I was praying about you at 4:50 am.

Here is what I was thinking...

I have this vision.

I have this vision where OTs and teachers work together nationwide.

Scores for reading, writing, and mathematics have improved significantly.

How can we execute this vision?

Creating environments in our schools where OTs and teachers are in the classroom together, not pulled out and working in separate rooms.

So what do I mean?

I envision the OT working with the teacher in the classroom showing the kids how to hold the pencil and sit in their seats.

What grace is there to sit in alternative ways that are acceptable in the classroom to get the work done?

I envision the OT teaching letter formation, teaching what the lines are all about on the page.

I envision the teacher taking over and explaining how letter formation will help kids with overall writing skills.

But we really need to have the team working together, not separately. working separately is not improving these classrooms.

Pullout sessions are only effective for the kids who have major issues.

Kids who are struggling need explicit, systematic, cumulative, and multi-sensory interventions to create their writing skills.

Those are the ones that are that I'm targeting.

Those are the kids that I'm looking for.

Those are the environments that we can create.

We can reduce cases for OTs because we've created this environment where the kids know that we're working together because we are better together.

We are better as a team rather than in isolation.

If we are going to have classrooms where the teachers, the therapist, and the kids all want to be there.

Oh wow, imagine that classroom where everyone is excited to come and be there every day. Wow.

Wouldn't that change the statistics across the nation?

How do we create that environment?

We need to work together.

We need to have this schedule in our lives that is creating a collaboration.

It's creating co-teaching.

It's creating space.

I know you're thinking, how am I going to do this?

How is this going to happen - by creating this togetherness in this co-working and this co-teaching model?

We're going to create space for each other so we have time to get those things done that need to be finished.

Because by doing it together for 15 minutes, you're going to save an hour a day in frustration or even more than that.

If you're interested in learning more about how this all works, come to this free event I'm having on Wednesday night.

Learn how to impact your classroom.

Learn how to create these collaborative environments.

I would love to see you there.

The link will be in the button the show notes somewhere you'll find it.

Connect and join us.

Learn how to change the narrative in your school.

Create time for yourself.

Create better working relationships with the other staff and have happy kids and happy parents because that's what we want, right?

Happy Kids. Happy parents.

And we also want to be happy ourselves.

It's not just about the kids.

It's not just about the parents.

We also want to be able to enjoy going to work.

There's been too much too long where we haven't enjoyed going to work.

Let's change the narrative!

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