The Thriving School Psychologist Collective
Imagine if you could improve your time management, stay connected with a community of school psychologists, and foster self-care during challenging times… all in one convenient and FUN learning portal!
What you get in your annual membership to The Thriving School Psychologist Collective!
ThrivingU Masterclasses
Find better time management, lower stress, and more impact in your school community…beyond testing.
Thriving Students Masterclasses and Microcourses
Done-for-you interventions so you don’t have to piece together resources to support neurodivese students and students with mental health challenges.
Thriving School Psychologist Lounge
Like your teacher’s lounge, only full of like-minded school psychs from around the world! (minus the stale bagels and coffee)
- 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 NASP-approved CEUs while you learn, connect, and grow?
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The Thriving School Psychologist Learning Portal
Everything you need to enjoy your job, no matter your situation. Resources include:
- The Thriving School Psychologist Masterclass
- Reverse Educator Burnout Masterclass
- How To Teach Students Executive Functioning Skills
- How To Teach Coping Skills To Stressed Out Students
- 250+ Thrive Hive TV Microcredential Videos
- Monthly Zoom Call With Dr. Rebecca Branstetter
- The Thrive Drive printable resource center
- Private School Psych Forum
- & MORE!
PLUS… Sign up today & receive our AI For School Psychs Bundle
- Camp Lily: AI For School Psychs Masterclass
- LilyAssist Report Writer
- How To Use ChatGPT Workshop
The Thriving School Psychologist Masterclass
Get the tools to enjoy your job, no matter what your situation (first year through nearing retirement).
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 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 Stability
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.
Reverse Educator Burnout Masterclass
Learn science-backed microhabits that you can practice yourself, and teach your whole school community for a positive work environment and school climate.
Module 1: Filling Your Tank & Boosting Positive Energy
Educators will learn how to tap into their core strengths and protect their positive energy…even when experiencing daily stressors.
Includes a bonus video from Dr. Byron McClure, founder of the Black School Psychologist Network on how to find individual and community strengths in your network.
Module 2: Cultivate Work/Life Balance
Just like balanced tires helps cars go longer and prevent breakdowns, having work-life balance helps you sustain your energy and feel less worn out!
Educators will learn how to recognize when their internal “check engine” light is on so they can take proactive steps to reboot their energy.
Module 3: Build Your Support Network
Want to learn how the magic number of 2 can protect your educators from burnout? This mini-lesson teaches you how!
Includes a bonus video from Jennifer Gonzales, founder of Cult of Pedagogy, on the #1 way to protect yourself from burnout (and toxic energy!)
Module 4: Find Meaningful Moments
So many educators struggle to find time for rebooting their mood and energy in the day. This mini-lesson gives educators practical strategies to identify times of day when they can take “adult recess” and reboot.
Includes a bonus video from Nicole Thompson, Ed.S., founder of GOAT Educators on Trauma Informed Mindfulness.
Module 5: Reduce Frustration
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This module helps educators think differently about their challenges so they move from overworked to empowered to make positive changes, even within challenging bureaucracy.
(A special bonus video from Zaretta Hammond, author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, on self-care as a tool for reducing implicit bias.
Module 6: Protect Your Downtime
This module helps educators discover “productive rest” to boost creativity and problem-solving and reduce stress.
Educators will learn how to build brain breaks in the day (with their students and themselves!)
Includes bonus video from Meena Srinivasan, Founding Executive Director of Transformative Educational Leadership (TEL), on the “Sacred Pause” and the power of the “Secular Sabbath.”
Module 7: Cultivate Healthy Boundaries
When you’re in the helping profession, it’s hard to know how to say “no” to tasks that fall outside of your scope of work. Educators will learn 3 ways to cultivate healthy work/life boundaries.
Includes a bonus video from Dan Triccarico, founder of The Zen Teacher with 10 ways to cultivate healthy boundaries at school and home.
Module 8: Reduce Daily Stress
This module helps educators learn why self-care after work is not enough to prevent educator burnout…and what they can do in just minutes a day while on-the-job, where the stress is actually happening.
Includes a bonus video from Kathy Flaminio, founder of MoveMindfully on how to build self-compassion movement in your day (for you and your students!)
Module 9: Reboot Your Passion
Want to reboot energy and positivity in just minutes a day? These gratitude tools can literally change your brain to scan for the positive and protect you from stress (even in hard times!).
With a special bonus video from Dr. Amy Eva, associate education director at the Greater Good Science Center on how to make gratitude a habit.
Module 10: Cultivate The Thrive Ratio
Want the ultimate burnout prevention tool? This module teaches the #1 way to stay engaged and motivated as an educator.
Includes bonus video from Dr. Niki Elliott, Founder of the Mindful Leaders Project with 3 keys for continuing your thriving journey!
How To Teach Executive Functioning Skills
Learn practical tools to teach executive functioning, in just a few minutes a day, with activities, lesson plans, sample goals progress monitoring.
How To Teach Coping Skills
Help stressed out students get back to learning with these 10 research-based strategies you can use TODAY, with activities, lesson plans, sample goals progress monitoring.
Thrive Hive TV Microcredential Videos
260+ videos from trusted and thriving voices in the field on topics such as: anxiety, healthy screen time, trauma-informed practices, culturally responsive intervention, the science of reading, embracing neurodiversity, and more!
Monthly Thrive Hive Live Zoom Calls
Ask Rebecca and fellow school psychs for support on particular situations at your school sites, go deeper into content, and swap tips with your community – recorded so you can always catch the replay.
Thrive Drive Resource Center
A treasure trove of school psych resources like teacher and parent handouts, sample reports, and counseling activities.
Camp Lily: AI For School Psychs
Learn how to use AI to automate your workflow, improve your student’s executive functioning, and more!
Private Forum
Join TSP members with weekly Facebook live support and a fun place to get daily doses of inspiration – plus collaboration contests (with prizes!) for sharing with each other.
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.
Sign Up Today To Lock In Your Bonuses!
($1895 worth of courses for $899)
Option 1: Click below to join the Fall 2024 cohort with a one time payment of $899
Option 2: Click below to join the Fall 2024 cohort with the monthly payment plan of $99 per month for 10 months
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!
Last chance to join our fall cohort is October 31st, 2024!
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 is a yearly membership and access is for 12 months, unless you renew your membership (which most people do!) 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!).
