OTS 153: Gratitude and Growth: Celebrating Milestones with the OT Schoolhouse Community
- Jayson Davies
- Jul 1, 2024
- 29 min read
Updated: Dec 18, 2024
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Welcome to the show notes for Episode 153 of the OT Schoolhouse Podcast.
Have you ever wondered how a podcast can evolve, grow, foster a community, and make a meaningful impact in the field of occupational therapy?
Join us as we celebrate the Journey of the OT Schoolhouse. In this special episode, we'll discuss the growing reach of our Back to School Conference and our vision to reduce the knowledge translation timeline in occupational therapy. You'll meet the dedicated team behind our success and hear our aspirations for the future.
Don't miss this episode packed with gratitude, insights, and exciting updates for the OT community.
Listen now to learn the following objectives:
Learners will identify ways technology and AI can enhance their productivity.
Learners will recognize the essential role of community and collaboration in their ongoing professional growth.
Learners will describe the importance of accessible and simplified communication in the field of occupational therapy.
Guests Bio
In 2017, Jayson founded the OT Schoolhouse website and now supports school-based OT practitioners via courses, conferences, and the OTS Collaborative community.
With experience as both a contracted therapist and an "in-house" employee for two distinctly different districts, Jayson has had the opportunity to appreciate the differences between both small-rural and large-suburban districts.
For over five years, he has been helping therapists implement proactive tiered interventions, support IEP teams with goals and services, and feel more satisfied with the job they are doing as school-based OT practitioners.
Quotes
“ I can not say thank you enough, and I want you to know that I appreciate you for listening and taking this knowledge and implementing, with your students every single day”
-Jayson Davies, M.A, OTR/L
“I very much recognize, especially within a health field like occupational therapy, I can't know everything. It's impossible for me to know everything. But we can bring together people like yourself, who both have questions, and also like yourself who have answers as well.”
-Jayson Davies, M.A, OTR/L
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Episode Transcript
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Hello and welcome to the OT schoolhouse podcast, your source for school based occupational therapy tips, interviews and professional development. Now to get the conversation started, here's your host, Jayson Davies, class is officially in session.
Jayson Davies
Hello, everyone, and welcome to this episode of the OTs schoolhouse podcast. This is episode number 153. And it has been released on July 1. So if you're listening to this on July 1, or during any time of the month in July, happy July, I hope you're enjoying the summer months. I know it's been really hot out there just about across the United States. So I hope you're enjoying some pool days and join some good AC if you're indoors and just having a general leak good time. If you got some es y going on extended school year, hope that's going well. But if not, I hope you are just taking some time to relax and enjoy summer. In this episode, we are doing things just a little bit more low key a little bit more relaxed today. Because it is July is a summer month many of you are not in the daily grind of school based out to you. So actually, my birthday is coming up in two days from now on July 3. And I kind of wanted to use my birthday as a little bit of an excuse just to share a little bit about some of the OT school houses incredible milestones up until today and just going to share with you where we are and talk about our community as a whole here at OT schoolhouse, about some of the things that we have done together that we have achieved with one another over the years. And in case you don't know the OT schoolhouse podcast started about seven years ago, actually in 2017, I believe it was. And it really started off as a passion project between myself and a occupational therapist, Abby, who I worked with, together at the same district here in California and her and I we had this idea to basically start a blog which quickly turned into a podcast and and it became the OTs schoolhouse. And if you've listened to some of the early episodes, you've met Abby on those early episodes. And you know she had a she had very bubbly, she she has a great attitude. And it was such a pleasure, like being able to work with her to really get the OT School House going. And if you listen, you know on more and more episodes, we've talked about how it just kind of over time, Abby eventually moved away from Southern California and we just kind of grew apart, but OT school has continued on. And it has just led to so many amazing things happening not only in my professional career with OG schoolhouse, but just in many other school based OTs professional careers and OTAs professional careers. It's just been amazing to see what has come as a result of the OT schoolhouse starting, you know, when we got started, yes, there were a few blogs on the internet dedicated to pediatric occupational therapy. There wasn't really any podcast dedicated to occupational therapy, maybe one or two but not pediatric really. And so when we started in 2017, like we just wanted to build this online community of therapists because we wanted other therapists really to kind of be able to bounce ideas off of and to have conversations with because we were the only occupational therapist along with one other OTA in our district. And we had the staff meetings, but we're just kind of meeting with one another, we wanted to kind of get outside of that bubble, and have more conversations with more OT practitioners. And well, I