Employment!

There aren't many times in my life that I can think of that a job has literally fallen into my lap, but this one seems to have. One of my internship supervisors took me to a luncheon where he was being honored with an award in an attempt to help me get my name out there. I got introduced to the head of the county schools division who upon seeing who I had interned under offered to email out my resume to all the districts. I took him up on his offer and composed a short but sweet cover letter with my resume stating that I was looking for part-time or contract work (as I am pregnant, the husband and I decided it would be perfect if I could work 1-2 days a week). About a week later I got a call out of the blue from an itty bitty district about 50 minutes out side of town who had got a copy of my resume and called around a bit to check me out. They asked if I was interested in working 1 day a week for their district so I of course replied in the affirmative.

It has been a slow couple of months since that phone call but in that time I have gone out to my adorable little school of 72 student to interview and get a tour, have had my contract approved, and am now waiting for all the paperwork to get to me so that I can get my employment set in stone. I am so excited about this new step. It is perfect for my little family to be, and sounds like a position where I will get to stretch way beyond the typical test and place method.

I am so glad I went to that luncheon!

End of the Year!

The more I look back on the past year, the happier I am with the internship that I had. I had amazing supervisors who were experienced, knowledgeable and maybe most importantly - easily accessible! I got great assessment experienced (SLD traditional, SLD RTI, Autism, ED, MR/ID) as well as experience in counseling and behavior modification. I enjoyed all the kiddos I got to work with this year and I think the ones that made me work and worry the most at the beginning are the ones that I will miss the most.

The job front is still pretty uncertain, but I have 3 major leads for contract work next year. The one that sounds the most promising is one that litterally fell in to my lap as I got a random call from the superintendent of this itty bitty district about an hour outside of town. They only have 80ish students in the entire K-8 district and they (amazingly) like to hire a contractor for 1 day a week psych services. As I am pregnant, I really only want to work 1-2 days a week, so I think contracting is the best bet. I am praying that God will guide me to the perfect district for me next year. I really hope to find one that my role can be something beyond test and place - which is the typical for the county I live in. We shall have to wait and see.

It's so funny to me that I can't wait for summer vacation to begin. Considering this is the first year I will have one! But I am so looking forward to the time off. BUT, I love my job, something I've never been able to say before in my life, so I really look forward to a new year next year, new beginnings, new school, new staff, it will be one more adventure.

Winding down

I have become so absent from this blog lately! The last few months were so crazy with gobs and gobs of assessments to complete, IEP meetings, norming, and all of my school requirements to finish off. Thankfully though, things seem to be winding down. I have two more IEP's to get through and two more students to test (their IEP's will be held next school year), it has been such an amazing year. I feel like my competency in the field has be multiplied by 1000! Sure, I still have tons to learn, but I feel so much better about my abilities. We had a meeting between my supervisors, my graduate internship advisor, and myself about a week ago. At which time one of my supervisors said that he no longer feels like he is supervising me and that when I come to him with questions they are more like a colleague asking another colleague a question. He said he felt I was ready to go. It was so wonderful to hear!

I was able to get my thesis project finished up with zero tears and only one revision (hallelujah!) and I sat in my last class last night. It still doesn't feel real that it is over, but maybe it will become more so after graduation tomorrow. People have already asked me if I am going to go back to start my BCBA certification, but I have decided against it for now. I am ready for a break from school for a bit, that 3 year program was amazingly long. I am glad that I did it, but wish that the job market was a bit more promising. Right now I have pretty much zero prospects for next year. I am praying I can find some contract work in order to stay in the fresh in the field and not get rusty. Thankfully, I do not need to find something full time so that may open up my horizons a bit.

It's been a while

Too busy and exhausted lately to check in here like I should. So here is my current news:

• Didn't get the job :( I was in the top two, but it went to a psych with experience working with the moderate-severe population. 
• I'm going to go after the psych that got the job's current position. 
• I did 9 IEP's in the month of February
• I am finally getting to the point that I don't freak out before my IEP's (hooray!)
• The thesis project is coming along, only 3 weeks to finish - Yikes!

