Congratulations to Dr. Laurie Klose, who was just promoted to Associate Clinical Professor, and Dr. Jon Lasser, who was just promoted to Full Professor.
School Psychology student Christina Stanford presented a poster at the American Psychology-Law Society Conference and won second place for best undergraduate paper in 2011. You can learn more about the conference and the awards here. Congratulations Christina!
At a recent practicum meeting, Texas State School Psychology Students learned about visual impairment from the Texas State School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Students tried on simulation googgles to experience different types of impairment.
Texas State University faculty and students will be active at the annual NASP conference in Seattle. A few examples:
In December, Dr. Jantz attended a grant conference in Chicago sponsored by the Monarch Center. He brought back valuable information that will help our program develop a proposal to fund a bilingual (Spanish-English) track in school psychology.
Dr. Jantz is currently completing his book, Working with TBI in Schools: Transition, Assessment, and Intervention (with S.C. Davies (University of Dayton) and E. Bigler (Brigham Young University)) to be published by Routledge.
Graduates Ashley Arnold and Stephanie Mathis are featured on Pflugerville ISD's website promoting school psychology. Congratulations!
The School Psychology Program is pleased to announce that Dr. Cynthia Plotts has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor at Texas State University. Dr. Plotts has made outstanding contributions to the program through her teaching, research, and service. She plays a key role as mentor to students and faculty, and has enriched the program during her tenure here. We congratulate her on this career milestone!
School Psychology Program faculty and students presented at the 2012 National Association of School Psychologists in Philadelphia, PA. Pictured (from left to right) are Catie Rodovsky, Lindsay Tench, Rebecca Stevens, and Jennifer Ayers at the Trainers of School Psychologists poster session. More photos coming soon!
Program faculty have recently been awarded research grants to support their scholarship. Jon Lasser is collaborating with Emily Summers (Department of Curriculum and Instruction) to study the effects of media on girls' self-efficacy and beauty perceptions. School Psychology Student Jennifer Covington has been hired as a Graduate Research Assistant to work on the project. Cindy Plotts and Paul Jantz received a grant to study parents' experiences in the transition back to school from hospital or rehab for their children with traumatic brain injury. School Psychology Student Megan Cotterell has been hired as a Graduate Research Assistant to support this study.
Pictured here are some new faces in the School Psychology Program at Texas State. Dr. Paul Jantz relocated from Idaho to Texas to join the program faculty. He's pictured with our newest cohort.
Front row, seated, left to right: Angela Juliano, Megan Nail, Melissa Piccino, Laura Dolan
Representing TASP, Sarah Church, Jon Lasser, Jennifer Heimbecker, Laurie Klose, Ashley Arnold (and Jeff Luce, not pictured) on the Senate floor, giving testimony on a bill that would allow LSSPs to use the NCSP credential.
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Paul Jantz will join the School Psychology program faculty in August of 2011. Paul is coming to us from Idaho State University. He received his PhD in School Psychology from the University of Northern Colorado. You can view his new faculty website here.
Dr. Laurie Klose was presented with the National Association of School Psychologists Presidential Award for Exceptional Service to Children and NASP at the annual conference in San Francisco last month. Kathy Minke, NASP President, recognized Dr. Klose's unrelenting efforts to advocate for school psychologists. An excerpt from the presentation:
"As you probably know, things are a little bit different in Texas. Where school psychologists are something called LSSPs and get in trouble for using their NCSP credential. And over the past year, Texas NCSPs have started to fight back, challenging the Texas board to do the right thing and let them use the credential that they have duly earned. The fight isn't over, but I wanted to take this opportunity to acknowledge one of the individuals who is leading the charge on behalf of all Texas NCSPs: Laurie Klose."
Holder, C., & Robillard, R. (2011). An argument for self-compassion over self-esteem: The Adolescent Perspective.
Robillard, R., Klose, L., Drzymalla, A. (2011). Professional Response to Response to Intervention in Texas.
Trundt, K., Robillard, R., Holder, C. (2011). Dual language immersion-- An exploration into benefits and best practices.
Klose, L., Lasser, J. (2011). Context-sensitive ethics in school psychology.
The 2010 TASP winner of the Outstanding School Psychologist award at the doctoral level in Dr. Cynthia Plotts. Dr. Plotts is an associate professor in the School Psychology Program at Texas State and was recognized for her excellence.
We are pleased to announce that our program has received full approval from the National Association of School Psychologists through 2016. Click here to see the certificate.
Drs. Klose and Plotts presented a poster at NASP on teacher and student evaluations of the consultation experience. Pictured (L to R) are Texas State University school psychology graduates John Davis and Ashley Arnold, Dr. Cynthia Plotts, current intern Vera Johnston, Dr. Laurie Klose, and current intern Marissa Ximenez.
Texas State University-San Marcos Assistant Professor Dr. Laurie Klose has been elected to the office of President Elect of the Texas Association of School Psychologists (TASP). Dr. Klose has served on the board as the Trainers representative. She brings a great deal of experience and energy to the organization and will work hard to help school psychology shine across the state and beyond.
Pictured at left are Dr. Klose with Steven Prater (Treasurer), Maureen Hicks (Area IV representative), Kelly Anderson (Government and Professional Relations Chair), Ashley Arnold (Conference Chair), and Andrea Dennison (Webmaster).
The School Psychology Program is pleased to announce that out request to replace our MA with the SSP degree was approved by the Texas Higher Education Corrdinating Board. In December of 2008 the University will award its first SSP degrees.
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