I hope you all read the title ''SPAW! SPAW!'' to the sound effect of a large predatory bird cawing. No? Well I did in my head. SPAW stands for School Psychology Awareness Week, in case anyone was wondering. So, how was your SPAW? I spent mine on maternity leave, making informal Individual Education Plan goals for my baby daughter in my head, as ...

One of the fun things about being a grown up school psychologist is that I get to interact with interns, prospective grad students, grad students in school psych, and newbies. I get emails from people all over the world inquiring what the profession is like, and what grad school is like. I have too much distance to really write about grad school ...

How appropriate that in School Psychology Awareness Week (SPAW!) I didn’t have any time to write anything until Saturday afternoon. Indeed, it was a long Wednesdaythursdayfriday this week. Being a school psychologist is kind of like taking a tour of Europe in 5 days. As in, if its Tuesday, this must be my elementary school, and if its Wednesday, I ...

Today I am continuing the Day in the Life of a School Psychologist series for School Psychology Awareness Week, aka SPAW (I love that acronym, being one off from SPAWN and making us seem kind of evil). I cannot believe it is only Tuesday. Here we go: 7:30am: Student Success Team meeting. Yes, at 7:30am. I know I’m an early bird and all, but ...

It's School Psychology Awareness Week! More importantly, I actually remembered this year, unlike the last two years! This year's theme is SHINE. Or something. I'll do my best to shine all week, I promise. This morning, I thought: What better way to shine a light on my illustrious profession than to do another popular ''Day in the Life'' posting? ...