can proudly say that we have achieved that here at the OT school house. So I want to say first and foremost, as we get into this episode, thank you so much for being a part of the OT schoolhouse community as a whole, you're gonna hear some numbers, and you are part of those numbers that we talked about today. Because you are here you are listening to those schoolhouse podcasts, you are learning more and more information and you're taking that information and you are implementing it with your colleagues, with your students with the teachers and parents that you see every single day. And I can just not say thank you enough. And I want you to know that I appreciate you for listening and taking this knowledge and implementing it with your students every single day on your campus. And we'll talk more about that in just a moment. So, before I talk about getting to that part Knowledge Translation, I have a whole little segment that I want to talk about that. But I want to start off by just kind of saying again, thank you because the reach of the OT school house has just grown far and wide and and I'm proud of this because you know, this started off as something with just two people. As I mentioned, Abby and I, we got together started with us, and it grew from there and over time It has now grown to what I can best estimate at around 20,000. School Based OT practitioners via email newsletters via this podcast and other social media outlets now have access to the knowledge within the OT schoolhouse in one form or another 20,000 Gosh, saying that number just blows my mind. 20,000 school based practitioners are in some way, receiving knowledge from the OT schoolhouse, and many of you are also participating back and sharing knowledge with myself and other members of the OG schoolhouse, which is just amazing. And this OT schoolhouse, this platform has really allowed me and other therapists to just meet other therapists, both near and far we have seen, I should say, myself, I have met therapists from as far as China, Australia, even the Middle East as part of though to schoolhouse but I've also met therapists that literally live like 10 minutes from me, that I probably would have never let or never met if it wasn't for the OT school house. And I just think that that is absolutely amazing. I've also seen especially within the OT school, house collaborative therapists, not myself, but other therapists meet and collaborate together and mentor one another. And it's just been amazing to see that happen, because it wasn't when the OT schoolhouse started, it wasn't just about myself and Abby sharing knowledge, like we only had about five years of experience in the field at that time. We also wanted to gain knowledge. And I love that part of Og schoolhouse is that I think we all recognize that we have information to share. But we also all recognize individually that we have information to learn. And I think that is part of what makes the OG schoolhouse so amazing. So yeah, thank you so much really appreciate all of you for not only listening, but also sharing and partaking within the community. I love the emails that I get, I love the social media messages and comments that I get, like, half the time, it's people saying thank you, but the other half of the time. It's like full line engagements about you know, like, Oh, this is what I'm doing. In my practice. It's very similar to what you're doing, or this is how it's a little bit different. And I love those conversations, whether they're with me or anyone else within our community. And before I move on, just because we're on that topic of community right now, I wanted to share an experience that recently happened. I don't think I've talked about it on the podcast yet. But back in April at the EO ta conference, Miss Jamie OT you might be familiar with her. She's been on the podcast, she has her own blog and webinars that she does that are amazing. She reached out to me and we put together a little school based OT gathering in the hotel lounge at the AO ta inspire Conference this past April in Orlando. And again, that was just another example of the community building that we do here at OTs schoolhouse and I had the opportunity just in that, you know that that two hour span that we met with people on I think it was Friday night to meet like 50 therapists that came in from all over the country. And we shared stories, we took pictures, we had a drink and enjoy one another's company. And it was really great to be able to put faces to some of the people that have listened to this podcast, some of the people that I've had conversations with over email, and it was just a really cool experience. Meeting people like Alicia Tardif and meeting ape Saffer, a guest on the podcast like meeting these people in person was just a mind blowing experience. And I'm just so happy that that is what has kind of come out of the OT schoolhouse that started seven years ago. It's really been amazing. And again, I know it's not just me making these connections. I don't want this episode to come off as like, oh, Jason so happy that, that he got to make all these connections. But like I enjoyed just watching other people in that moment, make connections as well and to see people grow together, learn together, sharing phone number sharing social media handles that way that they can connect, you know, when everyone leaves the conference and things settle down. I still have business cards here that I'm reaching out to people from the conference. It was a crazy hectic time. But it was also just so amazing to see people come together. All right, and that leads to the next aspect. I guess you could call it the OT schoolhouse that I'm just really proud of and want to share about especially because you listening to this episode, you are a part of this very, this very aspect and the aspect is the podcast itself. This summer, we're