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Or Instead, Download a Form and Mail it In with a Check.

 

You can access a 2008 membership form:

  1. in Microsoft Word format here
  2. or in acrobat .pdf format here.

Mail to:

Kansas Association of School Psychologists

P.O. Box 1801

Emporia, KS. 66801
 
 

Sharing Contact Info

There are very limited research purposes, whose parameters are set in the KASP constituion, for which contact information (including email) of KASP members will be shared outside of our organization. Those purposes further the profession of school psychology or otherwise serve KASP's mission, and have arisen twice in the past five years. Those rare instances aside, as a stated policy we do NOT share your email address and other personal information. We must have your email address if you are to receive an electronic copy of the newsletter and other mailings such as previews of upcoming professional development opportunities. Please set your spam filter to assure it accepts email from keelypersinger@yahoo.com.
 

 
 

Membership: Runs from January 1st to December 31st of the calendar year.

Look to the left to access membership forms.

Benefits

 

When most think of KASP membership, they main benefit to come to mind is probably the most tangible one, that of special pricing to attend the annual KASP conference. Also tangible is our quarterly newsletter, formerly The Examiner. But besides this, you may not be aware that:

  1. KASP membership conveys low or at-cost pricing to attend special training opportunities available outside of the conference, such an official PREPaRE crisis intervention/recovery workshop to be hosted at two different sites by fall 2009: More details about these workshops and how to reserve a space will be in the next newsletter and on the website.
  2. KASP membership helps provides liaison with various state departments, boards and commissions. You don't always notice such work, but examples include a meeting in 2006 involving several KASP board members at KSDE to discuss potential changes to licensure requirements which would impact all new school psychologists in the state!
  3. Your ongoing support also helps us rally quickly, get the word out and respond when other interests conflict with our profession, as is happening throughout 2007-08 with APA's Model Language Act proposing to remove the title of "school psychologist" from non-doctoral practitioners.
  4. KASP membership helps us sustain our state NASP delegates, who devote many dozens of hours each year, working diligently with others at the national level to address issues at the national level in promoting the profession of school psychology.
  5. Starting in 2008, your membership and KASP board efforts have helped assure that all trainings arranged via KASP (including convention) can qualify for CEE/CEUs as needed for state licensure. And now, CPDs (as needed for NCSP's to maintain their status) will be available for KASP activities as well! As you attend future KASP sessions, you'll be given instructions on how to complete documentation needed to serve these purposes.
  6. Your dues fund ongoing lobbyist activity, which represents you and your professional interests before the State Legislature. It can be hard to notice the benefit when things seem to hum along just fine, but grim things have been known to happen in states in which there is no organized, systematic way of reviewing and challenging legislative activity…. It was such board activity in 2008 which generated a House Bill within the Education Committee that proposed stipends for Kansas NCSP's (in the interest of parity with other board-certified educators who receive such stipends). The bill didn't come before a vote this year but it will be re-introduced before a future session. Systematic long-term efforts such as this strongly support KASP's mission.
  7. Finally, and probably most importantly, your membership generally helps sustain the strength of your profession in this state. This is crucial: As our mission statement says, "KASP exists to advocate for the psychological and educational well being of Kansas children, while serving the needs of the membership and promoting school psychology as a profession." To this end, your dues fund ongoing work which continually and in a tangible way has for decades helped shape the profession in Kansas. If KASP had never existed in our state, school psychology in Kansas would undoubtedly look very different than it does today. For examples of the long-term impact of having a good state association, look at the nature of school psychology in states where professional organization and support has been less pronounced: there are states where school psychologists are in 15,000 to 1 ratios with students (in Kansas, we're closer to 900 to 1 except in the most rural areas), and states where folks with undergraduate training (psychometrists or "psychological examiners") do the bulk of school psychological practice. Egads….
  8. Your past, ongoing support of KASP will pay particular dividends this year at the 2008 conference. You'll see from the brochure elsewhere on this site that we're pulling together a tremendous training opportunity for you October 16-18th. The two most prolific researchers and consultants on RTI the past 5 years, Matt Burns and Amanda VanderHeyden, will be at the new Geary County Convention Center, offering their acclaimed RTI workshops. Formerly unavailable outside of attendance at a NASP convention, your sustained membership in KASP has helped underwrite an amazing training opportunity.

Dues and Categories

 

Dues for regular membership are $40 a year, and are $10 for students/ interns and for retired school psychologists.

  1. Regular status: Means you are working as a school-based practitioner, or are a supervisor, administrator, trainer, or in independent practice.
  2. Retired status: Intended for school psychologists who, because of retirement, are no longer earning a full salary.
  3. Student/Intern status: To qualify, you must be enrolled in either a minimum of 6 hours leading to licensure as a school psychologist or related field or be a conditionally-licensed (or what KSDE used to call "provisionally-certified") school psychology intern. Maintaining this status requires annual verification: If using the mail-in form, you'll see a place for your supervisor to verify your status. If joining/renewing online, simply have your supervisor send an email stating that you meet student status, to keelypersinger@yahoo.com.
 
 
 

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