Musings of an Urban School Psychologist

My fourth first grade emotions/anger management group session was marred by the insanity that is November 1st. On this fateful day, the ki...

Today for our group, I grabbed the wonderful Skillstreaming in Early Childhood book and taught Skill 21: Knowing Your Feelings. This was ...

Today was the kick-off of my newest counseling group, hooray!! For this group, I'm going to be focusing on identifying feelings and th...

At one of our last bi-weekly meetings, my principal asked that my colleagues and I plan to do counseling groups in our 6:1+1 Special Class...

(how difficult was that title to mentally read?) We are approaching the half-way mark of the school year, which is insane to think about. W...

You may remember my Michael Jackson-loving , big dreamer blog star, H. A quick recap for our viewers at home: H is diagnosed with Asperg...

Just found a spectacular behavior tracking tool! So often, I see teachers get overwhelmed and bogged down by trying to monitor BIPs or estab...

After blogging about a universal Tier I PBIS support our school has, our Tiger Ticket program , I wanted to share another initiative new thi...

My building, like so many others, faces a big problem: bullying . Most of it is verbal, done online, or done on the sly during the day. Most...

With the first week back to school coming to a close, I thought I'd write about one of the new Positive Behavior Intervention Support (P...

School Counselor Blog is having a giveaway on the great Girls in Real Life Situations, Grades 6-12 program . Thought I would share not only...

We ended our social skills/anger management group this week. The boys requested ice cream sandwiches as a treat for our last group, so Ms. ...

I missed the majority of the most recent group session because I was stuck in CSE meetings. Sad face. I came up for the very end of grou...

Group this week was complicated by high humidity and 80+ degree temperatures. My city is either one extreme or the other weather-wise, and b...

Ms. B and I went into our most recent group session knowing it would either go great or go horribly awry. Of course, when a game is called ...

(Apologies for the delayed-ness of this entry. I'm still adjusting to life back in the real world after a girls weekend in Folly Beach, ...

Ms. B and I had to do some shifting of days and time for group this week, but we conducted our session in the boys' classroom while they...

We had our first group session today with the class of 6:1+1 boys who have dubbed themselves "C's Crew" after their teacher (...

I'm starting up a weekly group in my "favorite" 6:1+1 classroom with one of my colleagues, who is a counselor from an outside ...

J is a student who has had some behavioral difficulties this year. J's home life is pretty tough and a lot of those troubles come to sch...