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In our new Provider Spotlight, you'll meet Jennifer W., CAGS, NCSP. Jennifer talks about what inspired her to become a school psychologist and her transition to teletherapy. You'll learn some of her favorite activities on the PresenceLearning platform and tips for getting started in teletherapy. https://www.presencelearning.com//provider-spotlight-jenn/

Self-Care Sunday: This post on Edutopia will help you think about how to really take care of yourself this summer after working hard to provide services for students during an intense year. #SPED #teletherapy https://www.edutopia.org/arti/4-ways-take-real-break-summer

Correspondent for The 74, Bekah McNeel, writes "While people used to be skeptical of teletherapy for behavioral and mental health support, that perception is changing with the pandemic." The 74 Million recently interviewed Stephanie Taylor, clinical director of psychoeducational services for Presence Learning, to share her thoughts on the topic. The pandemic forced some changes, she said. Those who anticipate the different settings and the different levels of need are t...he ones who will have the easier transition. Read more! https://www.the74million.org//dallas-proposes-rewrite-to-/ #MHAM #mentalhealth #schoolpsychologist #psychoeducationalservices

Weekend Read: Some excellent suggestions in this MindShift post on how to make sure your students know you accept them for who they are, not what they do. #SLPeeps #OTs #SPED #teletherapy https://www.kqed.org//how-unconditional-positive-regard-ca

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. The CDC has reported that between April and October of 2020, mental health visits to emergency rooms for children ages 5 to 11 increased by 24%, and for adolescents ages 12 to 17 by 31%. With mental health a growing concern, PresenceLearning is proud to partner with school districts across the country to provide online therapy sessions, and help work through their backlogs, deliver timely assessments, to help provide the services students need to support their mental health and well-being. #MHAM

Amid post-pandemic shifts to private schools, teletherapy can play a key role in ensuring students receive essential services. In the latest article in her series for eSchool news, Kate Eberle Walker, CEO of PresenceLearning, shares fresh insights into how technology can meet students where they are. #idea #teletherapy #students #publicschool #independentschool https://www.eschoolnews.com//how-teletherapy-enables-ac/2/

In our new blog post, "How States Can Open up Access to Teletherapy," Kelly Wolfe, PresenceLearning"s Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Regulatory Compliance, sheds light on the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact (ASLP-IC)what this bill means and why it is crucial to a future where all students have accessequal accessto special education and related services in America. #BHSM #MHAM Read about H.B. 1633 here: https://www.presencelearning.com//how-states-can-open-up-/

PresenceLearning is proud to celebrate Pride month! We’re dedicated to working together every day in service of inclusivity and mutual understanding. Our vice president of people, Shanelle Reese, explains her role as an ally and her vision for ensuring the company is one too: Companies can support the LGBTQ+ community by being thoughtful and intentional from day one and by listening, serving as allies, and opening up opportunities for employees to share their lived experienc...es." Read more about her priorities for shaping a team with purpose here and for spreading #inclusivity for all: https://lnkd.in/ghawRVB

The 2021 National Teacher of the Year award goes to Juliana Urtubey, an elementary special educator! This is particularly exciting news for special education, as few special educators have won the national honor. Urtubey, a bilingual educator, connects with students in creative ways to amplify their brilliance. She also serves as an instructional strategist, developing supports to meet students’ differing academic, social-emotional, and behavioral needs. She was a good l...eader, and she would just teach us things in a different way that other people wouldn’t, said one of her former students. Thank you, Juliana, for being a champion for our field and for all students with special needs! #specialeducation #specialneeds #SPEDchat #allstudents #schools

Weekend Listen: NPR's Debbie Elliot interviews Jory Fleming who made headlines in 2016 as the first person diagnosed as autistic to be awarded a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. Now Fleming is sharing what he's learned from his time at the University of Oxford and all the obstacles to getting there. #ASD https://www.npr.org//jory-fleming-shares-what-its-like-goi

PresenceLearning congratulates Chiquita Brooks-Lasure on her confirmation as the first Black administrator to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. As an organization committed to providing equitable access to high-quality therapy, we applaud Brooks-Lasure's tireless efforts to combat health inequities for our nation's most disadvantaged populations. We look forward to working with Brooks-Lasure and her team to ensure every child has the care they need to succeed in and out of the classroom. https://www.nytimes.com//chiquita-brooks-lasure-medicare-m #teletherapy #equityineducation #equityishealth #everychildmatters

Exciting news: Amy Bockerstette will make history later this month as she becomes the first person with Down syndrome to compete in a national collegiate athletic championship, the NJCAA golf national championship. Good luck, Amy. https://www.cbssports.com//amy-bockerstette-to-become-fir/

The Weekend Read: Three white teachers offer 6 points to help you apply Black historical consciousness to analyze and refine teaching of Black history, not just in February but across the whole school year. http://ow.ly/N3fg50DK44U

A study by The European Journal of Special Needs Research suggests that augmented reality (AR) can be a stepping stone to a more inclusive learning experience for students with special needs. #SPED https://www.k12dive.com//students-with-special-nee/594831/

We're grateful for this message from our CEO Kate Eberle Walker and for all of our colleagues who shared their voices. #blackhistorymonth

Self-care Sunday: 8th grade #SPED teacher & "educator of excellence" talks with Chalkbeat Tennessee about her students, teaching in a pandemic, and how her self-care translates into more empathy. https://tn.chalkbeat.org//memphis-special-educator-says-se

Research reported in Futurity finds cats for companion animals may help increase empathy and decrease separation anxiety for children with autism. #ASD #wellbeing https://www.futurity.org/cats-children-with-autism-2500472/

