How to Manage a Large Caseload Without Working Nights

Present Notes:

This week on SLP Espresso Speak, Hallie is diving into a subject that each school-based SLP with a mile-long caseload wants—easy methods to handle all of it with out burning the midnight oil. ☕📚 In the event you’ve ever lugged a backpack stuffed with IEPs residence (solely to disregard it out of pure exhaustion), this episode is your reminder that you just don’t need to sacrifice your evenings—or your sanity—to be an excellent SLP.

From simplifying prep with versatile assets to setting boundaries that really stick, Hallie shares her tried-and-true methods that allow you to go away work at work. Whether or not you’re sipping reheated espresso between periods or catching this episode in your commute, get able to really feel seen, supported, and geared up with real-life instruments that work. ✨

Save this one—it’s your caseload survival information in podcast kind!

This is what we discovered:

  • Why working smarter (not more durable) is the key to thriving with 65+ college students
  • How one article, recreation, or video can hit a number of IEP targets
  • The magic of no-prep, print-and-go assets (and why they’re not “lazy”)
  • Leveraging purpose banks + digital information instruments for quicker IEPs and studies
  • Creating routines that honor your contract hours (and your peace of thoughts)
  • Why defending your time doesn’t make you a “unhealthy SLP”—it makes you a sustainable one

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00:00:00 Hallie: Hey there, SLP. I’ve a fast query for you. What in case you might have only one guide in your shelf that really will get the challenges of working with center faculty and highschool college students? Effectively, it is right here. Effectively, really, the preorder is right here, however, hey, I am so excited to let you recognize that my model new guide, The Secondary SLP Information, is on the market for preorder. And once you preorder, you get an unique bonus that you just will not wanna miss. It’s filled with actual speak methods, fast ideas, and inspiration that you should utilize together with your center faculty and highschool college students or all yr lengthy.

00:00:40 Hallie: That is the right guide for a guide membership, a grad pupil group, or simply flipping via once you’re caught and in a IEP writing spiral. So head to speechtimefun.com/preorder, or head to my Instagram and ship me a DM with the phrase preorder, and I’ll ship you the hyperlink so you may preorder now. And I can’t wait so that you can get your arms on this guide in November, however the sooner you seize it, the higher the bonus.

00:01:18 Hallie: Welcome to SLP Espresso Speak, the podcast designed completely for speech language pathologists who work with older college students, grades 4 via 12. I’m your host, Hallie Sherman, your SLP behind Speech Time Enjoyable, the Speech Retreat Convention, and the SLP Elevate membership. And I am thrilled to deliver you conversations, methods, and insights that provides you with the jolt of inspiration that you just want. Whether or not you are tuning in throughout your morning commute, on a break in between periods, and even throughout a properly deserved rest time, I’m right here for you each week. Let’s do that SLPs

00:02:01 Hallie: Hey. Hey there, SLP associates. Welcome again to a different episode of SLP Espresso Speak, the podcast that fuels you with actual speak, sensible ideas, and that jolt of inspiration that you could survive and thrive as a faculty primarily based SLP. At this time’s episode is gonna hit in all probability near residence. The best way to handle a big caseload with out working nights. As a result of in case you ever ever left work with a backpack stuffed with unfinished paperwork, IEPs, and progress monitoring types, this one is for you. Help that espresso or possibly you reheat it for the third time, and let’s speak about how we are able to lighten the load and preserve our sanity this faculty yr. Okay.

00:02:45 Hallie: So first issues first. In the event you’re juggling 50 plus college students, I am gonna cease there. I all the time cease my counting at 65. I normally ended my yr round 70 one thing, but it surely bought simply miserable after that. So I ended it. However I do know a lot of you will have caseloads of eighty, ninety, a 100, and also you’re juggling all of it. Plus, mixed with combined teams, restricted planning time, IEP conferences, writing the IEPs, college conferences. You aren’t alone. It’s a lot. However here’s what I discovered after so a few years within the faculty with a big caseload myself and two younger youngsters at residence. You may meet your college students’ targets and nonetheless have a life after 3PM or no matter your contractual time ends.

