As a graduate student supervisor, I frequently find myself selling the school-setting to speech-language pathology students. Many graduate programs ... Read more
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Tips for a calm, healthy and fantastic school year!
Almost everyone is officially now "back to school"... how are you feeling about that? Excited? Exhausted? Somewhere in between? I know there have ... Read more
The Importance of Learning Social Skills Outside of the Classroom
An actual email I sent to the staff at my school a few weeks ago: I have a little story to tell.... Xth grade recess is often fairly ... Read more
A Prayer For My Day
Heavenly Father, I pray for my day today. I pray for all the children who I will see in the halls, in the classroom, and in my room. I pray you ... Read more
7 Things I Wish I’d Learned Before Working in a School
The following 7 things are things that wish someone had told me these things before I started working in a school! Or... if they did tell me, I wish I ... Read more
Reasons to be a School-Based SLP
I just started back from spring break today and have to say that I am TIRED! It is really hard to go from "sleeping in" to 5am wake ups ... Read more
Conference scheduling disaster. Again.
For whatever reason, my kids' school has an extremely inefficient method of signing up for conferences. Conferences which are almost 2 months away I ... Read more
Lunch time woes
September 2012 Dear SLP at my children's school, I've spoken with you in the past as I am the SLP at a school down the street from you and we've ... Read more
1st week of school
I hate the first week of school. There. I've said it. While all my other teacher friends are writing sentimental statements about how excited ... Read more
Take your child to work day
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. After haggling with my principal, I was approved to bring my 8 year old son to work ... Read more
How to transform my pathetic year into glittery goo.
As much as I'd love to create a sappy, woe-is-me post, I've decided to stick my chin up, put on a fake smile, and throw glitter obnoxiously around ... Read more
Speech Club and Mad Libs Monday
I created a new Speech Club this year (and handily tied it to my "professional development" so that my principal would support this new endeavor). ... Read more
Top 10 Reasons to be a School-based Speech Pathologist
I had not intended to work in the public schools. I actually fled teaching after a one year nightmarish career as a high school science ... Read more
Scheduling for Speech
Remember in High School when you could have sworn that your English teacher threw all those essays up his stair case. The ones that landed nearest the ... Read more