Research insight: "...school districts could also play a role by agreeing to hold the SAT during the school week, rather than on weekends, for the simple reason that low-income students would likely be able to access school meals on those days." https://www.edweek.org//timing-of-food-stamps-can-/2021/02

Our very own Robin Corder's "2020 Idaho School Psychologist of the Year" award was recently featured in East Idaho News. Read more about her work in our Q&A interview on the PresenceLearning Blog. https://www.presencelearning.com/a-school-psychologist-of-/

Self-care Saturday: HS teacher Chase Mielke offers a reflection on how cognitive distortions or "thinking traps" undermine educator well-being. He walks through steps to reframe for greater wellbeing. In ASCD 's Educational LeadershipMental Health for Educators issue http://ow.ly/zy2G50CU31o

PresenceLearning Voices: Honoring Black History

Our special Open House for school psychologists and social workers starts today at 2 pm ET. If you are looking to take your telepractice career to the next level, we encourage you to join us. #LCSWs #schoolpsychologists #teletherapy http://ow.ly/10k150D1KCF

What drives our PresenceLearning team every day is that we care. We help. We love to see children thrive. And we're powerful when we work together! During the holiday season, PL employees joined forces in donating to the Family Giving Tree, as part of an effort to provide more than 30,000 wished-for holiday gifts to children in need. Together we surpassed our company's goal by more than 50%. Thank you team PresenceLearning! @familygivingtree #wecare #wehelp #forthecommunity #forallchildren

We're proud to sponsor our friend Julie Weatherly @jweatherlyesq tomorrow 2/25 at the CASE Winter Workshop. Learn the legal requirements for serving as an LEA Rep from the expert. #2021CASEWW

Are you registered yet for our special Open House? Discover the PresenceLearning differenceand reimagine your teletherapy career in a community with clinical and technical support. Beyond the traditional counseling associated with IEPs, our providers have the opportunity to facilitate a range of innovative, topic-specific small groups designed for all students. #teletherapy #LCSWs #schoolpsychologists http://ow.ly/sepx50D1JBl

This season we celebrate that each one of us is like a snowflake: unique in our own way and powerful when we work together. Wishing you and those around you joy, hope, and strength. The PresenceLearning team. Art: Snowflake by D.J. Svoboda

Results are in for a survey of 800 public school students ages 13-18 about the academic, emotional, & economic effects of COVID-19 for themselves and their families. Education Week breaks it down. https://www.edweek.org//survey-students-want-more-/2020/12

Weekend Long Read from EdSurge: Connecticut is quietly rolling out a solution to the gap in tech & internet access. They're giving every student in K-12 a laptop and paying for their internet. #schoolclosures https://www.edsurge.com//2020-12-15-connecticut-gives-ever

Researchers from Michigan State University have developed a new software tool to assess children's phonological awarenessthe first test of its kind for children with speech and/or language impairment. #SLPeeps https://www.sciencedaily.com/releas/2020//201014160512.htm

Educators share the unique strategies they've used to support students affected by trauma. #well-being http://ow.ly/WRCb50C01PD

Self-care Saturday: An elementary school principal offers a fresh take on work-life balance for educators in this post on @edutopia #wellbeing https://www.edutopia.org//new-way-think-about-work-life-ba

This New York teacher and parent of two children with autism designed her classroom for her neurotypical students to be more like a special education classroom. Her students are thriving. #neurodiverse #ASD http://ow.ly/e7xQ50BZ2UU

Our newest Provider Spotlight is on the Virtually Speaking blog: Lynn W., a school psychologist in our PL Care Network, shares her experience providing services via teletherapy and walks us through "A Day in the Life of a Teletherapist." https://www.presencelearning.com/provider-spotlight-lynn-w/

Our education-focused #votingmatters Monday resource share: KQED National Writing Project and Student Reporting Labs present Let’s Talk About Election 2020 with media produced by middle and high school students across the country. #Vote2020 https://learn.kqed.org/challenges/election2020

What are the experiences of high school students during the pandemic? ACT heard from 13,000 students from 3/264/1 out of 130k registered to take the ACT test. Here's what these college-bound students said. http://ow.ly/yaNV50BTTiV

The new issue of Cerebrum magazine features Art on the Spectrum presenting the work of 5 artists with autism and developmental disabilities. #ASD http://ow.ly/e8rR50BTRRJ

Blind spots are hard to identifyby definition. Articles like this that ask good questions can help us do the necessary work. http://ow.ly/yIyw50BTSyQ

Check out 8 important steps to make sure every child has home internet access from @EducationWeek. http://ow.ly/Qogw50BSG6a

Here's an important guide on @EdSurge by PresenceLearning partner, Dr. Isaiah Pickens. #mentalhealth #schoolclosures http://ow.ly/4Cn750BSFqn

Continuing our education-focused #votingmatters Monday resource share: from Common Sense Media comes a great website for educators and families #Vote2020 https://www.commonsensemedia.org/young-voters-guide-to-soci

Brain Science Sunday: "We know that humans can have positive social encounters with others who are different. Now we have the neurobiological basis -- our brains have apparently developed a frontal lobe system that helps us deal with diversity." http://ow.ly/CCE250BNHV1

Research shows that when adults calibrate their praise by following a few simple rules, students take more academic risks and are inspired to continue learning. Edutopia offers a guide to the right kind of praise for supporting student growth. http://ow.ly/lXDA50BNIOr

Research Friday: Writing by hand creates much more activity in the sensorimotor parts of the brain, researchers at Norwegian University of Science and Technology found. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releas/2020//201001113540.htm