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The Educational Therapy Podcast
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Nov 12, 2024 • 12min
337: Important Updates!
Rachel Kapp, M.Ed., BCET, and Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., BCET, share some important updates from the last few months! Big changes comin’!
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Nov 5, 2024 • 12min
336: What Apps to Use to Support Your Learners (Educational Therapy Series)
Rachel Kapp, M.Ed., BCET, and Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., BCET discuss apps in this episode of Learn Smarter: the Educational Therapy Podcast. Their take on apps and support mechanisms may be surprising.
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Other episodes mentioned:
Executive Functioning Series
Ep 303: 3 Questions All Parents Should be Asking Their Learners (Educational Therapy Series)

Oct 29, 2024 • 20min
335: 14 Ways Learners Complicate their Lives (Executive Functioning Series)
Rachel Kapp, M.Ed., BCET, and Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., BCET have previously shared how executive functioning skills impacts all aspects of studenting (in fact, they’ve given this talk several times at various conferences and schools around the United States). Today, they dig deeper into how learners who struggle with executive functioning skills complicate their lives in order to exert control over their time and things.
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Other episodes mentioned:
EF series

Oct 15, 2024 • 14min
333: Steph’s Secret to Getting Kids to Use a Planner (Executive Functioning Series)
Rachel Kapp, M.Ed., BCET, and Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., BCET talk about calendaring and planning again! Steph shares a hack and offers up a freebie that should help reluctant planners see the benefits of exerting control over their time–rather than letting time control them.
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Other episodes mentioned:
Ep 298: Rachel's Calendaring & Executive Functioning Problem (Executive Functioning Series)
Ep 281: Calendar Checklist for College Learners (Executive Functioning Series)
Ep 282: Next Level Calendaring (Executive Functioning Series)
Ep 02: How to calendar
Ep 78: How to Calendar like a Pro (Executive Function Series)
Ep 79: The 4 excuses kids have for not calendaring (Executive Function Series)

Oct 8, 2024 • 11min
332: Test Anxiety (Educational Therapy Series)
Rachel Kapp, M.Ed., BCET, and Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., BCET dig into test anxiety–what it is, why it happens and what to do about it.
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Oct 1, 2024 • 29min
331: My Ed Therapist’s Client Gigi and Why Mistakes are Essential to Learning (Student Success Stories)
Rachel Kapp, M.Ed., BCET, and Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., BCET chat with Gigi, a client of Steph’s at My Ed Therapist. Gigi’s mom, Laura, joined us on episode 198 titled “Trusting your Parental Instincts” which was a part of our Success Stories series. She shares her version of her story and how she came to work with Steph and why she enjoyed sessions with Steph so much. Gigi shares how things have evolved since starting intervention with Steph. She talks about how important advocacy is for her and her natural affinity for leadership as well as why mistakes are so essential for her learning.
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Other episodes mentioned:
Ep 198: Trusting Your Parental Instincts with Laura (Success Stories)

Sep 24, 2024 • 12min
330: The Grades Formula (Educational Therapy Series)
Rachel Kapp, M.Ed., BCET, and Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., BCET talk about why grades aren’t reflective of knowledge alone and why that is frustrating for learners and parents. They chat about how grading is a lagging metric for parents, learners and clinicians. They also discuss the 3 foundational elements that have a crucial impact on grades.
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Sep 17, 2024 • 16min
329: Foreign Language Requirement (Educational Therapy Series)
Rachel Kapp, M.Ed., BCET, and Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., BCET discuss the Foreign Language Requirement for the learners in their practices. They share their ideas and explore alternative but meaningful ways to satisfy this requirement.
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Sep 10, 2024 • 16min
328: Recalibrating Learner-Clinician Relationships for the New Year (Business Practices Series)
Rachel Kapp, M.Ed., BCET, and Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., BCET discuss a really critical event that can happen in the educational therapy process: a recalibration of learner-clinician expectation and relationship. In episode 219 (which was released August 2022) Rachel and Stephanie shared an episode called “Permission to Pivot”. In that episode they talked about permission to pivot with clients, within your business and permission to not have all the answers. This episode is an extension of that conversation, where they talk about how to know when it’s necessary to recalibrate things and share some tips on how to plan for these really important conversations.
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Other episodes mentioned:
Ep 219: Permission to Pivot (Business Practices Series)
Ep 215: The Testing Psychologist Podcast - Why Do Learners Lie and What to Do About It (Educational Therapy Series)
Ep 179: Classic ADHD: Avoidance and Lies with Annie (Success Stories)
Ep 172: Why Learners Lie (Part 1) (Educational Therapy Series)
Ep 175: What to do About Learners Who Lie (Part 2) (Educational Therapy Series)

Sep 3, 2024 • 31min
327: All About Dyscalculia with Dr. Sandra Elliott – Part 2 (Local Professional Series)
Rachel Kapp, M.Ed., BCET, and Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., BCET continue the conversation with Dr. Sandra Elliott, Chief Academic Officer for Touch Math. She shares principles of helping learners with dyscalculia of 4 instructional strategies and learner strategies. She shares Dyscalculia do’s and don’ts. Be sure to subscribe to our Patreon to hear the extended conversation.
Connect with Dr. Elliott: s.elliott@touchmath.com
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Other episodes mentioned:
Ep 326: All About Dyscalculia with Dr. Sandra Elliott (Local Professional Series)