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The FINAL book of Summer 2026 for the Educationally Psyched Book Club (EPBC 📚): ✨Never Enough✨ by Jennifer Breheny Walla...
08/31/2026

The FINAL book of Summer 2026 for the Educationally Psyched Book Club (EPBC 📚): ✨Never Enough✨ by Jennifer Breheny Wallace.

Here are our ratings:
📖Readability-wise, this was a breeze to get through! Not a long book and written in a more conversational- style voice that was very accessible. Each chapter had many real-life examples from interviews with students, parents, and educators telling their own stories (⭐️ 5/5)
💡In terms of learning- the book offered some perspectives on why this culture of intense pressure around achievement exists and explored some protective factors from it (⭐️4/5) see picture 2 for our key take aways!
🍎 For applicable next steps, it gave some general ways parents and educators can protect children from the toxic stress that they may experience in highly competitive environments. It definitely was geared more towards what parents could do, but some of it applied to educators as well (⭐️3.5/5) see picture 2 for how!

💗Book club- Please add anything else in the comments that I left off that you feel is important for people to know about this book (positive or otherwise!).
⁉️Anyone else who read this book- Would you rate this book similarly? Did you have the same take aways? Comment to expand on anything we learned or add your own! ⬇️

🚨The Educationally Psyched summer Book Club is officially over for the year 😭! Thank you all so much for reading with me! And even if you didn’t read with us this year, I hope maybe one of our reviews inspired you to pick up the book at another time!

I’m always thinking about books for next summer!! If you think you have one that would be up our alley, please share in the comments!⬇️ And if you’d like me to send you the entire list we’ve built of the books we’ve read in the past, comment 📚 or LIST and I’ll message you!

08/29/2026

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We’re going through the general steps of a students journey through special education and exploring how we as an IEP tea...
08/25/2026

We’re going through the general steps of a students journey through special education and exploring how we as an IEP team (parents and school staff 🤗) can be more student-centered.

First part: The referral process!

I’ve noticed over the years that many students have NO clue they’re being referred for a special education evaluation. This starts us off on the wrong foot, because they may feel confused, upset, lied to, nervous, etc. because no one took the time to explain what was going on 😣

Let’s fix this with developmentally appropriate transparency and opportunities for them to participate! ❤️ Here are some of my ideas.

Share any of your additional ideas in the comments below ⬇️ and let us know how you implement them so we can learn from you! 🥰🥰

Let’s talk about how we can truly value parent input and collaboration in special education 🥰Don’t get me wrong, like I’...
08/21/2026

Let’s talk about how we can truly value parent input and collaboration in special education 🥰

Don’t get me wrong, like I’m sure the vast majority of you do, I have always respected parents in the special education process. However, when I was coming up with my goals for this school year, I found myself wondering if I was truly doing enough to really hear them out. To stay curious instead of shutting down conversations because what they’re concerned about is “typical” or “we’re not seeing it at school.”

As a new mom, I find myself looking at parents differently. Although I work with high schoolers, that student is their parents BABY 🥹🥹🥹 and that thought alone makes my heart burst with empathy whenever I meet with them. So if they’re concerned enough to call a meeting or request an evaluation, I know it’s because they care so deeply about their baby that they’d do anything to get whatever support they need. If we all remember that we’re all doing this because we care about that baby, I think we’ll be able to work together much better 🥰

What do you think?
How do you feel you/your school does with listening to parents? What sort of things make the biggest difference? What do you want to do more of?

Let’s discuss! ⬇️❤️

08/20/2026

👋🏼Special Educators: whether you are new to the job and need to figure out where to start or have been doing this for a while, but have a goal of getting more organized this year around your caseload- this series is for you!

I’m calling it “Organizing Your Caseload 101” because I’m going to walk you through exactly what I do from the moment I get my caseload for the year so that I can keep on top of the hundred of deadlines 😅😅

This is Part 2️⃣ of a 4️⃣ part series where I’ll break down each step/ process.
2️⃣: IEP Scheduling! It is essential for me to have one place where my entire special ed team can keep track of due dates and schedule meetings. Especially if you have multiple case managers, this also helps to make sure meetings aren’t scheduled at the same time double booking staff like interpreters, admin, or speech! I also like breaking it down by month so we get a sense of how busy our month will be!

Next, in Part 3️⃣, I’ll go over how I visually keep track of upcoming due dates so I can backwards plan what I need to do each week!

❓Does this sound helpful to you? Let me know in the comments if you’re excited to hear more/ ask any specific questions that you’ll hope I’ll address in this series ⬇️
📩 Send this to someone who would benefit from learning more too!

08/20/2026

Listening to parents more to understand rather than to respond is one of my big goals this school year. Here are the three mantras I have written in my office now to remind me of this goal!

Chapter 5&6 discussion questions for Never Enough! Check our broadcast channel on IG first and let’s discuss more here! ...
08/19/2026

Chapter 5&6 discussion questions for Never Enough! Check our broadcast channel on IG first and let’s discuss more here! 🥰

Happy first day of school!! Here are my three biggest goals for this school year 🥰 Tell me yours! ⬇️
08/19/2026

Happy first day of school!! Here are my three biggest goals for this school year 🥰 Tell me yours! ⬇️

08/18/2026

This is the truly ✨transcending the game✨!

I’m going to share my goals for the 2026-2027 school year in my next post, but as a preview: one of my biggest goals is to have more students present at/ lead their IEP meetings! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

Is this something you do?
Share below ways that you have students lead or take ownership over their own IEP meetings ⬇️⬇️ im looking for all the ideas!!

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