celebrating over 150 episodes. This is episode 133 of the otisco House podcast. And then the next number I'm gonna say just blows my mind every time 780,000 Or more than 780,000 downloads of the OT schoolhouse podcast over the past six years. Yeah Six, six and a half years about, and that just blows my mind for two very distinct reasons. The first is that it means that you all appreciate, you know, you come back for more this podcast, you listen to one episode, you listen to two episodes, maybe you listen to 150 episodes, I don't know. But this the podcast is so important to me is something that I really appreciate. And as a business owner, I would love to increase the number of podcast episodes from every other week to every week, because there's just more, there's more value to that, right. Like, if it's every week, we're going to get more downloads, it's going to support you more, it's going to potentially be able to allow us to get more sponsors and whatnot like So from a business aspect, like I have this goal to make it one time a week. But when I sit back and think, Okay, well, what about the real reasons like what, how would turning to once a week actually hinder the podcast. And I think to myself, I never want to sacrifice the quality of the podcast for quantity. And you don't get to see everything that happens behind the scenes here. But a lot of work goes into every episode, because we don't just want to put out noise. And I just say we because it's me and a small team. I'll talk about them in just a little bit. But we don't want to just put out noise, we want to put out quality information interviews with researchers and real practitioners that have evidence behind what they have to share. We want to put out research reviews of articles that, you know, aren't just an article that says More research is needed. We want to put out articles and research reviews for you, that can actually be implemented in your practice. And so while I am just so proud of where we have become and I always have these aspirations, right to like, produce more, produce more produce more, at the same time, we want every episode to be impactful impactful for you. And I think that 780,000 downloads over 150 episodes really does say that there's an impact there. And it just blows my mind. So yes, that's the first reason that I really get blown away by that, that downloads. But the other thing that always comes to my mind is that, especially with the 780,000 downloads is I think about a quote, and I believe it was Susan basic that shared this quote with me on one of the episodes actually of the podcast. And she shared that it takes about 17 years for research to translate to practice. And I really believe here at the OT school house podcast, we're turning that 17 years into 17 months or less. Like we are flipping that completely on its head, we are getting research and evidence based practices to you and every other OT practitioner, the protection of this podcast more quickly, and you are then able to take that evidence and implement it right away. And I just I love that about the podcast, I don't think there is another medium that allows us to do that. Maybe YouTube, but I haven't gotten into YouTube as much yet. But I don't think even the email newsletters are able to do that just because, well, the podcast gives us more time together, it gives us more ability to have conversations to bring on a guest and have that one hour full conversation about the history, the theory behind it and and all the research behind it. And I just don't have that opportunity within the newsletters. And so I think the otisco Hustle podcast expecially allows us to break down that knowledge translation from 17 years and turn it into 12 months or 17 months or sometimes we've had research that goes from it's in the a shot and then we have the researcher on our podcast within just a few weeks or months. And I really think that it is breaking down those knowledge translation barriers. And yeah, I'm just again, super excited for that. So yeah, I just want to again, say thank you so much for listening to this otisco Health podcast, this episode and every other episode that you listen to, I appreciate you and I know your students, the teachers that you serve, and the parents of those students, they all appreciate the time that you spend, even though they don't see it. They appreciate the time that you put in to learning more so you can support their students. And just a fun story, I guess are a few quick notes about the podcast that that some of you don't see. I mean, I've had people that reach out to the podcast or reach out to me after listening to the podcast and like, Jason, how do you sit there and record that entire episode with like, without doing any editing? Like, just me there is editing. In fact, just before I started telling you this short, you know, last 30 seconds, I took a pause and I didn't talk at all during that break while I kind of planned on what I was going to say next. Trust me. This is not just like a live course here on the podcast. There is a lot of editing here, which is to say a lot, but there is a good amount of editing to make it nice and clean for you. But beyond that, I wanted to share that. As I mentioned, the podcast though cheesecloth has allowed me to meet people that I would never have ever dreamed a meeting before. And I know that now when I go to a conference or attend a course in live, some people will will use the term like, starstruck or I feel like I'm in the presence of a celebrity and I, I just like clam up when people say them, like, no, please don't. But I myself to get like starstruck, especially with some of the guests that I've had on the otisco Health podcast, I remember when I believe is Episode 103, I was interviewing two people, Laura, and Helen. And we're going to talk about the coop approach. And literally, it wasn't until I