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This webinar offers practical strategies to help school psychologists revitalize their report writing process. Participants are encouraged to reflect on their current habits and assumptions while identifying areas for improvement. The session emphasizes the importance of clear, readable, and legally compliant reports that effectively answer referral questions. Dr. Carriere introduces a strengths-based, student-centered approach, advocating for reports that are both useful and understandable. Legal and ethical standards from IDEA and NASP are woven throughout, reinforcing the need for responsible assessment practices. Attendees are provided with a tool for organizing and synthesizing data across multiple sources to support meaningful interpretation. Real-world examples are shared to demonstrate improvements in readability, structure, and individualized recommendations. The session concludes with encouragement to make small, sustainable changes that can lead to powerful, lasting improvements in report writing.

Released in April 2025, this individual webinar can be purchased for $25 (scroll down to purchase). The content in this webinar is intertwined with Domains 1 and 10 of the NASP Practice Model. Schoolpsych.com’s recorded webinars are non-refundable. Attendees who complete this 1.5-hour webinar will receive 1.5 NASP-Approved CPD credit.

This Counts Towards Three Hours of Legal & Ethics:

Renewing your NCSP requires 3 hours in the category of ethics or legal regulation in school psychology. This 1.5 hour webinar counts towards the required 3 hours of ethics or legal regulation in school psychology.

Learning Objectives:

1. Self-evaluate their report writing assumptions and report writing practices

2. Review and recognize the characteristics of useful and understandable reports that comply with ethical and legal mandates

3. Use an organizational tool to support the integration and synthesis of data from records reviews, interviews, observations, and testing to directly address the referral questions with clear and supported findings

Bio:

Dr. Jeanne Anne Carriere is an Assistant Professor in Attallah College’s Counseling and School Psychology Program. She has over 30 years of experience as an educational psychologist working in school and clinical settings. Prior to joining CSP as a faculty member, Dr. Carriere was the Director of UCI Health’s Center for Autism & Neurodevelopmental Disorders’ Families, Agencies, & Schools Together (F.A.S.T.), a multi-tiered service program designed to educate and build collaborative relationships between parents, schools, clinical professionals, and community providers working and living with children with neurodevelopmental disorders. Dr. Carriere currently teaches school psychology fieldwork courses and social emotional assessment. In addition to supervising and mentoring Ed.S. students, Dr. Carriere has taught advanced assessment courses in the Ph.D. in Education program and supports doctoral students through dissertation committee membership.

Her research and practice interests are focused on building collaborative home and school partnerships, comprehensive evaluations of neurodevelopmental disorders, and effective report writing practices.  Dr, Carriere presents and provides professional development at the state, national and international level and is the co-author of the chapter Writing Effective Psychoeducational Reports in the National Association of School Psychologists’ Best Practices in School Psychology, (7th ed.) and is currently working on the second edition of Writing Useful, Accessible, and Legally Defensible Psychoeducational Reports (Wiley, 2014). 

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