I think those are the highlights. Today I woke up and made a mental list of all the things I hoped to accomplish today at my site. Then remembered that today is a track meet - so there goes all my plans. If I didn't have an IEP this afternoon, it would be the perfect day to play hookey! :)

Still Waiting

No news yet on the job opening. I have heard lots of positive things though. One of my supervisors told me he felt I was definitely one of the top two interviews - so that was positive. I was also told by all three of my supervisors that the special education director was really impressed with me. So that is all good, right? I had hoped to hear the verdict this week - but maybe that is just wishful thinking on my part. The wait is really driving me and the hubs nuts though! :)

My assessment load continues to grow and grow. I think at last count I am around 36 for the year. I feel like I have gotten a GREAT experience though and I genuinely enjoy the assessment process so I happy with my work load.

8 weeks until graduation! So much to get done before then! I REALLY need to get to work on my paper for my project! I finally worked on it a but last weekend, but I need to start getting into the habit of working on it more frequently or I will be crying those last couple weeks!

Interview Day!

So today I had my interview for the school psychologist position. It was pretty unnerving. I honestly don't know how well I did. The last interview I had at this district I walked away from knowing I had nailed it. This one? Not so much. I can't say that I think I did terrible or exceptional so I'll go with "ok."
They basically only asked me five questions:
1. What is your experience working with moderate to severe populations.
2. What sort of assessment would you do for a moderate-severe student. And what would you do if you couldn't do a cognitive?
3. What do you do if a teacher comes to you wanting an english language learner student to be assessed because they are so low.
4. Describe the RTI model and state it's purpose.
5. Do you have any public speaking experience and would you feel comfortable speaking infront of a group of 100 parents?

The last one was a hoot. I said I did have experience and shared about my backgroup and then said I wouldn't be comfortable but I could fake it. It cracked the question asker up. :)
I'm supposed to hear back next week. So now I shall wait. 

ADOS

This week I got to try my hand at the ADOS - twice! I was a nice lady and invited the other intern to join me on my first day. That kid was adorable. Very happy and pretty easy going for a spectrum kid. He just needed to know the progression of the activities - lol - so I was frequently saying things like, "well, first we are going to do a puzzle, then play with some toys, look at some stories, and then we are going to talk a bit." Each step we finished I again would remind him of what was coming next. He was a perfect guine pig for me, because I know kids who are going to be more in the "autism" side rather than just spectrum are probably not going to be as easy to persuade. Second boy was interesting in that he appeared to be embarrassed for some of the activities (face washing, brushing teeth), I wasn't expecting embarrassment. Then he pretty much clammed up when we got to the emotions talk - he had never been mad, sad, happy... couldn't describe it. It really just seemed like he didn't want to. I wasn't able to get through either of the tests completely though, so I will have to finish next week.

I am feeling REALLY uncertain about the job opening at Fairfield and my ability to find work. :( I had thought I would have a pretty good chance at snagging the Fairfield job. I mean, I have done a LOT more than the other intern, and I figured it would really just be between she and I. However, I heard this week who the top six were that were getting interviews. The other intern and myself got in, of course, but so did 3 other previous interns and the star student from the opposing university. *Sigh* my confidence has been flattened.

Emotional Disturbance Eval

Today concluded my emotional disturbance evaluation. I am really happy with how it all came together.
Here is what my eval entailed:
- Observations (classroom, recess, testing)
- Interviews (foster parent, legal guardian, student, teacher)
- WISCV
-VMI (I am not really sure why we gave this - but my sup told me to!)
- WJII Achievement
- CBM - Oral reading Fluency
- BASC2 Student Self Report
- EDDT - Legal Guardian was the respondent.
-Review of records.
The only thing I wish that I had would be rating scales of some sort from the teacher and the current foster parent, but I didn't get them. :(
Today we met and I went over my book of a report. It was a pretty long meeting, but the legal guardian seemed genuinely interested in what he had done with him and what  we planned to do with him. She was extremely complementary to me for making sure she understood each part of the testing. So that made me feel like a did a good job. All in all I think it was a great first go at a emotional disturbance. This report will go in my portfolio!
After the meeting the principal gave me a "fist-bump" and told me I did a good job and my supervisor had no issues with my presentation. Woot!

A Job Has Been Posted

I am still rather in shock. I had been told that the district was hoping to hire a new school psych for next year, but I told myself to not get my hopes up. One of my supervisors has been keeping me up to date on the play by play of the committee he is on to structure the mod-severe program for next year and so I had heard the progression of the position being a .6, then full time, and then lastly a .4 position. I was holding my breath hoping there would be even a part time position and then yesterday I was told that the job had posted. I looked at it and it was a full time gig. WHAT THE HECK?! I am so confused, but excited non the less. Weird thing is that they are only posting the job for one week! I am uncertain why they are doing it so fast, and have a lot of conspiracy theories floating around in my head, but regardless my application will be in the pile by next Thursday. Now I just need to get a handle on my resume and secure some quick letters of reference. I am already nervous!

