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-Make connections with teachers in building

-Accept help teachers are there to help and want to help

-Recommends book "Easy To Loved Difficult To Discipline" by Dr. Becky Bailey

-Recommends "How To Build An Equitable Classroom"

-Keep different shapes of paper on cabinets and write down what kids are learning (different shapes each month)

-Have lesson plans laminated and attached to the wall

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Guest Mentor #1 Tabatha Rosproy Early Childhood

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-Go to assessments: white boards and scaffolding

-Each assessment can measure a different thing. We don't always have to measure the same thing.

-Put eyes on the prize of the assessment

-Biggest piece of advice is to teach to the test (PREPARE YOUR STUDENTS)

-Recommends "Teacher Playbook"

-Give students clarity on the purpose of every assignment

-"IS Practice Guides"

-Why teach? he replies "You won't know until you meet your kids and then you will know"

-Teachers have the opportunity to pour into kids every single day

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KSU Guest Mentor Spencer Brown Assessment

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-The shorter the better

-Let the kids do it

-White boards

-Short answers

-Give nicknames

-Don't have to run a tight ship but just have to bring clarification

-The more you can connect with a student the better

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Guest Mentor KSU Assessment Natasha Roseberry Part 1

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-It's not only about the content, KNOW THE STUDENT

-Assessments: Learning continuum within math & small groups!!!

-How to work smarter not harder: COLLABORATE!!

-SHOW ME METHOD

-Don't walk alone, take everyone with you

-Let decorations make students proud in who they are

-Have a portion of the wall be "student voice"

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-Listening to a student read helps with assessing how a student reads

-Be efficient with assessing students so that you are not having to take it home

-Surround yourself with the good. "Find your true north"

-Resources: Have time to yourself to reflect. Great books out there! Try to not be on social media that much. Take care of yourself mentally. *Behavior snap* Great data tracker

-FAVORITE GUEST MENTOR, I WANNA BE A SPED TEACHER

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KSU Guest Mentor Series Brandi England (SPED)

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-Personal Assessment Definition: Any time you have a goal or objective you want to meet and you have to assess if you have met that goal

-Go to assessment: educational rubric

-How to work smarter not harder: use rubrics it helps stay in line and exit slips

-Have rituals and routines from day one

-Resource: Learning by doing book, Excellence In Every Classroom book, Cult of Pedagogy, podcast by Simon Sinek/Brene Brown

-Ability to always learn

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-Assessment definition: What to use to be able to understand where her students are at

-Looks at standard and make lesson HANDS ON (she's a kindergarten teacher)

-Tool kit in their desk

-Believes in rituals & routines

-Laid the ground rules in the first month

-If students are making repeated mistakes she apologizes and says "Boys and girls I am sorry that I did not teach you the expectation. Let me show you."

-Work ahead for two days before

-Have a good work-life balance

-Find your strengths & weaknesses

-Be extra nice to the secretary and janitor, BE FRIENDS

-Listen to your team and coworkers

-Take a risk

-Don't reinvent the wheel every day

-Stay off your phone! The phone is the downfall of the new teacher.

-Don't take yourself too seriously

-Laugh with your kids

-Leave your home problems at the door

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-Assessment definition: Can students apply the knowledge? Can they show me that they understand what I am trying to teach?

-It is a process

-Give many opportunities to keep growing

-Go to assessments: have students tell you about it, write about it, but always come back to the standard

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-Personal definition: Make observations as teachers.

-Go to assessments: Small groups, reading groups

-To be successful, you need to be a team

-Don't be afraid of weaknesses, it may be your coworkers strength

-Tell your coworkers their strength, build up your team

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-Students are going to look to you to form a relationship

-Your impact is HUGE as a teacher

-Assessment has it's place but all roads are ultimately going to lead back to intervention

-Intervention has a long road of where you can get a kid

-Nouns are nice but verbs are better, it's all about the action

-Books: Thinking Fast and Slow, Jack Fletcher

-Intervention is higher than assessment