the long hiatus in exciting blog posts--I pretty much turned my brain off once s...

I'm sure that many of you, when telling others that you're a school psychologist, have encountered those folks who get nervous that ...

I have decided to devote this post to the somewhat-reaching-but-very-pop-culturally-relevant topic of zombies. No, not the Miami Zombie (shu...

I recently evaluated a little kiddo who was a rather interesting case. Here's an excerpt of the email I sent to the receiving psychologi...

Our district is on a big push to increase attendance , and with startling drop-out and graduation rates, rightly so! Attendance has implicat...

The last week before February break was an uber test-a-thon for me. I was on a mad dash to finish testing four kiddos before the time off, w...

Stole this idea from Tabitha over at Scrapbook of a School Counselor since I thought it was a great way to give a snapshot of my day. Enjoy...

Since it was requested by a follower of my Facebook page, I shall recount the tale of the time I broke up my first fist fight. You'd thi...

Just got this in an email through my district's psychologist email group and I simply had to share. Happy holidays everyone! Expect a co...

One of my favorite parts about the Halloween season (seeing as every holiday is becoming it's own 2-month ordeal, these days) is all the...

Who doesn't love getting pictures drawn by kiddos? I decorate the front and side of my desk and file cabinet with gifties like these... ...

Staff reported today, and it was great to see my staffy friends! Lots of people were moved either in, out, or around my building, so there...

I'm going to digress from my typical school psych-y goodness to bring you this announcement: I love shoes. I wear heels to work virtu...

I've spent 3.5 of the past 6 days in trainings... sitting in a window-less conference room, breathing in 70 other colleagues carbon diox...

I've spent all day in mind-numbing CSE meetings, which have totally worn me out. Come Monday, there will still be a pile of paperwork to...

I was called to respond to a runner who we deal with frequently. S is in first grade and is having a hard time emotionally adjusting to the ...

The following quote from a local newspaper sums up my undergraduate experience perfectly: "The... bond is arguably tighter than at mos...