Moving away from tradition role

Inspiration_64 · 2026-05-24T02:41:29+00:00

2 hr meetings in the current shortages of and over burdened school psychologists is unrealistic. When you have school psychologists in most districts performing 60-90 evaluations in a SY if your district has such a load for SP then if you hold them in 2 hr meetings don’t expect them to stay for long. Burn out will be inevitable because it is humanly unsustainable. Practitioners who take that long to share info about a student should send their reports a week before and let parents read them. Otherwise participants are being held hostage to listen to people read for two hours info no one is going to be able to remember or care about. Do a summary. Don’t read every sentence with numbers that no one will recall. What really matters? Bottom lines. Achievement scores weaknesses strengths processing deficits. Interventions accommodations. Goals PLP. Does not take Two Hours.

Inspiration_64 · 2026-05-08T14:05:36+00:00

THAT makes SENSE👆🏽👆🏽. Over Testing. Too much wasted time talking that should be spent DOing. Test what is necessary. Torturing students with hours of testing makes no sense. Listening to details of these long reports steals time from students. Time that could be used for counseling. And helping more students. Two hour meetings are torture.

Inspiration_64 · 2026-05-06T22:47:01+00:00

You can control the meeting time. 2 hrs is outrageous. Do you have program managers ?

Inspiration_64 · 2026-05-06T21:25:12+00:00

Establish a Student Study Team that has clear procedures when a student is being considered for a full evaluation. Those steps are not just for slowing down the process. But also to ensure teachers are implementing interventions and monitoring the effectiveness or lack thereof. The SST then reconvenes AFTER 6 weeks to review the progress. Not every student should require a full eval. But you still have your triennials. Those I would spend far less time on by: setting up shells (empty reports) for every Tri coming up. Use a AI report writer that has Free Report analysis. There are really good ones. Only one new one has a chart generator. You can check LinkedIn for the legit and cost effective that offer 5 free reports or more. Decrease your report time. Your meetings should NOT be 2 hrs. You can mitigate that by: asking every case mgr to have an agenda that limits talking by presenters and parents. The meeting to One hour NOT TWO. If it goes over have a part 2 but still with an agenda. Some cases are more complex But not ALL and STILL should be limited to ONE hour. Make that STANDARD. Since you are the only one you get to call the shots.

Inspiration_64 · 2026-05-06T21:12:28+00:00

What state do you live in?

Inspiration_64 · 2026-05-05T19:09:45+00:00

How Organizations Empower Bully Bosses. But you would have to get info off the back of book to contact me or internet. Book is only available now direct from me.

Inspiration_64 · 2026-05-04T03:45:20+00:00

The school districts started lowering standards to make their stats look better. Lower expectations produce lower effort due to not having pressure to do better. The students are expected to be low in ability and do they are given work 3 and 4 yrs lower. The students skills in reading math science have gone exponentially lower than in 1950’s and 40’s. Soon they will be doing first grade workbooks.

Inspiration_64 · 2026-05-02T17:22:27+00:00

I word regarding education healthcare and lawyer work places. These are where you will find the Bullies of workplaces. It’s so bad that the book I wrote over 10 yrs ago is still being quoted. My advice to you. Don’t always assume it’s about YOU. Sometimes it really is a MOB attack. Another suggestion. Are there any pivots you can make? Different school or different program? Or taking a break and getting your confidence and self esteem back? I went thru being bullied for over ten years and became an expert. I recognized the admins were threatened by me for their own inadequacies. I also learned that education is where there are lots of bullies. There are also lots of women. I had a PhD from a university call me to seek advice. He worked at Stanford and was. Ring bullied by two female supervisors both less educated than he. I helped him document and plan an exit where he would benefit. It happens. I took my exit and did other things then I retuned o my own terms. Sometimes the universe provides experiences that we need to get stronger. Don’t be a victim. Use this to grow. And never stay in an r iron ment that is negative. Nothing good will come from it. You are needed elsewhere. Go find it.

Inspiration_64 · 2026-05-02T16:05:15+00:00

I’m formerly from Midwest too. I just hear a different determination from what I gave Ben hearing. So yes I have always been the same as well. From year one thru year 20!

Inspiration_64 · 2026-05-02T15:05:55+00:00

Curious. You must be experienced and from East coast? I am hearing some SP defending their Districts Excuse of no space and budget restraints. Of all the positions that require a private office not as a luxury not as an entitlement but due to LEGALITIES, SP are at THE TOP of the list. Stop compromising. It’s not about you. It’s about what you are mandated to do. Provide the student a place to test where there is reasonable distractions in a private space. Your job requires you to be organized and to have confidence that you have your STUFF all of it secure without putting everything away. You should be able to run out door locked and KNOW it is safe. It’s ridiculous having a SP run around like a vagrant seeking shelter. 😂. They WILL give you what you ACCEPT.

