"The kids were so excited for me to be there," said Beth, noting that there was 100% participation from everyone. "They loved shouting out answers on how Drake could be more organized and also told me stories about how they are organized."

The students' favorite part was the hands-on organizing exercise, where they get to learn the first step of the organizing process, To Sort.  Beth suggests to get the teacher to pick out students to help pass out materials, which moves the exercises along much faster (time is limited!), and the teacher knows which students are best for the job.

"Everyone was super excited when they dumped out the contents of their bags and started sorting," exclaimed Beth. "All the kids had a different way to sort and they all wanted to tell me about it.  Even during evaluation time, the kids would call me over and tell me their organizing secrets."  She commented that one student asked her if he needed more compartments for his book bag!

For Beth Zeigler, the whole experience was awesome and she looks forward to making many more presentations with NAPO in the Schools.

Training is required of all NAPO members wanting to become NAPO in the Schools Trained Providers and is available to you as a benefit of your NAPO membership.  Training calls are now going to be offered as a pre-recorded call by the end of July.  Look for the new schedule to sign up on the NAPO in the Schools web pages, located in the "members only" section of the NAPO website.

Please contact Deborah Kawashima for any questions: Deborah@creativeOrganizer.com  or 323-656-9665

NAPO in the Schools is a community outreach program bringing professional organizers into the classroom to do an interactive presentation that plants a seed in the student's mind that being organized is important and really does make a difference.

Join some of your Los Angeles colleagues and others from around the country for NSGCD's Annual Conference. The conference will be held in St. Louis from Thursday evening, September 25 through Saturday, September 27. 

This year promises to be a fabulous learning opportunity with featured speakers Dr. Gail Steketee, Sari Solden and Nancy Ratey. The format of the conference includes seven workshops. Dr. Steketee, co-author of Buried in Treasures, will present three sessions about Compulsive Hoarding and Chronic Disorganization. Sari Solden and Nancy Ratey, both nationally renowned experts on AD/HD, will each give a workshop and all three of the speakers will be on a panel moderated by Denslow Brown.  Please visit www.nsgcd.org to see a full schedule and registration details.  

Last year's conference was truly remarkable as some of the most prominent leaders in the ADD and Hoarding fields spent two days presenting their research and knowledge and relating it to our work as organizers. All indications are that this year will be as good.

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