First initial Mental Retardation IEP

Last week I had the IEP for a student I did an initial evaluation for mental retardation (mr) for. I was crazy uncomfortable before the meeting. I mean, how do you tell someone for the first time that there baby is different and has a mean sounding label applied to them? All morning long (well, after Mr. Z left the house) I rehearsed aloud, practicing what I would say during each of the components of the IEP. Then when I got to the office, Mr. P demonstrated for me how he would go about saying it  - which was extremely helpful. The meeting ended up going as well as it could. The parents definitely blanched a bit in response to the MR label. But after seeing their faces we talked for a bit about what the label does and doesn't mean. They seemed shocked, but at the same time expressed that the diagnosis made sense to them as they could see that this child was very different than his younger sibling. We actually ended up talking more about his placement change in the following school year  as we recommended that he be moved to the moderate-severe program that the school district is starting. All in all, I am happy with how it went. Although I wish I didn't have a reason to.

Cute kids, sad kids, scared kids and sick kids

Since we returned from Christmas Break, it seems like things have been going full force. This week alone I worked on assessments for 6 kids! We are starting to refer some of the reading intervention non-responders for special education testing and then I've got a couple 3 years to do and a couple of parent requests for testing on top of that.

I've been doing a TON of testing with one little one who we are looking at for a possible learning disability. I think she is pretty cute, but I think I am the only one in the school who feels that way. She is very socially immature. As a 2nd grade student, she is behaviorally more like a kindergartner. She tends to crack me up though as you can tell she is used to getting her way at home and she believes she should be able to dictate or negotiate everything to fit her desire - this includes the testing setting. I used a sticker chart with her during testing because I wanted to keep her engaged - it worked. I also would end our testing time with 5-10 minutes of the two of us coloring together (I set a timer on the computer so she KNOWS when we are done). I swear though, she has fabulous negotiation skills. We would do a couple subtests and she would try, "hope about we do one more of these, then color?" And I would again have to remind her of the plan. LOL, I think she's pretty cute, and she obviously has some smarts in her too.

I am loading up on my viatmin c again as everyone seems sick. One of my counseling kids and one that I had been stalking in order to test where both sick this week.  I have been trying to catch a 1st grade for a week and a half now and he finally showed up to school so I swooped in and pulled him to get his testing done. He was so sick. I tried to send him home but the poor little dude stole my heart and said, "I want to stay with you. I like spending time with you." so we did a little bit of work and then I sent him home. Poor baby.

I tried to meet with one of my counseling kiddos only to find out that she had been sent to the dental clinic for the morning. I knew my schedule was going to be extra tight this week so I figured I could just go check on her at the clinic and make sure she was having a good week and then pop out. I walk into the teachers lounge where the dental people were and see my little girl sitting in the waiting area. She avoids eye contact with me and is bouncing her foot up and down and looks completely freaked out. So I sit with her, and sit with her, and sit with her. She is only answering my attempts to get her to talk with one word answers so I am unsure if she even wants me there but I decide to stick with her. She ended up getting half way done then sent to lunch and told she needed to come back for more. So I walk with her to get her lunch and ask her if she wants me to stick around or leave and she finally speaks and says she wants me to stay. So stay I did. Poor pumpkin, I felt her pain. 

My middle school kid threw me for a loop this week. He wasn't one I planned on testing, but I got to the site and heard my supervisor lamenting how she did not want to test him. She had interviewed him the day prior and he was off the walls ADHD. As she seemed like she had a lot of other things she needed to do and didn't particularly care to have to deal with the student I reminded her that she could make her intern do it :) So I took on the kid, not bothering to ask what the assessment was for (my assumption - since it was a middle schooler - was a three year re-eval for Specific Learning Disability). I gave the kid a wisc and he spoke a mile a minute, was very much in need of positive regard, and very unsure of himself. He cracked akward jokes throughout the testing and constantly wanted affirmation that he was doing ok. After the WISC was done we did the Beery VMI (which I haven't done in a YEAR!) followed by the BASC self report. This is where things really got depressing. The kidlet read some of the things outloud and some I helped him on and in the process it became pretty clear that he was a very depressed little boy, he had no friends and believed everyone hated him. He then got to the questions about hearing voices and shared with me that he did. I asked what the voices said to him and he looked down at his hands and said that they told him that he should end it as things would be better if he was gone. This of course led to me asking him if he had ever thought about listening to them and he shared with me that he had previously had two suicide attempts, but he currently did not have a plan/intention to hurt himself. Through some questioning on my part, he was able to list a couple reasons why he wouldn't want to hurt himself and we made a plan as to how he could get in contact with me or my supervisor if he needed to talk. *Yikes* poor kid! Such a sad little one, he's had such a hard life, full of pain and abandonment. :( Needless to say, once I found out why I was assessing him it all clicked: Emotional Disturbance

