We all learn through experience. When I first started working as a school-based SLP, I figured creating a therapy schedule would go smoothly and quickly with a few minor hiccups along the way…
Several dull pencils and worn erasers later, reality set in. Making a speech schedule for a large caseload was no easy task. My efforts to be flexible with teachers left me darting back and forth between classrooms saying things like:
“I know I was going to take Johnny and Jenny on A-Days at 8:30 but would it be okay if I reschedule to C-Days because another teacher told me I need to move his student to A-Day so he doesn’t get pulled from literacy block or specials. Oh, Johnny and Jenny have band every other A-Day at 8:30? No, I can’t do therapy every other week because consistent therapy is important and legally required. I will see if I can move a different group and get back to you.”
After making it through the painstaking and seemingly endless scheduling process, I vowed I would begin the next school year armed to face every scheduling challenge. Now with valuable experience under my belt, I’m proud to say I’ve achieved my goal of making the scheduling process straightforward and smooth, which led to the creation of the Speech Therapy Scheduling Survival Pack. Want to take a peek?
I have found it immensely beneficial to have clear, positive and concise communication with teachers from the very beginning of the school year, which is why I devoted an entire section to teacher communication. This section includes:
– An editable Speech Scheduling Newsletter, explaining the role and importance of speech/language services, service delivery, the scheduling process and setting a positive tone for the school year. There is also “IEP Snapshot Form” {Editable} for teachers to get a sense of student needs.
– Caseload organizer by teacher (for easy newsletter distribution)
– Adorable teacher Candy Bag Tags to set a positive tone for the school year
– Editable teacher and student “Speech-Time Reminder Cards”
There are so many variables that influence how we create therapy groups. To make this process a whole lot easier (and more efficient), I’ve included valuable tips and editable forms to group students according to goals, service delivery and learning styles.
Given the sheer amount of schedule conflicts in a school day (i.e. specials, lunch, recess, literacy block, resource, math…you get the idea), it can be difficult to know when students in different grades are actually available!
Problem solved! This packet includes thoughtful (and editable) forms that will make this process easy and stress-free.
The highlight of this 50+ page editable packet is the Speech Scheduler, which allows you to create your speech schedule in just four easy steps! Here, you will see a step-by-step, photographed method that includes a *highly customized, pre-measured form* for easy schedule creation.
As a bonus, you will also receive attractive, editable templates to display your final schedule when it’s complete!
This editable packet gives you the option of printing in black-and-white or color ink.
Here is a video to show you how this Survival Pack lives up to it’s name!
In case you want to snag a copy for yourself now, check it out at my Teachers Pay Teachers Store!
78 Comments
This would make my life and beginning of the school year so much easier!
I’m starting my graduate internship at a school this fall and I would love to have this in my toolbox!
this looks fantastic!
Pick me! Pick me please!😀
I would LOVE to win this! I am a CF in a public school and this would be a lifesaver!
This would be awesome! Thanks
This would be sooo helpful and make my scheduling headaches go away
This would be such a great resource to have!
Running between schools, all of which are on different schedules, can be very challenging. This would be a tremendous help to me.
Would love this!!! Would definitely help as a new SLP!
This is great!
This looks awesome!!! I would LOVE to win a copy!
I would love to win the giveaway!
I would love to have this!
Wow this sounds amazing! The answer to every school based SLTs problems!
This looks like something that would assist me in downsizing my adaptation of my school schedule with the FIVE school schedules of my school children along with the four college schedules of my college age children combined with my college sorority advisory board schedule as we attempt to mesh it with the athletic schedules of the 5 children and my fiance while we intersperse the remaining 6 other children’s real life lives. CNow we are considering an exchange student as well….. If you think this sounds hectic?? Add two adults with university schedules of their own on top of this as well!!! YES!!! I NEED This product!!!!
I am one of the world’s most disorganized but therapeutically proficient SLPs. This would make both me and my SpEd Director sooooo happy!
Pack looks awesome!
Where has this been for the past 20+ years?
This would be so helpful! I’m heading back to work after 2 years off taking care of my twin babies 🙂
These look so useful!
