Thriving School Psychologist Course
Imagine if you could stay connected with a community of school psychologists, improve your time management, and foster self-care during challenging times…
- Do you feel isolated? Are you looking for a practical way to stay connected with a group of dedicated school psychologists who are in the same situation?
- Are you always “on”? Are you ready to learn how to practice positive productivity and self-care so you can “shut it off” on evenings and weekends, GUILT FREE?
- Do you need help getting organized? Do you want to hit the professional reset button with an easy-to-follow plan so you have the time to focus on more than just testing and writing reports?
…And how about earning 10 NASP-approved CEUs while you learn, connect, and grow?
Imagine if you could...
Leave your workbag of files AT WORK every afternoon and be done for the day…guilt and worry free.
Be more than a “testing machine” so you actually have time to help kids when they really need it.
Get a daily dose of connection with school psychs who are also positive-minded and interested in expanding their roles beyond testing.
Have “turn on a dime” support and fresh ideas from school psychs across the country…for whatever new challenge crops up for you.
Have access to a curated Google Drive of “Done-for-You” templates and downloadable SEL tools so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel.
Have a personalized
self-care action plan with strategies that you can actually do ON the job, where the stress is actually happening.
You can make a big impact in the world being a champion for students, feel energized to go to work, and have a life outside of work too.
I didn’t feel like I was making a difference doing just testing. Now, 98% of my days is spent being on a team doing intervention support with students, living out my vision I had of being a school psychologist!
— Jennifer T., School Psychologist
Are you ready to be proactive and recharge for the new school year by putting in some time reflecting on what in your job is malleable and what requires a mindset change?
Are you just getting started as a school psychologist and want to keep from getting overwhelmed by the steep learning curve?
No matter what stage in your career you are in, do you want to get expert advice and connect to colleagues who can inspire and support you along the way?
INTRODUCING...
The Thriving School Psychologist Collective™!
An online course and professional learning community just for school psychologists
WHAT WILL I HAVE ACCESS TO?
- 7 on-demand video modules available immediately to watch at your own pace
- The Thriving School Psychologist Kit: Over 100+ pages of downloadable tools to streamline your workflow and optimize your job satisfaction
- Up to 10 hours of NASP-approved CPD credit at no additional charge
ADDITIONAL COMMUNITY SUPPORT
- 10 months access to a confidential closed Facebook group with access to peer support, feedback, new ideas, and collaboration contests as you work toward your personal work satisfaction goals
- 10 live online video Q&A sessions with Dr. Branstetter and a cohort of peers to personalize and problem-solve your unique work situation
- Additional self-study CPD units toward NCSP certification renewal
Hi, I’m Dr. Rebecca Branstetter, author of The School Psychologist’s Survival Guide and founder of the Thriving School Psychologist.
I have tested students in janitor’s closets and elevator shafts. I have spent my days running around, frazzled, and putting out emotional fires all day long. I have ruined soooooo many weekends writing assessment reports. And I have been so stressed about the day-to-day hassles of school bureaucracy that I became that school psychologist I never thought I’d be—cynical, burned out, exhausted, and feeling like my skills were being wasted. Yes, I admit, I’ve cried in my car on the way home from work and fantasized about quitting. Even though I was super organized, I could never successfully manage my insane caseload. I felt frustrated and disillusioned with the career I chose.
After becoming a parent, I realized my stress was going to be my child’s stress. I knew that I was not going to be able to be a happy, emotionally healthy parent and sustain my crazy stress-driven career as a school psychologist. So I dove into the research on the science of job satisfaction vs. burnout and gathered tips about streamlining workflow and coping with the demands of the job from thousands of other school psychologists.
HERE'S WHAT I'VE LEARNED IN MY RESEARCH
- It is possible to break the Test-IEP-Repeat burnout cycle and be more than a testing machine.
- You don’t have to write reports at home, even when you think you don’t have any other choice.
- You can do passion projects with students even if your main role is assessment.
You don’t have to burn yourself to the ground and have no life to be a good school psychologist.
Most of all, after working with over 1500+ school psychologists in the TSP Collective and collaborating, I’ve learned we aren’t meant to do this job alone.
Change is possible.
Because of the TSP Collective, my evenings and weekends are MY evenings and weekends. I completed 90% of my psychological evaluation reports at work this past school year, which meant MUCH more time for my family and friends.