was jumping on the call to record that I realized that I would be interviewing Dr. Pol, a taco. And I had no idea until I literally like hopped in the meeting, that she was not only the creator or CO creator of the copm. But she had also helped to develop the Canadian model for occupational performance and engagement. And my goodness, you should have seen me like I could not speak when we got on the phone with her, or on Zoom. And, yeah, it's just it's just amazing. The things that come out of the OT squads podcast, and a lot of collaborations have come out of the podcast and the otisco has podcast was even cited in an eight shot article recently, within the last year. And again, it's just amazing. And when I was thinking about being starstruck, I got to thinking, well, who is one person that I wish I could have the opportunity to interview on the OT school house podcast, not just for myself, but also for those who are listening in, and the person that came to mind and this is just a fun fact for you for for listening. But I really wish I could have had the opportunity to meet and interview Dr. Aging errs, the creator of the sensory integration theory, right. I have had the pleasure to speak to and train under many therapists who learn directly from her some of them you have heard on this podcast like so we might you and Suzanne Smith rally and every time I speak to them, and anytime that they bring up Dr. Errors, like they get a smile on their face. And they just can't help but like almost chuckle when they're talking about the way that she was able to support children and the way that she went about doing things and, and every time they share about like her explaining things to them, they they almost make it seem like she could take the most complex ideas like something as complex as sensory integration, and talk about it in a way that a child could understand. Like, I have heard about this from her so many times. And even if you go back and look at some of her works, it's almost amazing at the level, like the grade level that that she's almost writing. And we often talk about trying to write in an eighth grade level whenever we're talking to or whenever we're writing reports or emails for parents just because you don't know where someone's going to be at. And when I read her works, and I hear about her, it seems like she was so great at always kind of bringing things down to make them so easily digestible. Don't get me wrong, like you can't always do that when you're talking about words like vestibular and proprioception. But it just seems like she would be such a pleasure have a person to interview to talk to you and, and just bounce ideas off of it. And so, yeah, just something I wanted to add to this little podcast a little fun fact about who I really wish I had the opportunity to meet. And interview it would have been a great episode. For you. I would have enjoyed it. And I hope Dr. Ayers would have enjoyed it as well. All right, moving on from the podcast. The next thing that I kind of want to address because I am very proud of this, especially within the last about a year, year and a half is the weekly OT school house newsletter. And this has been something that we started with a long time ago, we had a blog and a newsletter before the podcast even. But to be honest, I was really not a great writer, I still don't think I'm a great writer. And so I focus more on the podcast because it's easier for me to talk and I'm just I still have to look at the keyboard when I type I'm just not a fast typer but over the last 18 months, I feel like I've really started to find my groove with the newsletter and I will be completely honest and telling you that part of that is because I use AI as an accommodation for myself. I think that I have pretty good ideas or at least I like to think I do and people sometimes share that I do and I am halfway decent at getting those ideas out while speaking. But I'm terrible at getting those ideas out when I'm typing, it just takes too long, my brain is moving faster than I talk. And I know I talk pretty fast, and my fingers just cannot keep up. But AI has really allowed me to kind of put the just down on paper and then have it helped me to expand that. And to help turn my stories into a way that can actually translate into a blog and a newsletter. And that has been something that I've really appreciated over the last 12 to 18 months or so. And I know that many of the OT school house community members like like yourself listening to this podcast, I've appreciated as well, because you're letting me know you're hitting reply and saying thank you or hitting reply and saying, Jason, I was just thinking about that. Thank you so much for this email, or Jason, we just implemented this last week or this year after you had a podcast episode about it a year ago. And this has been just a really great way to get knowledge out to people that either a might not listen to the podcast, or maybe just aren't auditory people. I'm a very auditory person. I love listening to a podcast, I don't read nearly as much as I should. My I think reading and writing processing for me, it's just not a strength, auditory much better. But I know there's other people out there who are the opposite, right? They'd much rather get something in writing as opposed to a podcast. And that newsletter has really allowed us to do that or allowed me to do that. It's really been great. With the podcast, it is a little hard for you to listen to this. And then quickly reply to me, right, like, if you want to reply to this podcast episode right now, you could probably scroll down if you're on Apple podcasts and leave a review. But that's very public, you could go and find my email if you don't already have it. And you could send me a quick email. But again, that takes a little bit of work. But when you are right in front of your email, reading a