00:03:39 Hallie: Let’s be actual. The key, it is not working more durable. It’s working smarter with techniques and reusable supplies and assets that may do the heavy lifting for you. So first issues first, let’s speak about utilizing one useful resource for as many teams and targets as potential. That is my one utmost favourite methods to cut back the chaos. In the event you comply with me on social media, what in case you do not but, go forward and comply with me on social at Speech Time Enjoyable and all of the issues. However that is one thing I speak about on a regular basis.

00:04:15 Hallie: One useful resource throughout a number of teams and a number of targets. I am not saying you are concentrating on the identical purpose throughout all of your teams and even each pupil in that group. Sure. Each pupil has a special IEP purpose, and we should honor these. That does not imply you want a totally completely different supplies for each session. You may base use the identical base exercise like a textual content passage, a video, a wordless image guide, a recreation, and you may goal vocabulary, grammar, inferencing, WH questions, summarizing, articulation, social expertise, no matter, all relying on what every particular person pupil wants from that exercise.

00:04:58 Hallie: It is simply altering your questioning, altering your probing, and altering your technique. What does every pupil want? Do they want a visible assist? Do they want chunking of data? Do they want repetition? Do they want a sentence strip, a provider phrase to get began? Do they want it to be taught the technique of context clues? Do they want a graphic organizer? What do they want? You are able to do all of it with one exercise. And you may even use one exercise greater than the way it was meant. You may take a process card recreation from, like, inside SLP Elevate. And it is perhaps for summarizing.

00:05:35 Hallie: You may ask your pupil engaged on predominant thought, a predominant thought query. You may ask your pupil that is engaged on WH questions, a WH query. Even your articulation pupil can nonetheless take part in that exercise. They are often the language mannequin, and so they can use passages bombarded with their sound. Okay. Inside SLP elevate, our month-to-month themes are constructed this fashion. Each single month, you get a model new theme with a wide range of actions which might be simply tailored for use for a wide range of targets. Even our assembly passages include these follow-up actions.

00:06:07 Hallie: You are able to do that one exercise and provides every pupil the graphic organizer that they want, the follow-up exercise that they want. They might all work on their particular person purpose with that very same article. And the duty card video games, once more, you may simply adapt it to work on different targets. Every month, you get YouTube cheat sheets stuffed with prompts for the assorted targets. So you may simply take one factor and use it. We’ve got a lot different issues to fret about in our day. Do not let the supplies overwhelm be one thing that holds you again and one thing that makes you must take a ton of labor residence. Okay?

00:06:46 Hallie: Once more, use one article, one process or recreation, and it may be flexed throughout grade ranges, purpose areas, make it straightforward to prep much less, and nonetheless individualize your periods. It does not make you a nasty SLP utilizing one useful resource all day lengthy. Okay. So now, tip primary. Simplify your prep with no prep and tech instruments. So this is the truth. Most of us solely see our college students, like, a few times every week, and that is not numerous time. So we do not want difficult plans. We simply want efficient ones. So concentrate on constructing a toolbox of no prep supplies which might be seize and go.

00:07:27 Hallie: Articles, graphic organizers, books you can simply seize off the shelf, digital actions that may work on any gadget. All you want is a Chromebook, pill, in case you’re fortunate to have a sensible board, realizing movies, like YouTube movies and utilizing Edpuzzle, video games like Bamboozle, and Google actions, like Google slide actions. I’ve tons of them inside SLP Elevate. Okay? Inside SLP Elevate, you get all of that accomplished for you assets. You get graphic organizers, print and go articles, digital video games, boomedex, database of ed puzzles. So you may simply click on open up a purpose you need, click on a video, and go. Okay? When your prep is easy and repeatable and tech pleasant, it can save you hours every week with out sacrificing your college students’ progress.