The feeling that I should be writing reports instead is GONE. The guilt from spending time writing reports when I could be enjoying life is GONE. And if I’m being honest, this past school year was by far my most productive year yet. I got more kiddos tested and more reports done than I ever have, and that wouldn’t have been possible with the old habits I had. Thank you!!!
– Jess S. (Georgia)
“Being in the TSP Collective has been life changing! I have implemented many of the strategies, and for the first time in my 10 year career, I can now leave work at an appropriate time and not bring reports home!”
“I needed real, practical strategies, because I was growing to resent parts of my job and feeling like all the work I was putting in didn’t matter. I have loved the collaborative environment and hearing how psychs across the country tackle the same problems! Now, I do so much more than just test and write!”
“I’m not just locked in my office churning out reports anymore. I’m actually a part of the school community, giving them more of what they really need.”
Are you looking for a way to stay connected, learn new skills, and get support with a group of dedicated school psychologists who share your positive vision for student success?
SEE WHAT WE WILL LEARN TOGETHER IN THE THRIVING SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST COLLECTIVE!
Module #1 Less Paperwork, More Time for Kids!
Streamline your workflow with school psychologist specific time-management hacks. You got into this profession to work with kids, not spend hours writing reports and filling out paperwork! This module teaches you how to streamline your assessment work flow to free up time to be with kids, parents, and staff, doing interventions that positively impact the school community.
Module #2 Writing Quality Reports in Less Time
Automate your reports without sacrificing quality. The number one complaint from school psychologists is the amount of time writing assessment reports, which takes away from the rewarding part of the job—working directly with kids, teachers, and staff, and doing hands-on interventions. This Module teaches you how to write quality, consumer-driven reports in less time. Work smarter, not harder!
Module #3 Consulting Your Way from “Testing Machine” into a “Consultant and Intervention Specialist”*
Break the “Test-IEP-Repeat” burnout cycle. I’m about 1000% sure that none of us got into this job to be a gatekeeper to special education services! We got into this profession to help struggling students when they need it most. This Module teaches you how to analyze your referral stream to uncover patterns that create over-referring for testing (and build out your MTSS efforts to address needs earlier!)
Module #4 Dealing with Difficult Relationships*
Hone your consultation skills and protect your energy. When I entered the field as a school psychologist, I was grossly underprepared for the amount of time I would be spending navigating the complex relationships of the job with adults. This Module will teach you how to effectively use consultation tools to diffuse emotionally charged situations, break through resistance during consultation, and help adults change their lenses from “The problem is within the child and you need to test him” to “What can we do now to support the child?”
Module #5 Infusing Counseling and Support Services into Your Day*
Expand your counseling and therapeutic assessment skills. I had this fantasy when I started out in school psychology that I would spend time counseling students in a nice office with ample play therapy and art supplies. Then, I realized quickly that a) I didn’t have an office and b) I was going to be testing and writing reports all the time. My “counseling” time was always crisis counseling. In this Module, you will analyze your current caseload reality and learn ways to increase therapeutic one-on-one student time into your day.
Module #6 Preventing Burnout
Learn how to make self-care a habit during the day. If you’re a new or early-career school psychologist, chances are you may be overwhelmed by the steep learning curve and flood of new information about how to apply best practices in a less-than-ideal situation. If you’re a seasoned veteran, it may be that you have a relative handle on the job demands but are feeling ineffective, exhausted, and cynical. In this Module, you will do a “control audit” and learn what about your current role is changeable and how to cope with what is not.
Module #7 Career Sustainability
Expand your role to do passion projects. Ever wonder how some school psychologists have the staying power to be in the career full time for 30+ years until retirement? Well, I interviewed them to find out! In this Module, you will learn their secrets to long-term career sustainability and healthy work-life balance.
BONUS Tools in Every Module to Stay Motivated, Engaged, and Connected!
Do you want to turn INFORMATION about thriving into actual TRANSFORMATION in your daily life? Many of us “know” that we need to take better care of ourselves and prioritize our learning and professional growth, but don’t carve out the time to actually do it.
That’s why I studied the science of habit formation and built in two ways you can keep moving forward in the course, even during the busy school year.
Every module includes:
- A science-backed practice for building self care in your day–that can be done in just 10 minutes a day! Using the “The School Psychologist’s 10-minute Burnout Prevention” Tool, you will get 7 practical ways to turn information about positive psychology into action (and then you can teach your students and staff how to do it too!)
- Each month, there are prizes for completing the modules. These “Collaboration Contests” are fun and low-key….when you finish a module, you’re entered to win cool School Psych swag, resources for your students, time-saving apps, and more!
