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As a graduate student supervisor, I frequently find myself selling the school-setting to speech-language pathology students. Many graduate programs inadvertently spread the idea that working in the schools is somehow “lesser” or not prestigious. As…
Almost everyone is officially now “back to school”… how are you feeling about that? Excited? Exhausted? Somewhere in between? I know there have been a million “back to school” posts over the years, so I…
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 hectic. We have MANY kids with special needs (both…
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 would give them love…
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 had listened! 1. In spite…
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 again! Because it is difficult to…
For whatever reason, my kids’ school has an extremely inefficient method of signing up for conferences. Conferences which are almost 2 months away I might add. Yesterday was my kids’ back to school night (yep,…
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 shared kids before. I also happen…
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 they are about students coming back and how fresh and eager…
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. After haggling with my principal, I was approved to bring my 8 year old son to work with me on Thursday. This being an elementary school, and…
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 until everything looks pretty. Cuz I really…
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). All my 3rd-5th articulation only students meet with me daily…
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 teacher. The plan was that I would finish my…
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 top step received “A”s, the next steps received…