WISCing away!

I finished giving the WISC today to a little kidlet in the 2nd grade. I didn't actually need to do a cognitive assessment for her since she is already going to qualify for SLD using the RTI model, but I decided I wanted a good look at her ability. She is a really sloppy kid. Has a hard time keeping her thoughts and herself together. She seems to always be running like a maniac to something. I have a pretty good rapport with this little one since I have been working with her on her classroom behavior for the entire school year. She was pretty stoked to come in and test with me and I could tell she really gave it her best shot. I honestly didn't know what to expect for her IQ because she is amazingly low in academics. As a second grader she is only reading about 15 words in a minute, so she is very far below her peers. Even after 15 weeks of reading intervention, her rate of improvement in reading fluency is about .3 :( But, low in behold she is a completely average kid per her IQ of 97. She had really good perceptual reasoning skills, but her memory was her weakest link. It was below average, but not by a ton. So she is definitely a learning disabled kid, but it seems like there is something else amiss with her. Not sure what it is. She is so socially behind her peers, and even her motor abilities seem not quite right. I may have to try something else... maybe a rating scale? I guess though it really wont matter. She will qualify with what I have already done with her, but I am just so curious!

800 hours down

400 to go! Not that I will leave my internship at the end of them, I'm there until June. It will just be nice to have one more requirement done for this program.

Classes for the final semester have started and I am quickly finding out that this semester I won't be going to class very often. Most of the classes meet at most once a month! I've returned to my previous thesis plan, with some tweaks. I am going to present my intervention kids data at my Thursday/Friday sights instead of my other school. So that will mean I need to adjust my previously written lit review a smidgeon as the intervention curriculum is different. No biggie.

My internship class is meeting pretty infrequently too, which I love. When I was doing practicum we had to meet weekly - dumb because most of us were only doing 1 to 2 days of practicum a week and so we really didn't have much to say. When we started internship we were still meeting at least every other week. The Prof would stare at us and expect us to come in with stories or problems that needed to be dealt with. Problem was there really wasn't much to say! We'd end up sitting and staring at each other for the couple hours we had to warm the classroom seats!

I oddly enough don't have much to write about this week. Having Monday off kinda threw off my entire schedule, so I've been just trying to get some things caught up this week rather than starting on anything new as I knew I wouldn't be able to get too far.

My Two Worlds Collided!

I think I have mentioned before, that prior to this internship I worked for six years for the county run human services department as a social worker. As part of this job, I occasionally had to complete child abuse investigations. This week one of my counseling kiddos asked her teacher to find me because she felt "sad." I got an email from the teacher, asking if it was possible for me  to come by. I got the email at around 12:30 and school ended in an hour and a half. It was surprising to get this request because this student is extremely shy and I typically feel like she doesn't want to go with me because she is so timid. BUT early on in our sessions I had told her that if she needed me she should tell her teacher and I would try my bestest to get there. So, although I was at another school site I managed to find a half hour to run to the kiddo's school and pull her with 10 minutes remaining in the school day.

I went to her classroom, still holding my purse since I didn't have time to set it down in the office and pulled her into a private room. When I initially asked her what was up, she started to play shy with me again. Although not my typical style, I was pretty blunt with her and said something along the lines of, "ok girlie, I know something is up or you wouldn't have asked for me. So spill it." She looked at the ground for a couple of moments and then began to share with me that the night prior her mom had "hit" her on her back. My brain seemed to automatically switch back to my old days as an investigator. I started out by asking what had happened before  that and she said that mom was mad at her for not following directions so she hit her on the back. Kiddo said it didn't hurt anymore and gave me permission to check out her back (there were no marks/bruising) she said that mom doesn't typically hit her, but it does happen every once in a while. At this point in time I am kinda uncertain as to what to do. I ask her how she feels about going home that day and she states that she is a little scared. I ended up marching her over to my supervisor who then directed us to the principal. We shared the story with him and he thinks it over and decides to send her home.