BONUS Trainings in How to Use AI to automate your workflow!
Get step-by-step instructions and sample prompts to:
✅ Write emails to parents in any language, at their reading level, and in a parent-friendly tone
✅ Instantly turn sections of your report into more “consumer friendly” language
✅ Write your IEP or counseling goals and generate research-based classroom and home recommendations
✅ Summarize jumbled up notes from a pre-referral meeting into a beautiful background history paragraph instantly
✅ Create counseling or intervention lesson plans aligned with CASEL standards and targeted to a specific age group in 30 seconds
🤯 Write full sections of your reports in SECONDS in your voice and tone
And… we share how to do it without violating student privacy or falling victim to inaccurate or biased information.
Join Me in the next Cohort of The Thriving School Psychologist Collective to get the tools you need and the supportive community you crave.
- 7 On-Demand Online Modules to move you from surviving to thriving
- The Thriving School Psychologist Kit (100+ pages of tools!)
- Up to 10 NASP-approved CPD credits
- 10 Months Access to Private Facebook Group and weekly Facebook Live check-ins with Dr. Branstetter
- 10 Live Zoom Q & A calls with Dr. Branstetter, her team of experts, and your Thriving School Psychologist cohort of peers
- Monthly Collaboration Contests to win tech tools and resources specific to helping school psychologists
- Additional self-study CPD units toward NCSP recertification
LIMITED TIME BONUSES FOR JOINING NOW!
SAVE TIME BONUS #1:
Access to Thrive Hive TV Network! ($99 Value)
No more going down a YouTube rabbit hole to find executive functioning and behavioral support resources for your families!
SAVE TIME BONUS #2:
Learn how to use AI to automate your workflow, improve your student’s executive functioning, and more with Camp Lily!
(Lily is our unofficial mascot in the TSP…your one stop hop to being an AI expert!)
SAVE TIME BONUS #3:
Get one year’s access to Dr. Branstetter’s two most popular Masterclasses at no extra charge! ($598 Value)
BONUS #4:
Get Instant access to your new TSP Community and Resources!
sign up now to LOCK IN YOUR BONUSES!
$1895 worth of courses for $899! $799
Option 1: Click below to join the new August 2024 cohort with a one time payment of $899 $799 with coupon code LILY100
Option 2: Click below to join the new August 2024 cohort with the monthly payment plan of $99 $89 per month for 10 months with coupon code LILY10
Option 3: We accept district purchase orders and offer preferred pricing for groups. Please email sarah@thrivingstudents.com for details or click below for a 15-minute chat to get TSP in your district!
- 7 On-Demand Online Modules to move you from surviving to thriving
- The Thriving School Psychologist Kit (100+ pages of tools!)
- Up to 10 NASP-approved CPD credits
- 10 Months Access to Private Facebook Group and weekly Facebook Live check-ins with Dr. Branstetter
- 10 Live Zoom Q & A calls with Dr. Branstetter, her team of experts, and your Thriving School Psychologist cohort of peers
- Monthly Collaboration Contests to win tech tools and resources specific to helping school psychologists
- Additional self-study CPD units toward NCSP recertification
Are you an individual school psychologist wanting to join the next cohort? Join the waitlist to be the first to know when enrollment is open (and get some early bird bonuses)!
Are you a school district leader? We are pre-enrolling for our next cohort! We accept district purchase orders and offer preferred pricing for groups. Please email sarah@thrivingstudents.com for details or click below for a 15-minute chat to get TSP in your district!
- 7 On-Demand Online Modules to move you from surviving to thriving
- The Thriving School Psychologist Kit (100+ pages of tools!)
- Up to 10 NASP-approved CPD credits
- 10 Months Access to Private Facebook Group and weekly Facebook Live check-ins with Dr. Branstetter
- 10 Live Zoom Q & A calls with Dr. Branstetter, her team of experts, and your Thriving School Psychologist cohort of peers
- Monthly Collaboration Contests to win tech tools and resources specific to helping school psychologists
- Additional self-study CPD units toward NCSP recertification
Are you an individual school psychologist wanting to join the August 2023 cohort? Join the waitlist to be the first to know when enrollment is open (and get some early bird bonuses)!
Are you a school district leader? We are pre-enrolling for August 2023 cohort! We accept district purchase orders and offer preferred pricing for groups. Please email sarah@thrivingstudents.com for details or click below for a 15-minute chat to get TSP in your district!
last chance to join our fall cohort is sept 30th, 2022!