00:08:15 Hallie: And in addition in between every session, you may really go to the toilet or jot down that Medicaid billing that you could do as an alternative of getting ready the subsequent periods exercise. You simply use it with the subsequent group as properly. Alright. Step quantity two, save your self time so you are not spending all of your time at work. We’re bringing a ton of labor residence. There is no reward for being the final automotive within the parking zone. Use a purpose financial institution that you just belief. You are writing numerous IUPs, and I do know that crafting targets is usually a main time suck. Having a purpose financial institution already aligned with, like, center faculty and highschool expertise saves you hours.

00:08:49 Hallie: That is why inside SLP elevate, we’ve and we’ve a purpose financial institution that is upgraded by completely different, like, talent ranges, expertise, like social expertise, our tech, life expertise, AAC, issues like that. So you may go there. Okay? They’re practical. They’re measurable. They’re straightforward to trace. They’re and it will prevent time. It is a place to begin. You do not have to make use of it as is. It will provide you with that, like, I by no means considered a purpose like that. Let me generally it may very well be onerous simply to think about issues. So use our purpose financial institution as a place to begin once you’re unsure what to work on. Okay?

00:09:24 Hallie: And in addition when your targets are clear and achievable, progress monitoring turns into a lot extra easy, which brings me to the subsequent tip is making progress monitoring simpler and in addition arising with the purpose simpler. Plenty of occasions that’s what takes a lot time is, you recognize, doing evaluations and deciding how and monitoring that progress. However once we get extra information, once we’re evaluating our college students, we are able to do a greater job of arising with applicable targets for them, after which it makes it simpler to observe their progress. So inside SLP Elevate, we’ve baseline instruments.

00:10:00 Hallie: We’ve got casual evaluation instruments. Okay? We’ve got progress monitoring instruments with the intention to simply use what we’ve, make extra edge extra assured choices in what your college students want. Spend much less time making an attempt to determine it out. And then you definitely’re gonna see the progress as a result of we even have a digital information device and paper information instruments in case you want. After which when it is a while for progress monitoring time, you recognize precisely how they’re doing. You are not scrambling to attempt to determine all of it out. You’ve that info there you can make the most of.

00:10:32 Hallie: When your targets are particular and measurable, like we simply talked about, it is simpler to know what you are in search of. So use SLP elevates fast evaluation instruments, information monitoring instruments, and, in fact, the progress monitoring probes that makes issues much less irritating. Okay? It helps you keep organized and centered so you are not scrambling quarter to quarter. And tip quantity 4, and this one’s a severe one, setting boundaries. That is your pleasant reminder. Your contract hours are there for a cause.

00:11:04 Hallie: Sure. Emergencies occur. IEP season generally hits onerous. However in case you’re staying late each night time or bringing residence tons of labor each single night time, one thing has bought to present. Set some boundaries round once you reply to emails. I do not reply to emails after three. I by no means put my work electronic mail on my telephone. Nope. I solely have a look at it whereas I am at work. Set boundaries round when you are going to plan. Like, I I am solely gonna plan Monday mornings or Friday afternoons earlier than I go away. Set that call and keep it up. Set boundaries round once you’re gonna stroll away from the laptop computer.

00:11:44 Hallie: Set boundaries round, I am gonna take lunch each single day and stroll out of my remedy closet and go discover who’re the college within the room and have a dialog, go for a stroll across the constructing. Get out and transfer your physique and be social and revel in going to work, not being simply set and, glued to the pc. You do not have to be a superhero. You want sensible techniques, okay, reusable assets and the boldness to say that is sufficient for right this moment. Okay?

00:12:16 Hallie: So let’s recap. How are we gonna work smarter, not more durable this faculty yr. If you wish to handle your caseload with out dwelling at compute your faculty or at your pc, Let’s use one versatile useful resource for as many teams and targets as potential. That does not imply we’re gonna goal each purpose with each pupil with the identical purpose. We are able to use one guide, one wordless image guide, one article, one YouTube video, one recreation, one one thing, even when it was not how that purpose was in that useful resource was meant to be utilizing. Use. Simplify your prep.

