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SPP 153 Dr. Mc Gill On School Psychology Training Programs

Join #psychedpodcast as we welcome back Dr. McGill! He’s here to chat about the state of school psychology training programs as well as the replication crisis!

https://education.wm.edu/ourfacultystaff/faculty/mcgill_r.php

Ryan J. McGill is Associate Professor of School Psychology and Chair of the Department of School Psychology and Counselor Education at William & Mary. Prior to W&M, he was a faculty member in the school psychology programs at Texas Woman’s University and Chapman University and was a practicing school psychologist in Southern California for several years. In addition to his current appointment, he is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist (NCSP), and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA-D).

Dr. McGill regularly presents his scholarship at international, national and regional conferences and his work has been published in a variety of journals. He is also an editorial board member for several well respected school and assessment psychology related journals. In 2017, he was selected to participate in the School Psychology Research Collaboration Conference (SPRCC), sponsored by the Society for the Study of School Psychology, as an early career scholar and in 2018, he was an invited participant to the Institute of Education Sciences Advanced Training Institute on Single-Case Research Methods. Additionally, he is the recipient of several early career and research related awards.

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SPP 152: Hacking Deficit Thinking With Byron Mc Clure And Kelsie Reed

#psychedpodcast is thrilled to be chatting with Dr. McClure and Dr. Reed!

https://www.hackingdeficitthinking.com/

Dr. Byron McClure, D.Ed., is a nationally certified school psychologist and founder of Lessons For SEL. He uses research and human-centered design thinking to build empathy, ideate, co-create solutions, and design equitable resources that put the needs of people front and center. While formerly serving as the assistant director of school redesign at a high school in Southeast, DC, he reimagined social-emotional learning within an inner-city community.

Dr. Kelsie Reed, Ph.D. is., a nationally certified school psychologist who, presently works at the elementary school level in Prince George’s County Public Schools in Maryland. She graduated from Loyola University Chicago in 2020 and was the recipient of two university awards for her dissertation titled, “Investigating Exclusionary Discipline: Teachers, Deficit Thinking, and Root Cause Analysis.”

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SPP 151: Progress Monitoring, Data, and Expected Growth

#psychedpodcast has so many questions on progress monitoring. How many data points do you need? How frequent? How do you use rate of improvement numbers? How do you set appropriate goals? Where can you find norms? How do you know what to monitor?

We can think of nobody better to ask than Dr. VanDerHeyden and Dr. Burns! Please join us as we welcome them back for an informative episode.

https://www.springmath.org/amanda-vanderheyden

https://education.missouri.edu/person/matthew-burns/

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SPP 150: Welcome School Year 2022-23!

Join #psychedpodcast as we touch base to discuss how this school year is looking! Teacher shortages. Support staff pulled to cover classes. No bus drivers. COVID. How are you managing? Come chat with us live!

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SPP 149: ACT for Treating Children with Dr. Tamar Black

Join #psychedpodcast as we continue to build our ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) skills! We are pleased to welcome Dr. Tamar Black to speak with us.

Tamar is an Educational & Developmental Psychologist who is an expert in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with children, adolescents and young adults. She has worked as a school psychologist for 19 years and in private practice for 20 years, and has extensive experience providing counselling, conducting assessments, and supervising psychologists.

Tamar is also trained in Compassion Focused Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). She helps her clients achieve great results quickly, teaching life skills they can use for other issues in the future. Tamar works closely with parents, giving them quick and simple strategies to reinforce what she has taught their child. This helps the child take on the strategies learnt in therapy as part of their coping tool kit.

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SPP 148: School Psychology as a Healing Profession

#psychedpodcast is honored to have Dr. Malone back on! Please join us in welcoming NASP’s President Elect

https://profiles.howard.edu/profile/47076/celeste-malone

Celeste Malone, PhD, MS, is an associate professor and coordinator of the school psychology program at Howard University. She received her PhD in school psychology from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Prior to obtaining her doctorate, Dr. Malone received her MS in school counseling from Johns Hopkins University. Her primary research interest relates to multicultural and diversity issues embedded in the training and practice of school psychology. Specifically, Dr. Malone focuses on multicultural competence, the ability to work effectively with diverse populations through the application of cultural knowledge and to demonstrate awareness of and sensitivity to cultural issues. The overarching themes of her research are as follows: 1) development of multicultural competence through education and training, 2) diversification of the profession, and 3) the relationship between culturally competent practice and PK-12 student outcomes. Related to her interest in professional issues in school psychology, Dr. Malone has continuously held leadership positions in psychology professional associations. She currently serves on the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) Board of Directors as the strategic liaison for the social justice strategic goal. In that capacity, Dr. Malone works closely with NASP boards and committees to develop and implement programs and activities to address social justice issues in school psychology and education. Additionally, Dr. Malone is an elected member of the American Psychological Association (APA) Board of Educational Affairs, the governance group which develops policies for education and training in psychology.

