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The Educational Therapy Podcast
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Feb 20, 2024 • 13min
299: How to Make Clinical Notes Meaningful (Business Series)
Rachel Kapp, M.Ed., BCET, and Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., BCET discuss clinical notes. They share why notes are important, what they need to do for you as a clinician, and what should actually be documented.
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Other episodes mentioned:
Ep 37: How Educational Therapy Works

Feb 13, 2024 • 23min
298: Rachel’s Calendaring & Executive Functioning Problem (Executive Functioning Series)
Rachel Kapp, M.Ed., BCET, and Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., BCET display their partnership in helping Rachel figure out how to best manage the family calendar moving forward. As the complexity increases and Rachel’s family life gets busier, she realizes that she needs more explicit rules about calendar management and Stephanie and Rachel work through the benefits of making a change, the concerns Rachel has about making a change and Rachel’s action plan moving forward.
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Other episodes mentioned:
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)
Ep 281: Calendar Checklist for College Learners (Executive Functioning Series)
Ep 282: Next Level Calendaring (Executive Functioning Series)

Feb 6, 2024 • 16min
297: Time Blindness (Educational Therapy Series)
Rachel Kapp, M.Ed., BCET, and Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., BCET revisit their earlier discussions regarding time blindness. Today they discuss what it is and why it matters. They chat about some benefits of time blindness and how one’s sense of time can be improved.
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Other episodes mentioned:
Ep 166: How Time Perception Impacts Learners with Dr. Ellen Braaten (Author Series)
Ep 230: 11 Things the Books Don't Tell You About Executive Functioning Skills (Executive Functioning Skills Series)

Jan 30, 2024 • 9min
296: Why (Some) Learners Aren’t Thriving…Yet (Educational Therapy Series)
Rachel Kapp, M.Ed., BCET, and Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., BCET discuss why some learners haven’t started thriving yet and how we should be thinking about these learners, their motivations, and their challenges. They also dig into some ideas of what to do about it!
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Jan 23, 2024 • 7min
295: The Importance of Specificity in Praise and Feedback (Parenting Series)
Rachel Kapp, M.Ed., BCET, and Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., BCET round out their 3 episode arc on how parenting and educational therapy intersect. Two weeks ago they discussed why it’s important for parents to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Last week they chatted about the whys and hows of displaying failure, and today they dig into how praise and feedback should be specific.
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Other episodes mentioned:
Ep 293: How to Let Learners Be Uncomfortable (Parenting Series)
Ep: 294: Displaying Failure (The Importance of making mistakes out loud in front of your children) (Parenting Series)

Jan 16, 2024 • 18min
294: Displaying Failure (The Importance of Making Mistakes Out Loud in Front of Your Children) Parenting Series
Rachel Kapp, M.Ed., BCET, and Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., BCET discuss the importance of failing forward. Last week, they chatted about getting comfortable with being uncomfortable. Today they dig into why you want to show your learner or your partner failure and how to model it effectively in your home.
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Other episodes mentioned:
Ep 293: How to Let Learners Be Uncomfortable (Parenting Series)

Jan 9, 2024 • 13min
293: How to Let Learners Be Uncomfortable (Parenting Series)
Rachel Kapp, M.Ed., BCET, and Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., BCET, discuss the way parenting and educational therapy intersect. For the next 3 episodes, they are chatting about some of the more uncomfortable parts of parenting and how it impacts the work that they do as educational therapists. In this episode they discuss why it is important to learn to be okay with learners failing forward.
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Jan 2, 2024 • 18min
292: How Workflows Create More Free Time in your Business (Business Series)
Rachel Kapp, M.Ed., BCET, and Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., BCET discuss the importance of business workflows today. They discuss how having workflows specifically allowed them to free up time in their businesses, allowed them to teach other people how to do things, and created simplicity for their team and clients.
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Dec 26, 2023 • 54sec
Happy Holidays!
Listen for a special holiday message from Rachel and Steph.
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Dec 19, 2023 • 8min
291: How to Support Reading Comprehension through Inferencing (Reading Series)
Rachel Kapp, M.Ed., BCET, and Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., BCET discuss how inferencing supports reading comprehension. They go into detail about inference, why it’s important, and how to guide readers to thinking, understanding and using inferencing to support reading comprehension.
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Other episodes mentioned:
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