Following this I had to run back to my site of the day and get my wits about me to run an IEP. The IEP went fine, but was amazingly chaotic because mom brought three kids under the age of 5 to the meeting. Talk about noisy!

After the meeting as I was desperately attempting to make sense of the mess on my desk following another day of running from place to place my supervisor, Mr. H., calls. Mr. H was checking on me and wanted to hear how everything had worked out with my counseling kid. So I give him the play by play. He advising me against playing investigator in the future (too true - gotta get rid of that programming in my head!) but tells me to follow up with the kidlet the next day. So I did. She was fine. Nothing new happened, but I think I will keep tabs on this topic over the next couple of weeks. I didn't do a child abuse report because I do not feel she is being abused, but should she tell me a similar incident in the future, I may have to change my opinion. Hopefully that isn't the case though!

Cliffs of Insanity!

Ok so maybe my title is a bit overly dramatic, but man oh man have I been running this week! Yesterday I think could have been put down in my personal record book! I did 2 observations, 2 counseling sessions, assessed a kid, progress monitored, met with my behavior mod kids and met with a parent and a teacher. YIKES! I ended up having to run home, grab a sandwich and run to class. Today appears to be close to yesterdays busyness. It's just noon and I have already done a classroom observation, cognitive assessment,  read with a kid and plugged them into a reading intervention group, and done RTI program evaluation on 3 kids in the Tier 3 program. Plus I got stuff ready for this afternoon's IEP. You know what is cool though? Even though I am so busy, I am thoroughly enjoying myself.

The kid I did the cognitive assessment on this morning is my first MR eval. He kept me on my toes as he required CONSTANT redirection and praise. I gave him the Weschler Nonverbal Inventory, and as we went through the Matrix subtest after every answer he gave he had to drum on the table with his hands and then give me a high five. He did stay pretty well engaged during the object assembly. He loved those puzzles, but I could hardly get anything out of him during the coding exercise. His fine motor skills were really poor and writing did not seem to go well.  He would glance up at the key at the top of the page and then completely loose his place on the paper. Poor little dude. He was a drooler too. But, all in all for my first MR cognitive test, I think it went well. Although I at times had to break standardization with the kiddo, I think my results are valid. Overall, his FS was 70, so he is just barely on the line. I saw his adaptive scores were really low too.

IEP's, New Schools, and Trainings - Oh My!

I ended up sitting in the hot seat yesterday for my IEP and facilitated the whole shabang! Other than the fact that I forgot to go over the parent rights (she did get a copy though) I felt it went really well. I wasn't expecting to play facilitator, but I winged it and everyone seemed pleased. The RSP teacher was extremely complementary which made me feel awesome. Mr. H only had one suggestion for me to work on which was that I need to let the other parties say their parts. This is contrary to my inital training in which the psych presented the cognitive/processing/behavioral stuff that they had done AS WELL AS the academic stuff that the Special Ed teacher had done in order to go over the discrepancy. But he shared with me some of the problems that can arise from doing it the way and so I totally see his point. I will now just have to come up with a new game plan for how to best present my information.

Today I start at the Middle School with my new Tuesday Supervisor, Mrs. B. She already has an intern but is being amazingly nice and letting me work with her one day a week so I can get some Middle School hours under my belt. I am beginning to feel much more solid on my roles at my elementary sites (finally!) so I am really looking forward to this new start. I need to get practice with developing behavior support plans and doing manifest determinations and I will have a greater opportunity to do those things at the Middle School setting. So, wish me luck!

Training this morning on Legally Defensible IEPs... Hope it's good. I believe Mr. P and Mr. J (last years practicum supervisor) will be there so at least I should have someone to sit by! Hope it's good.

Busy Busy Busy Week!