I’d love to have this! I love that our SLP community is always looking for opportunities to connect and share things that make life just and eentsy bit easier 🙂 Thanks!
This looks good. I always am looking for ways to make scheduling less frustrating. Thanks!
Whoa this will make life so much easier. Thank you for creating this, it will help SLPs not have to reinvent the wheel. Our lives at the beginning of the school year crazy busy enough! Love your website name too, so creative !
This would be so helpful for me as a new SLP.
This looks very helpful for my first year!
Is there really an easy way to get, and stay, organized or am I just dreaming? Sigh…it would be heaven : )
This looks amazing. I love the communication pages
oh I need this for the school year!!!
This would be so useful, it looks amazing!
Even if I don’t win- I will probably be getting this!!
This looks great! I think it would greatly improve my organization and reduce my frustration! I think I’d also be able to better manage and use time at work. You are so creative!
This looks so amazing! It would definitely help when scheduling my crazy days as a contracted therapist in a school, early intervention, preschool, and private practice!!
This product really looks amazing! I’m starting a new job this fall and this would be perfect to help me begin the year organized! I especially like “effortless time slots”
Looks amazing!!
This looks so awesome! I have always wanted something like this to make my life easier!
I can’t think of a better resource for the first week of school! This would save me so much time and my sanity!
This would be awesome. I am a first year SLP in the schools and would love this!
I so look forward to starting my career and that looks like the perfect starting point! May buy it if I don’t win it!
This is great!
This looks like such a great resource for being organized at the start of the year. I am always looking to improve scheduling and organization and this packet looks like the perfect fit..
This looks amazing! Thanks for offering a giveaway!
Great work! This is a great resource for people who are returning to work in the setting.
This would be an amazingly useful tool as a CF in the school system!
This looks anazing!! It would definitely help me get my year off right!
Starting my CF this fall and this would be very helpful!
This pack looks incredible! It would definitely make my school year go more smoothly!
This would be extremely helpful in my future as a SLP!
This looks amazing!
As a new CF starting in the school systems at three separate schools; I’m looking for anything to make my life a bit easier ;D
I have been searching for a way to get organized! This looks awesome!
Looks interesting. I would love to try it!
This packet looks like a complete lifesaver this coming school year with our rising caseloads!
Woohoo! Looks amazing and so helpful! 🙂
I would really love this !
I would love this 🙂
This would be awesome to have for the beginning of the school year!! 🙂
This is great! A very useful resource that would be used daily. 🙂
I’m a brand new SLP fresh out of grad school and starting in the schools next week. This would make my first time scheduling soooooo much easier!
This looks incredible! You obviously put a lot of time and thought into this product.
I need it! Being a new graduate, that would help alleviate the stress I would be in.
Wow! Scheduling is literally the worst part of our jobs. This looks like it’d be a fabulous help! Thanks for all your hard work!
I just graduated and will be starting in a school as a CF, any help is much appreciated!
Your product looks great! This would be so helpful to start the school year!
Looks like a fantastic product! Thanks so much for posting! I’m hoping I’m the lucky winner!
i would love this starting out in the schools! I’m switching settings after ten years and could use all the help I can get!!
I would love to win this!! Great idea! Thanks for the opportunity!
The survival pack looks great! Anyways keen to try new ways to engage teachers and plan my caseload. Fingers crossed
This would be a big help!
This would be an amazing resource to have!
Not only would I appreciate it for myself starting at a new school with new populations and a BLOCK schedule but we have sooo many contractors who really don’t know the lay of the [school-based slp] land plus cfy’s [hopefully!] Please consider me, please 🙂
Please this would be great!
I will be starting my CF this fall and this would greatly help me get organized!
Wonderful work. What a great way to start the school year, organized!!!
What a great way to stay organized!
I’m just starting on my Speech Therapy Journey and any tools I can get my hand to to help are awesome….
I would love to win. Starting new job with ages K-2.
Thank you all for entering the giveaway! A random number generator was used to determine the lucky winner Nora M! The extra good news for EVERYONE is that this item will be 28% off for the big TeachersPayTeachers the Back-to-School Sale this Monday and Tuesday! To take advantage of this discount, simply click on my product link in the blog post and enter the coupon code: BTS15 at checkout!