newsletter, it is so easy to just hit reply and send me a quick reply. And that is what happens every single week I send out a newsletter, people hit reply, and they let me know their thoughts. And I want to give a big shout out to Liz here recently, because she did that she hit reply. And she sent me an email to let me know that the newsletter, and she put it in all caps is the most valuable email in her inbox these days. And, and that just really made my day I really appreciated her for taking that time to, you know, it only took probably 30 seconds for her to send that email. But still, she took 30 seconds out of her day, maybe a minute to put that email together and press send. And I just love receiving that feedback. It really drives me then to create even better newsletters to create better podcast and and I really appreciate that. So thank you, Liz, I appreciate it if you're listening to this episode. Yeah, just really appreciate it. All right, I don't want these next two sections that I'm very proud of and want to talk about to sound like an ad, but I'll kind of put them together. And I just want to say I'm really proud of what has become of the back to school conference, our annual conference that we hold in August. I know many of you have attended that. And also our OTs Grace collaborative community, which is a little bit newer, but continues to grow. And with the back to school conference, this is something we've done now for three years. We're doing it for our fourth year in August. And we are anticipating having more than 450 school based OT practitioners attend our virtual online conference here coming up in August, August 24. And 25th, actually, and it's just going to be great. This has grown every single year that we have hosted it, it really started off as a passion project. And now over 450 therapists are going to attend this online conference this year. And it really is. It's just quite amazing. One of my biggest or one of the things I'm most proud about the back to school conferences, yeah, we have 450 people that will likely attend. But we have in the range of 150 to 200 therapists that have attended all three of the back to school conferences, and most of them are registered for the fourth one. And that's just amazing. I mean, I see these names, I recognize these names, because every year I am seeing them attend the back to school conference. And, you know, it's one thing to say I got so much value out of this, whatever it is, but it's a whole nother thing to say, You know what? I value this and I'm going to come back year after year after year. I really think that the back to school conference is the largest single gathering online of school based OT practitioners learning together collaborating together. It's all within one week and everyone comes on. You have access to the replays for four months, but everyone really kind of comes together that one weekend and really learns together collaborate together. They're communicate with one another. And it's just, it's wonderful, I am so proud to say that this back to school conference has become a real staple of the OT school house. And I just want to see it continue to grow. I have aspirations for one day to be an in person live thing that we can all attend to. But I also want to make it accessible. And so the virtual aspect of it makes it accessible for everyone, right? We are very busy people at school based or to practitioners, we hate missing sessions, because then we have to make up those sessions. Or we just feel bad if we, even if we don't make up the sessions or don't have to make up the sessions, we feel bad about missing a session. And so by doing this virtually, it allows everyone to, to see their students on Friday, attend the sessions on Saturday, Sunday, and then see their students on Monday. And if this conference were in Vegas, or anywhere else, right, like you'd have to fly out on Friday and fly back late on Sunday, or something like that. And you would likely miss therapy time, not to mention, you're also missing time with your family, friends, family, all that good stuff. And so just really proud of the bachelor school conference and what it has become. And likewise, similar with the OT school house collaborative community, which has kind of grown out of the conference, because people were saying, I love the conference. But I want more I want this like to be a year long thing. And so we developed the OTs Grace collaborative community, where we now have over 150 members who, on a weekly basis are kind of logging into our community to find resources to find research to connect to one another to, to learn from our monthly professional development courses from our recorded professional development courses. As members of the collaborative, they're even able to actually earn professional development from listening to podcasts of the otisco Health podcasts are episodes of The otisco House podcast, not this one, because it's not really you know, professional development, where the about many of the episodes that we produce are professional development, where the and we do offer the ability to earn a certificate of completion for listening to those episodes. So yeah, just very proud over about a year and a half. Now, the OT schoolhouse Collaborative has been live. And we have 150 members learning together growing together, sharing their experiences of what they implement together within the community. And it's just been a great way for us to kind of go even deeper than the back to school conference where we're all together for one weekend. This allows us to be together for for months at a time and years at a time and really support one another whether brand new therapist or more experienced therapist, in fact, I was just talking to Christina member, though to squash collaborative the other day. And she shared that she just really values the reliable