organizing therapy

Sometimes it just helps to get things organized.

I'm not talking about doing the Dewey Decimal system to my own personal library.  Or labeling all clothes and putting them in a progressive row of colors, age, or some other hyper-specific organization strategy.

I'm talking about messy locker organizing.  Not figuratively.  Literally.
Usually a disorganized low performing student has a really messy locker, and sometimes, all it takes is organizing the locker so the student can find his/her book.

I've done it in the past, set down with a chair next to a locker and kid and garbage can and went through finding my homework and packets, etc. from months previous.  I don't do it often, but today since I had to stay longer and I was afraid I'd be roped into an activity, I offered to help a student, suggesting she come during activity time.

She is my friend's kid, and she hugs me everyday and looks up to me - so I sat next to her and we emptied her locker together.  I should have taken a picture, it was an impressive collection.  In the end - among other things - we found her reading book, her missing glove, and her clarinet.