SSS News - Thankfulness edition
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We're thankful for our School Psychologists!
We're thankful for our School Psychologists!
Last week was school psychology appreciation week, so if you have not thanked your school psychologist yet, now's the time!
This year, every single full time, regularly-assigned psychologist has at some point taken on extra work... and well above and beyond the usual "working in a pandemic is hard" sort of hard work, they have literally been stepping up to cover extra buildings and programs. So when we say we are thankful we don't just mean in a general sense, we mean they are saving our bacon!
You Might be a Special Educator
on Thanksgiving
If your invitations to family members include both a phone call and written letter.....you might be a special educator on Thanksgiving.
If you see your cookbook as your curriculum.....
If you refer to everyone’s hungry stomach as the “common core”....
If you weigh yourself before and after your
meal for the sake of good data.......
If you refer to your family as your multi-disciplinary team.......
If when asked “when do we eat” you refer people to your visual
schedule…you might be a special educator on Thanksgiving.
If you ensure little kids sit at the same table
as adults for the sake of "inclusion"......
If you refer to your spread as "differentiated".......
If your dinner table is equipped with name tags, conversation
starters, a bathroom pass, and hand sanitizer….
If your salt and pepper shakers are velcroed to the table…
If your meal begins by reviewing the expected social behavior at the dinner table.... you might be a special educator on Thanksgiving.
If your meal is interrupted by a sensory break so
that people don't get sleepy from the turkey.....
If someone complains because eating at the table is having an
adverse impact on their ability to watch the game.....
If the rolls are passed around the table only after
a formal request for change of placement.....
If at the end of the meal you are considering putting your
mother-in-law on a behavior plan....
If everyone’s Free Access to Pie Enjoyment is described as FAPE….
you might be a special educator on Thanksgiving.
If you are so full you require special transportation.....
If you advocate for your need to lie on the couch because
it is the Least Restrictive Environment….
If you then plan your Black Friday shopping
with measurable goals and objectives......
And finally, if you are at the top of the list for what administrators, students, and parents are thankful for......you are a special educator on Thanksgiving.
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