I can’t wait to connect with you. Community is more important now than ever. I hope to have you in the TSP Family soon!
If you have any questions, feel free to send me an email directly at rebecca@thrivingschoolpsych.com.
Cheers,
Rebecca
Rebecca Branstetter, Ph.D.
School Psychologist, Licensed Educational Psychologist, and California Licensed Psychologist #22654
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FAQ
This is a work at your own pace PD program. You have a total of 10 months to watch the modules from when you enroll. The online modules are on-demand (not live) and you can watch at any time convenient to you. The only “live” part is the Q&A calls. But you do not have to attend them live. You can watch the recordings at another time if you wish.
You might set aside time to come to the Q&A session and then something comes up. Not to worry! You can submit a question in advance my team and I will answer it live and put it to the “mastermind” of the other school psychologist participants for their input. Then, since the Q&A live video sessions in are recorded and stored in your online portal, your can listen to them at your convenience.
I always joke that one year of being a school psychologist is a “dog year” of new learning. So, I’ve been a school psychologist well over 140 years! Seriously though, you can learn new strategies all the time. The course will give you new ideas, as well as help you with the mindset to modify what you are already doing to make needed changes.
The longer we are in the field without taking time to learn new things, we can get entrenched in our ways of doing things, feel hopeless to make change, and get burned out. Think of the course like a re-boot and a way to re-energize your passion for the job and protect yourself from burnout. There are also so many new tech tools that we can use to streamline our workflows (even if you are not super tech savvy). There are webinars in the course that share tools ranging from novice (“Tech scares me!”) to advanced (“I’m practically an Excel genius”) that will work for you!
I wish I had this course when I was in my internship year! There are so many “unwritten” rules in the job that are not covered in coursework. This course will give you a preview of what to expect in the job and ways to hit the ground running with the right mindset and behaviors to be efficient, engaged, and avoid the pitfalls of burnout early in your career. However, the course does not count as supervision and is not a substitute for university training (see Course Disclaimer below).
Yes! The course is eligible for up to 10 National Association of School Psychologists (NASP)-Approved CPD credits with the opportunity for additional self-study CPD units toward NCSP renewal available. Participants have the option to submit proof of participation in any of the Modules to earn credits. NASP-approved credits count toward renewing the NCSP, and in some districts, CPD units can even be used for salary advancement. Participation in CPD activities within the course is totally optional (but hey, why not? There’s no additional charge and it’s super easy–just watch the modules, take a short quiz, and boom! CEUs.)
The School Psychologist’s Survival Guide is a jumping off point for the course, but the material will not be redundant. The concepts covered may overlap, but the live course is designed to extend, apply, and refine your practice of the concepts with the ongoing support from Dr. Branstetter and your team of like-minded colleagues. Additionally, there are a number of updated strategies due to the boom of technological tools since the first edition was published. All of the PDFs and Power Tools are brand new!
The beauty of this course is that the concepts are delivered in engaging, interactive webinars, and there is access to Dr. Branstetter and a cohort of school psychologists across the country with different viewpoints and expertise to share. All participants will have the closed Facebook group with the support of Dr. Branstetter as well as colleagues to bounce ideas off of and learn from one another.
Many districts do have funds for professional development that can be used to support school psychologists. Please have your director email sarah@thrivingstudents.com for information about using a purchase order to pay for you to take the course. Discounts are available for 5 or more school psychologists participating in the course.
No. The TSP course is designed to be completed in 10 months. This is to avoid procrastination so you can take control of your career satisfaction during this unique opportunity to step back and reflect on your career. I don’t want you to buy the course and let the strategies languish in your “one day when I have time” folder. This keeps all of us moving towards thriving and not just surviving!
You can purchase the course in a one-time payment at a discounted rate, or spread the payment over the course of 10 months. If you opt for the payment plan, it is NOT a “monthly subscription” model. It is a way to break up the payments if you cannot pay one lump sum. There are no refunds after 30 days from purchase. Individual modules and tools cannot be purchased or viewed separately because the course is an entire transformational experience, and each module builds on and compliments the next.
Accountability partners and fun contests are already built into the course, so you can keep forward progress and apply what you learn in the modules to your life. Basically, there are cool prizes for keeping up with the modules! In this program, you will post your progress in the Facebook forum to be entered to win. Then, winners are announced on the Q&A calls. This structured support will help you keep forward progress (and have a little fun too!).