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SPP 147: Resilience

We are excited to welcome Dr. Caren Baruch-Feldman back to talk about resilience and the Resilience Workbook for Kids, coauthored with our very own Rebecca!

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SPP 146: Mind-Body Health

#psychedpodcast is excited to welcome Dr. Melissa Bray and colleagues! Melissa A. Bray is a Professor and the Director of the School Psychology program within the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut. She is a Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. Dr. Bray is an elected member of the Society for the Study of School Psychology. She is licensed as a psychologist in the State of Connecticut, holds national certification in school psychology, state certification in school psychology, and licensure in speech language pathology. Since receiving her doctorate in 1997, she has published or has in press over 200 articles, chapters, and reviews in the professional literature along with many books; further she has presented over 150 scholarly papers at national and international conferences. In several studies on faculty productivity it was determined that Dr. Bray was the first or second most prolific contributor to the 5 primary journals in school psychology. Further, she serves as associate editor of the International Journal of School and Educational Psychology and has served as an associate editor of School Psychology Quarterly. Of interest, she is the co-editor of the first Oxford handbook of school psychology. She has also guest edited numerous issues of Psychology in the Schools including topics on video self-modeling, behavior disorders, positive psychology, statistical reform, childhood obesity, counseling, social emotional disorders, equity-based practice, and autism spectrum disorder. As co-principle investigator, she has secured over $2 million dollars in student training contracts. Of particular significance, Dr. Bray was the 2003 recipient of the prestigious American Psychological Association Division 16’s Lightner Witmer Award, the Division’s highest honor given to young scholars. She has also been involved in state, national, and international professional associations including service as Vice-President, Social, Ethical Responsibility, and Ethnic Minority Affairs, and President of APA’s Division 16 Executive Committee. Dr. Bray has also served as Division 16’s convention chair, hospitality suite coordinator, chair of the Division’s publications committee, and as a member of the conversation webinar series. She currently is D16 VP for Membership. Her research interests are in the area of interventions for communication disorders mainly stuttering and selective mutism, mind body health, integrated behavioral health care, and physical health and wellness, especially in the areas of asthma and cancer.

https://education.uconn.edu/person/melissa-bray/#

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SPP 145: Developmental Psychology and SEL

Please join #psychedpodcast in welcoming Dr. Schonert-Reichl!

Dr. Kimberly Schonert-Reichl is an Applied Developmental Psychologist and a Professor in the Human Development, Learning, and Culture area in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She is also the Director of the Human Early Learning Partnership in the School of Population and Public Health in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC. Dr. Schonert-Reichl began her career as a middle school teacher and then was a teacher for “at risk” adolescents in an alternative high school. She received her M.A. from the University of Chicago and her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. She was a National Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Fellow in the Clinical Research Training Program in Adolescence at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry.

Dr. Schonert-Reichl is a renowned expert in the area of social and emotional learning (SEL) research with children and adolescents, particularly in relation to the identification of the processes and mechanisms that foster positive human qualities such as empathy, compassion, altruism, and resiliency. For more than two decades, Dr. Schonert-Reichl’s research has focused on the social and emotional development of children and adolescents in school and community settings. Her current projects include studies examining the effectiveness of classroom-based universal social and emotional learning (SEL) programs including the MindUp, program, the Taxi Dog Educational Curriculum, and the Random Acts of Kindness program. Dr. Schonert-Reichl is also conducting interdisciplinary research in collaboration with neuroscientists and psychobiologists examining the relation of executive functions and biological processes to children’s social and emotional development in school settings.

Dr. Schonert-Reichl has received numerous awards and honors for her work. She is a Fellow of the Mind and Life Institute and a Fellow of the Botin Foundation’s Platform for Innovation in Education. In 2009, Dr. Schonert-Reichl received the Confederation of University Faculty Associations BC (CUFA BC) Paz Buttedahl Career Achievement Award. As the associations highest honor, the award recognizes an individual for sustained outstanding contributions to the community beyond the academy through research or other scholarly activities over the major portion of his/her career. She is also the recipient of the 2007 UBC Killam Teaching Prize in recognition of excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching, and the 2004 Vancouver School Board Recognition Award for her work promoting social responsibility in students. In 2006, Dr. Schonert-Reichl was on the organizing committee for the visit of the Dalai Lama for the “Vancouver Dialogues,” and was the chair of a dialogue between the Dalai Lama and leading educators, researchers, and policy makers on the themes of cultivating compassion and educating the heart. In 2009, she was again in conversation with the Dalai Lama on the topic of social and emotional learning at the “Vancouver Peace Summit,” and she was then featured in a documentary about the event titled 4 Paths to Peace.

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SPP 144: The Problem with Polyvagal Theory

Join #psychedpodcast as we chat with Dr. Max Pearl!

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