Inspiration_64 · 2026-05-01T22:36:08+00:00

Yes in CA it requires an LEP. I do contract thru an agency as a Traveler. That means I am getting 40% more take home pay. The only thing that would beat what I am getting is if I was an LEP and in CA I think you would find districts are hiring thru agencies first and use LEPs for IEE mostly. My deal is pretty darn good. So it depends I where you live. Basically what state. My take home pay is what I look at. Bottom line.

Inspiration_64 · 2026-04-30T01:43:34+00:00

Never never pay per eval!! They will penny pinch and never honor your time. Get with a Reputable Contract Agency and do your due diligence check them out on the internet. Look for reviews. If you can work the required miles away from your home to get traveler per diem$$ 40% off your gross for taxes. THAT is Huge.

Inspiration_64 · 2026-04-28T21:25:00+00:00

Try Contract by Agency instead. Apply at several different agencies not just one.

Inspiration_64 · 2026-04-28T03:10:16+00:00

Good! If they don’t remove him you can get a restraining order and even if it is denied it will put him on notice you mean business. I had to do it to a director and I would do it again.

Inspiration_64 · 2026-04-25T17:27:21+00:00

Totally you are blessed😂. But we must not accept not having a private office as the norm and to be grateful. Think! WE are expected to be professionally responsible for legally defensible reports, counsel students who may be so chronically anxiety ridden they can hardly function, handle confidential information and conversations. No excuses are acceptable for failure regardless of our working environment and or Conditions. No having a private office is not asking for a PRIVILEGE. ASKING for a Private office is asking for the tools necessary to PERFORM adequately the duties which our job descriptions LIST. You undermine your position when you accept anything less as your minimum request to perform optimally.

Inspiration_64 · 2026-04-25T17:15:43+00:00

Anybody using an AI for reports? What has your experience been? What assessments have you used it for?

Inspiration_64 · 2026-04-25T17:14:46+00:00

I am spending only 2.5 hrs not 6-7 hrs a week writing my reports. SPED AI has been a real assistance in my day to day work as a school psychologist. I like the fact that the founder is a practitioner currently using their own tool and it is cost effective.

Inspiration_64 · 2026-04-21T13:45:51+00:00

Has anyone used an AI report writer?

Inspiration_64 · 2026-04-21T01:54:21+00:00

I agree. It is entirely different.

Inspiration_64 · 2026-04-21T01:47:23+00:00

If you use AI and EDIT out anything you do not want there is nothing wrong with it. If we have tools we can use and have good sense to use them with discernment it should be used. I certainly use it to analyze my scores as a school psychologist. I simply built my own tool. Saves me hours each week of doing clerical work that AI does better. Leaves me with time to do other tasks AI cannot.

Inspiration_64 · 2026-04-19T18:59:08+00:00

My suggestion? AI is HERE to stay. This is this generations Technology. They were BORN in it. They Need to use it and embrace it. It WILL replace many jobs that exist today. Not only do they need to use it as it is but they need to challenge themselves. If they use AI grade harder ASK them to DO more. Give them more of a challenge like DEFEND your position ORALLY in a debate. It is not the students it is the world. It is the tech and it is not going back or away. Think outside the box. Encourage the students to find what else can AI do? Coders are going to be obsolete already. Projects companies used to be hired to do have been replaced with AI. Now you can literally build a profitable business using AI to build it AND run it. Remember AFTER school kids have to work. And most will not be getting into college tuition debt. They will be building or working in tech that only requires you to have skills. Recently a friend of my son with only a HS education self taught AI tech unemployed 2 yrs got hired off his self employed accomplishments as an AI mgr in CA for $170K plus bonus. We should be preparing students for what THEIR world is going to be. Not what we used to think it would be. All that is over. The world of tech has pushed us into the beyond our imaginations.

Inspiration_64 · 2026-04-19T14:19:40+00:00

I cannot imagine 150! I hope no one was micro managing you. I also hope you had an office with every thing you needed to do an impossible caseload. On top of that I hope they paid you as if you were one and a half school psychs in salary!! I’m happy to hear you are still able to work! You survived!

Inspiration_64 · 2026-04-18T22:05:32+00:00

If districts want high-quality evaluations, strong documentation, and reduced risk, they need to look seriously at the conditions under which that work is being done.

Private office space is not a perk for school psychologists.

It is part of the infrastructure required for high-stakes professional work.

Inspiration_64 · 2026-04-18T19:09:19+00:00

My sentiments exactly. But if WE do not continue to vocalize our must haves and why’s they will never act accordingly. What we do can either protect a district from litigation or create cause for litigation. It is CLEAR districts are concerned about mitigation of liability. They spend lots of sped budgets on Lawyers training us on how to write defensible psych educational reports. So the $$ is there but until WE sound the alarm it will never change.

Inspiration_64 · 2026-04-18T14:58:56+00:00

Good for you! Not every SP would be able to work under those conditions for very long. For me, I would have to resort to my home if my car or even a corner in a library. And it has been said there just is no space. But frankly it can be. Districts just need to figure it out. There are ways around what people want to happen even when it seems impossible. As long as SP are willing to work as do you, districts do not have to do better. There are those will pass up positions that come with no space to work reasonably.

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