The week ahead of me seems to crowded with stuff that it deserved to be labeled Busy X3 as anything less would be in accurate. So here is the run down:
Monday: Start a new assessment/Finish a report/Meet with Behavior Kids/Present at an IEP
Tuesday: Legal Topics Training at County Office/Meet with new supervisor for Lunch/Go with new Supervisor to my new Middle School and get the low-down
Wednesday: Finish Assessments/Reports/ Meet with Counseling Kids/ Chat with VP about Social Skills Group/Read Social Skills Curriculum/ CLASS in the evening
Thursday: On my own at my site/Figure out what's going on with the IEP that's scheduled/Assess a kid/Progress Monitor like 8 Kids/Finish report for that IEP/Facilitate IEP
Friday: Progress Monitor more kids/ Finish assessment if needed/BICM test.

Well... At least I won't be board... right?

Tired Feet

Why did I wear heels today? That was a silly thing to do. Man it was a tough day back, a good day, but a little hard to get back into the routine. I started the day off trying to remember what I had completed assessment wise and what was still needing to be done. Note to self: Next year, write this stuff down so when you get back it is all outlined. I finished up a psych report and emailed it out to all necessary parties, then did a record review for a three year SLD review. I ended up getting that done faster than I thought and was able to pull the little dude in for a bit of testing. He's a 1st grader, been in a specialized academic placement since preschool, previously found eligible for Sp Ed services due to SLD and SLI. I started him out on the WISCIV as he is (per the records) and English Only kiddo, but then as we were doing the WISC I realized what a stupid choice that was because the kids speech is so bad. Oh well, it's not a terrible flop, I will most likely not get a valid Full Scale due to the huge discrepancy between verbal and perceputal reasoning, but we will have to wait and see since I only got through 7 of the 10 subtests with him. I also did some survey level assessment, but there wasn't much of a survey to do because he is very behind in reading (only read 4 correct words per minute on a primer passage). So I will need to finish up with him on Wednesday when I am back at the site and then start filling in the remaining blanks in my psych report.

I also inputted a bunch of stuff into our local SELPA data base, met with a behavior kid, and consulted with the SDC teacher. All in all a very productive day if I do say so myself.

Christmas Break

This is just another reason to add onto my list of loves of the world of School Psychology: Christmas Break! It has been a fabulous, rejuvenating, and relaxing two weeks. Got to go out of town for five days with Mr. Z and my fam to play in the snow, then I still had so much time when I got back. I have watched at least 15 movies, read 4 novels, and taken a bunch of naps! Awesomeness. Mr. Z tells me that Christmas break for him is the half-way point. It's like a reward to making it through the first half of the year. Whatever it is, I like it!

Tomorrow I head back to internship. I don't know if I can say I have reached the level of competency that I had hoped to be at this point of my internship. I think I am close though. I had hoped to be a higher level of independence, but perhaps I had too high of expectations for myself (it wouldn't be the first time.) I am lucky to have the supervisors that I have, and I am getting another one this month as my horizons spread to include junior high as well as elementary. I am looking forward to it, and not trying to overwhelm myself with all the things I have coming up. But as in 17 weeks I will be graduating, there is quite a bit of stuff to do. I need to figure out what exactly I am doing for my research project: I have 3 ideas, but I wont pick one until I get the syllabus for my class that starts next week. I want to know what the specifics are for the project before I start any work on it. But I have in my mind 3 easy research projects, 2 of which I was going to be doing anyway (case study on my BICM kid, and a social skills group) so that would just mean I would need to collect data and figure out a pre and post test/measurement for my social skills kids, which is totally doable. My problem is that I need to know if I will have to do the whole IRB thing, which, if so will mess up my 17 week time table to complete the task. If that is the case I think I will just come up with a survey of some sort... but maybe I have to do a IRB with that too?? I am uncertain. But I am trying not to freak out about it all just yet.

So I've got school to finish: which includes 2 classes, a research project, and completing my 1200 hours. I've got an idea of what to do for my research project, so that is a good start. My hours are solid at the moment, I am over 100 hours ahead of schedule so I should have no problem getting the 1200 finished before May. So at least on the school front I am ok.

The internship should start heating up in the months to come as there are a whole bunch of three year reviews coming up at both of my sites - and as I mentioned - I will be starting at a new site this month with a new supervisor, Mrs. B. I am also going to be starting a social skills group at one of my elementary schools, and I've still got a handful of individual counseling kids that I need to see.

Then there is the whole BICM thing. I am beginning to think it might have been a mistake to jump into this at this time in my school life. BUT I will try my best to get it done. I have decide that this certification falls at the bottom of my list of things to get done. If I can complete it, that'd be awesome. But if not, I am not going to get upset about it. There is always next year when I wont have as many things going on.