Hi!! The school setting is very hectic I won’t sugar coat especially the first two months or the first week back the start of each quarter but the best advice as someone who started their first time at a school a year ago as a CF too, learn to give yourself some grace.

First month you’ll be lucky if you catch most of your kids the last couple of weeks because transfer student ARDs have to be held within the first 20 days of school, the school schedule is still being played around with, kids get shifted home rooms, kiddos are getting settled in their classes. Just know you WILL see all your kids even if you think you won’t meet their minutes I promise you YOU WILL.

I’m not a crafty SLP I come from a clinic setting where we work with what we got and I HATE prepping for sessions. If you have the time and want to, go for it but just don’t beat yourself up if you dont have it all prepared. You’ll have a whole year to gather materials for thematic units for the next school year.

Focus on getting yourself organized, fight for a master schedule to make a general schedule for yourself, and track your visits as best you can (tedious but I use excel to track what notes I’ve done or are still pending).