00:12:5Hallie: What number of are you able to make the most of no prep actions corresponding to even bamboozle, Edpuzzle, Growth Playing cards, Google Slide actions, print and go, assets. I like to simply print out 5 copies of the article and put it in a dry erase sleeve, and I solely want that, like, few copies. And the scholar simply use a dry erase marker and accomplished. Okay? How can we prep much less? How can we use a purpose financial institution to hurry up IEP writing? How can we use instruments corresponding to progress monitoring instruments, casual evaluation instruments, digital information instruments that may assist you collect the data that you just want. So writing studies and progress studies will take much less time and you will be way more assured.

00:13:36 Hallie: And I am gonna throw this one in right here too. How are you going to use templates to your studies? Not saying you are copying and pasting each pupil collectively, however how can we sort of make some templates that can help you simply fill within the info that you just want? There’s nothing incorrect with that. And final however not least, how can we defend our time with agency, form boundaries? And bear in mind, in order for you assist with all of that, ensure you try SLP Elevate. It’s your one cease store for model new charge excessive curiosity themes every month for grades 4 via 12.

00:14:13 Hallie: Themes corresponding to anime, synthetic intelligence, cell telephones, pure disasters, all of the issues. And it comes with assets which might be print and go, digital assets as properly. Additionally, in case you’re a digital therapist as properly, it has all of the digital, boomedecks and issues like that. Additionally comes with a purpose financial institution, progress monitoring instruments, and time saving planning helps. So no extra ranging from scratch. Simply click on. Simply choose, click on print, or click on, and go. In the event you wanna be taught extra about SLP Elevate, you may head to slpelevate.com or on Instagram.

00:14:50 Hallie: Ship me a message with the phrase “membership,” and I’ll ship you info there and reply any questions that you’ve got. Alright. So hope you discovered this episode useful. As all the time, I all the time, in my episodes with a joke. So this is one which possibly your college students may really snort at. Why did the instructor put on sun shades on the primary day of faculty? As a result of her college students had been so shiny. Alright. That’s it for one more week of SLP Espresso Speak.

00:15:20 Hallie: If this episode helped you breathe just a little bit simpler concerning the again to high school chaos, share it with a fellow SLP who may want this reminder, you’ve got this. And bear in mind, I’m all the time right here for you. In the event you wanna ship me any questions you will have on Instagram, I am all the time right here to assist you. It’s my mission. My purpose is that SLPs love what they do each day and keep within the area as a result of your college students want us, and I am right here to assist you. Okay? So till subsequent week, everybody, remember, you are making a distinction. Keep out of bother.

00:16:00 Hallie: Thanks a lot for tuning in to a different episode of SLP Espresso Speak. It means the world to me that you just’re tuning in each week and getting the jolt of inspiration you want. Yow will discover the entire hyperlinks and knowledge talked about on this episode at my web site, speechtimefun.com. Do not forget to comply with the present so you do not miss any future episodes. And whilst you’re there, it might imply the world to me in case you would take a number of seconds and go away me an trustworthy overview. See you subsequent week with one other episode stuffed with enjoyable and inspiration from one SLP to a different. Have enjoyable, guys.

00:16:41 Hallie: Hey there, SLP. I’ve a fast query for you. What in case you might have only one guide in your shelf that really will get the challenges of working with center faculty and highschool college students? Effectively, it is right here. Effectively, really, the preorder is right here, however, hey, I am so excited to let you recognize that my model new guide, The Secondary SLP Information, is on the market for preorder. And once you preorder, you get an unique bonus that you just will not wanna miss. It’s filled with actual speak methods, fast ideas, and inspiration that you should utilize together with your center faculty and highschool college students or all yr lengthy.

00:17:21 Hallie: That is the right guide for a guide membership, a grad pupil group, or simply flipping via once you’re caught and in a IEP writing spiral. So head to speechtimefun.com/preorder, or head to my Instagram and ship me a DM with the phrase preorder, and I’ll ship you the hyperlink so you may preorder now. And I can’t wait so that you can get your arms on this guide in November, however the sooner you seize it, the higher the bonus.

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