information she gets from the OT School Health Collaborative, and she knows that it's been vetted. She knows that it's research based. And she also appreciates that it's just so unique to school based OT, she has been a school based OT for less than a year now. But it's just really helped her. And then on the flip side of that another member within OG schoolhouse collaborative Deb, shout out to Deb, if you're listening today. And also Christina, I know you listen to a lot of the episodes so high. But Deb, she is actually now a semi retired occupational therapist up in the northern California area. And she doesn't always have a lot of questions because she has a lot of experience. But she still attends our live professional development meetings, our live mentorship calls that we do our q&a times that we do together because she has so much to offer. She enjoys listening, listening to what members like Christina and other members have to share and have to ask, and she always comes back with insightful ideas. And that's what I love about the community is that again, I mentioned it earlier that though tea schoolhouse is not like a place where Jason knows all and is sharing that information. That's not what it's about. I very much recognize, especially within within a health field, like occupational therapy, I can't know everything. It's impossible for me to know everything. But we can bring together people like yourself who both have questions, and also like yourself who both have or who have answers as well. You have a lot of knowledge. You also have a lot of questions, but pair yourself with another person within the OTs Grace Community. And you can learn a lot from one another. And that's what I really love about the collaborative. So yeah, just super proud of both the back to school conference as well as the OT school house collaborative community. Both of these concepts both of these ones a conference once a community online membership community, but both of them are helping so many therapists combined. I mean if we took all the people that have attended the bachelor school conference, all the people that have been a part of the OT schoolhouse collaborative community, we're talking somewhere close to 2000 OT practitioners total that are learning from one another growing to Gather and becoming better therapists together. Alright, so we've talked a lot about the outputs of OT school house, we talked about the newsletter, we talked about the podcast, the annual conference, the the OT school house collaborative. But there's one piece that we haven't talked about today that the OT school house would not be around for if it wasn't for that. And that is the OT School House team and beyond what you might I don't know what what you might think exists within the OT school house, like how many people we have supporting the OT school house, I do use the term we very often because it is a we it is not just a me here at OT squads, but I must share my appreciation for the team, the small team that we have here at the OT schoolhouse. Yes, I kind of am the team leader per se and kind of produced the podcast. But there is a team with me that helps to put all this together. And there's no way that I could do it on my own. And each person that I'm going to share with you right now has a very important role here at OTs schoolhouse and I want to start with Alice, who's actually the newest member of the OT schoolhouse team. She's an occupational therapist in Utah. And she's actually helping us to develop resources and handouts and other types of very helpful resources for members of the OT schoolhouse collaborative. We're talking like simple handouts that we can provide to teachers or handouts that we can provide to parents at an IEP meeting. Right now we're working on a medical model versus school based OT model, handout like what the difference and similarities are. She's also created a handwriting or several handwriting resources that are available to our members of OTs gloss collaborative, and she's been with us now for a few months. And we're going to continue to grow in our resource libraries for our members. And it's just really awesome that they were able to work together and do this. And I love being able to work with other OT practitioners. Most of the people, about half of them that we're going to talk about today are OT practitioners, some have expertise in other areas, but I could not have team members at OT school house that we're not OTs, like we or OTAs even, but we need people within our field to build up our field, right. So I'm super appreciative of Alice for helping to create many of the resources that we're putting out into the OTs Grace collaborative, and some also just as free support on OTSchoolHouse.com. The next person I want to really appreciate and say thank you to is Jenny, and Jenni Rivera is helping this year too. She's helped me a lot over the years actually some social media, some other things, but this year, she's helping with the back to school conference. And she's really helping to organize it bring it all together into one cohesive event. For all of you that are attending on August 24, and 25th. She's doing a lot making sure that all of our presenters are ready to go and have everything that they need, making sure that all the systems are set up to make a nice, easy flow for everyone. And again, I just want to say thank you to Jenny for helping with the back to school conference this year. I also want to say thank you to Claudia, who helps with some back end support on the website kind of putting up the show notes for the OT squads podcast like this very podcast right. She also helps with some behind the scenes stuff posting within the OT Schools Collaborative, some putting together our events on the OTs go house to collaborative, and she also supports myself with some email management because that gets out of hand as