SPP 182: Upping Your Report Writing With ClickReport

Join #psychedpodcast as well welcome back fellow school psych, Jenna! You can catch our first episode on ClickReport here: https://www.youtube.com/live/Xl-DgSKMZQ4?si=YrSjuUv93X6_hPR7

Read her story here:

MY NAME IS JENNA AND I HAVE BEEN YOU…

I know how it feels. I entered the field of school psychology because I wanted a career that was intellectually stimulating and allowed me to reach my ultimate goal—helping as many kids as possible. I loved being a school psychologist in the field, however, I often got frustrated about the guilt I felt from not being able to do more to help my students and schools. I felt like I was armed with the knowledge and ability to do so, but my time ended up spent mostly on the monotonous tasks within report writing.

In July of 2016, I went on maternity leave with my first child and began to worry about being able to maintain an appropriate work/life balance when it was time to go back to work. I was gripped with this idea about how to solve the problem of wanting to do the most for everyone with only a finite amount of time per day.

I started to research coding every free moment that I got and began to teach myself how to code. Since this was something very new to me, I was surprised by how much I loved it and how easily I slipped into flow. After a lot of trial and error, I created the first ClickReport smart template and presented my work to my colleagues. I will never forget the silence that seemed to fall upon the room after I was done presenting, then finally one person let out a very long, “WOW”. I will be forever grateful that after that moment my team pushed me to continue to work on this passion project.

I realized that if I could help others be more efficient it would mean that I am indirectly able to help more students. I realized I could make a bigger impact by tackling the problem at the source, and now I am devoting my career to empowering and equipping other educational evaluators to do more and be more for the students who need them.

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