
282 episodes

Learn Smarter Podcast Rachel Kapp and Stephanie Pitts- Educational Therapists
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4.9 • 83 Ratings
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Learn Smarter: the Educational Therapy Podcast is your go-to resource for the parents and teachers of students with different learning needs. We are two educational therapists who are committed to helping parents and educators find easy, simple and FUN ways of supporting learners. We’ll be covering everything from executive functioning to games to feelings to tricks of the trade. Join us on this journey to support your complex and diverse kids.
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279: Educational Therapy in High School with Cooper (Client Success Stories)
Rachel Kapp, M.Ed., BCET, and Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., BCET, welcome Rachel’s client, Cooper, to the podcast. Cooper talks about the impact of educational therapy on his academic journey. He shares what sessions are like with Rachel and they discuss self-advocacy. Cooper talks about his initial reluctance about educational therapy, how he got on board with it and shares how much it has helped him not just in school but outside of school as well.
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How to connect with us:
Join our e-mail list
Rachel’s Kapp Educational Therapy Group website
Steph’s My Ed Therapist website
@learnsmarterpodcast, @kappedtherapy, @myedtherapist -
278: Resilience as a Learned Skill with My Ed Therapist Clinic Director and Educational Therapist Eric Kaufmann
Rachel Kapp, M.Ed., BCET, and Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., BCET, are joined by Eric Kaufmann, the Clinic Director and Professional Educational Therapist from My Ed Therapist. Today he talks about resilience–what it is, what it’s like when a student is resilient, and how to build resilience at school, home, and in life.
Support us on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/learnsmarterpodcast
How to connect with us:
Join our e-mail list
Rachel’s Kapp Educational Therapy Group website
Steph’s My Ed Therapist website
@learnsmarterpodcast, @kappedtherapy, @myedtherapist
Other episodes mentioned:
Ep 173: My Ed Therapist's Eric Kaufmann on Executive Functioning in Males (EF Series)
Ep 192: The Formula For Effort: How to Tell if Your Learner is Trying with Eric Kaufmann (ET Series)
Ep 202: Why We Left the Classroom with MET's Eric and KETG's Katie (Business Practices Series) -
277: Catie Chase – How to Work with a Learning Specialist (Professionals Series)
Rachel Kapp, M.Ed., BCET, and Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., BCET welcome college coach for neurodiverse learners and life coach, Catie Chase. She chats about her previous role as a school learning support specialist and what the ideal collaboration with outside professionals and parents is like. She shares the idea of core competencies of that partnership and she shares about her next steps as an independent consultant.
Connect with Catie Chase: www.catiechase.com
Support us on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/learnsmarterpodcast
How to connect with us:
Join our e-mail list
Rachel’s Kapp Educational Therapy Group website
Steph’s My Ed Therapist website
@learnsmarterpodcast, @kappedtherapy, @myedtherapist -
276: Reair: Online Portal Pitfalls (Executive Functioning Series)
Rachel Kapp, M.Ed., BCET, and Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., BCET dig into everything online portals in this re-air of episode 123. Online portals have long been a sore subject for educational therapists. They are not perfect systems, but they do have so much potential to benefit the lives of learners. Today, Rachel & Steph tackle the pitfalls of online portals that parents, teachers, and students experience.
Support us on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/learnsmarterpodcast
How to connect with us:
Join our e-mail list
Rachel’s Kapp Educational Therapy Group website
Steph’s My Ed Therapist website
@learnsmarterpodcast, @kappedtherapy, @myedtherapist
Other episodes mentioned:
Ep 79: The 4 excuses kids have for not calendaring (Executive Function Series) -
275: Building Learner Confidence with My Ed Therapist’s Educational Therapist Ali Guydan (Local Professionals Series)
Rachel Kapp, M.Ed., BCET, and Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., BCET welcome Ali Guydan, an educational therapist from My Ed Therapist, to the podcast. Ali joins the podcast to talk about what brought her to educational therapy and how she was inspired to create change. She shares her ideas about confidence, how it impacts core beliefs and directly relates to learner effort. She shares her tips and tricks on how to create confidence in learners.
Support us on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/learnsmarterpodcast
How to connect with us:
Join our e-mail list
Rachel’s Kapp Educational Therapy Group website
Steph’s My Ed Therapist website
@learnsmarterpodcast, @kappedtherapy, @myedtherapist -
274: The Silent Suffering of Problem Solving (Executive Functioning Series)
Rachel Kapp, M.Ed., BCET, and Stephanie Pitts, M.Ed., BCET, discuss how problem solving is an often overlooked but major problem for learners. They chat about what they mean by “problem solving” and what it looks like both in and out of the classroom. They also share why this is an important conversation educational therapists should be having amongst themselves, with the learners they work with, and their parents.
Support us on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/learnsmarterpodcast
How to connect with us:
Join our e-mail list
Rachel’s Kapp Educational Therapy Group website
Steph’s My Ed Therapist website
@learnsmarterpodcast, @kappedtherapy, @myedtherapist