well as customer support. So Claudia, thank you, I really appreciate all the work that you do for the OT school house. I also have to give a big shout out to James my brother in law, who actually edits this episode and every other episode of OT school has podcast. He's in the film industry and and he's kind of taken on the role to edit every episode of the podcast. So if you appreciate how it all flows together and how he makes us sound like we are one coherent one coherent podcast I guess that is James doing the behind the scenes work to edit this episode. And again, I have the ability to edit episodes, but trust me you much your ears should appreciate what James is able to do with editing the show. And then finally, I have to give a huge shout out to Chandler Chandler is a recent occupational therapy graduate who has been working with me now for a year and a half at least and she is basically the assistant producer for the OT schoolhouse podcast. She is really the contact person for all the guests that you hear on this episode. She helps me with scheduling and getting together questions even and really basically make those podcasts a possibility. She is also the OT schoolhouse collaborative community manager where she kind of makes sure that everything is flowing right making sure that everyone is getting their questions answered and making sure that people are able to see the posts that might matter, most of them. As a community manager, Chandler's role isn't to know everything. Her role is to be able to connect the people that have the best answers to people's questions. As I mentioned, I don't have the answers to everything. She doesn't have the answers to everything. But as a community we learn who is really good about knowing stuff about vision, right, if someone's asking a question related to vision, Chandler and I know that Kelsey is like a go to person Kelsey Coronel says a go to person for answering a question about vision, or if someone mentioned something about executive functioning, will chime in with our best to sense right, our best ideas, but then we know to say, Hey, Justin, you might have a great answer for this. Would you mind taking a look at this? That is part of our roles as community managers, her and I we kind of tagged him at the Community Manager role? And yeah, it's just been wonderful. I cannot say thank you enough to Chandler, she is just, I'll say she's just a great find. And I'm really appreciative that her and I have been able to work so cohesively over the last year and a half, almost two years, I think. And yeah, Chandler Thank you, I really appreciate all your help. And the last thing before I sign off today, I again want to say thank you to listening to one to 150 whatever number of episodes you have listened to of the OT schoolhouse podcast, I hope you appreciate every single episode. And if you're listening to this episode all the way through, thank you because this episode had no OT value per se as far as like taking it and going and implementing something with your students later. Tomorrow, today, whatever, whatever it might be next week. But thank you so much for listening to this. I hope you are enjoying your summer, right summers a, hopefully a nice relaxing time, I hope you're taking some time away and with yourself and reading a good book watching bridgerton or whatever it might be. But thank you so much for taking some time out of your day, whether it's on your walk at the gym, during your drive to listen to this episode and every other episode of the OT schoolhouse podcast. I could not do this without you. You are one if not many of those 780,000 downloads like you have taken the OT schoolhouse podcast and made it yours. And I could not be more appreciative of that. Thank you for all your emails, thank you for your reviews of the podcast. Thank you for all your ways of connecting with myself and other members of the OT schoolhouse community, whether that's on Instagram, Facebook, wherever it might be, I appreciate it. So with that, as I conclude, I just want to one more time say thank you so much for checking out the OG schools podcast and listening to this episode. If you want to learn more about anything that I mentioned today, the newsletter The Back to School conference, that collaborative, obviously you know where to find the podcast. But if you want to learn any more about what I've talked today about today, head on over to OTSchoolHouse.com slash episode 153. And we will have links to all the different things that I talked about. So you can find all that there. Or if you're listening to this in Apple podcasts, you might see it right below the playback. And so it should be there as well. Also, I want to put this out there if you feel that the OTs wealth podcast or the OG schoolhouse in general has impacted you in some way. And you'd be so kind to just kind of share that with me, I would love to hear about it. I might share about it on the podcast, if you'll allow me to but I would love to learn about your story and how the OT school has impacted you. Whether it has helped you to get a job whether it has helped you to lower your caseload or move to a workload model or to better support your students, whatever it might be, I would love to hear about it. If you'd like to do that, you can head on over to OTSchoolHouse.com slash impact. Or you can use the link in the show notes. I would love to hear from you. It would be a great little birthday gift I guess you could call it and yeah, it would just be amazing to hear from you. So again, that is at OTSchoolHouse.com slash impact. You can share a little bit about how the OT schoolhouse, podcast, blog newsletter, whatever it is, has impacted you. Thanks again for tuning in. I really appreciate you listening and we'll see you next time on the OT school health podcast. Take care. Bye.
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