PO328: Addressing the Shortage: One School System's Way to Cultivate

  • PMD: 10
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Introduction
  • Poster Session 5: Issues in School Psychology, Education, and Supervision

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. appreciate shortage issues from the university and district lens;
  2. identify a process by which school systems, particularly rural districts, can increase school psychologists; and
  3. identify obstacles and benefits from one district and university's shared collaboration.

Description

Need school psychologists? Discover how one school system partnered with a university to encourage employees to pursue a career in school psychology to recruit and retain qualified school psychologists.

Presenter(s)

Gillian Simon, Cecil County Public Schools
Jennifer Dunlap, Cecil County Public Schools

Contributor(s)

Sarah J. Mingle, Lauri A. Barrowcliff

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