News & Updates

Colorado School Districts:

Do you want help recruiting for your open school psychologist positions?
Every year, we send CSSP board members to the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) Annual Convention.  At the convention, we network with school psychologists from around the nation.  We also will have a booth to advertise school psychologist positions and to recruit out of state candidates.  Our goal is to support our Colorado school districts in recruiting school psychologist to address the shortage of school psychologists in our state. 

If you/your district is interested in partnering with us and advertise your school psychologist positions, we would be happy to distribute flyers for each of you.   
if you are interested in having us advertise your positions at the NASP convention, email Krista Klabo at kristaklabo@gmail.com with all pertinent info and/or send a pdf of a flyer by February 14th.

The Colorado Society of School Psychologists is now accepting nominations President Elect on the executive council of the board.  Members may nominate themselves or other school psychologists who are CSSP members through the following process: nomination materials should be completed and emailed to the Professional Relations committee by February 29th (lwilliamsschoolpsych@gmail.com).  Materials should include:

●              Name of nominee

●              Contact information of nominee

●              Current professional role of nominee

●              Position for nomination

●              Brief nomination statement including: “Why is the nominee qualified to hold the position?”

Descriptions of the open position is included below.  Questions regarding the nomination and/or election process may be directed to Leigh Williams at lwilliamsschoolpsych@gmail.com.

President-Elect – The President-Elect shall take the place of the President whenever the latter is unable to function, shall succeed to the Presidency in case of vacancy, and shall be bound by the agreement to continue as CSSP President during the ensuing year.  As President, responsibilities include calling and presiding at all meetings of the Society and of its Council and appointing the chairpersons of the standing committees and of special committees and task forces.  The President shall be considered a member of all such committees and task forces and oversee all the affairs of the Society.  A further responsibility is to ensure that yearly income and expenditures are subject to fiscal review at the close of the current term.

The CSSP Board of Directors is pleased to present the updated legislative priorities for CSSP. A big thank you to our GPR Chair, Brittany Greiert and our Legislative Chair, Alison Hargarten, as well as our GPR committee for all of their hard work on this!

CSSP Policy Platform 2019.pdf

Below are the results of the votes by membership regarding proposed bylaws changes. All proposals passed.

1)      Bylaws change proposal: To officially add a 6^th level of membership: Early Career membership for early career school psychologists at a reduced membership rate as described on ballot. Rationale: provide a more affordable level of membership for early career school psychologists. Vote: 157 Yes  -  0 No

2) Bylaws change proposal: To remove mention of “mail ballot” to “electronic ballot” as described on ballot. Rationale: increased access and efficiency for membership votes.
Vote: 145 Yes  -  8 No

3) Bylaws change proposal: To change wording to requirements for executive council vote as described on ballot.  Rationale: ensure adequate representation of EC for all votes.
Vote: 156 Yes  -  0 No 

 4) Bylaws change proposal: To change the structure of the executive council from four program areas to three program areas described on the ballot. Rationale: decrease the size of the board and increase efficiency to better align with current professional standards.
Vote:  146 Yes  -  7 No

Thanks to the 280+ attendees of our 2019 fall conference! Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. Attendees attended sessions related to crisis planning, autism identification and intervention, self care, executive functioning, early childhood and much, much more! Our fishbowl raffle was tons of fun and several thousands of dollars were raised to fund student scholarships and early career mini-grants. 

Save the dates for future fall conferences at the Vail Mountain Marriott:
Fall 2020: November 11-14, 2020 
Fall 2021: November 10-13, 2021

HB19-1036 is officially a law!

Amazing grassroots advocacy work by CSSP board members Melanie Potyondy and Sacha Mittelman, along with Brittany Vervalin, and Brad Reimers to get this bill passed.

This bill ensures that National Certified School Psychologists (NCSP) across our beautiful state will receive an annual stipend that recognizes the high level training and professional development needed to maintain this distinction.

Big thanks to Representative Jeni James Arndt for this amazing opportunity for school psychologists.

https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1036

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