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kids are people too

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respect goes both ways

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you might be that kid's person. you might be the only person in their lives that has that positive impact on them. you get the honor of being that. where else do you get to do that?

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kids are kids are the people of today and they're the people of tomorrow and you get to directly positively shape and impact them

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you are investing in humanity and you are investing in our future

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you will instantly change your child's life the second that you walk into it.

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you need to teach kids because kids need you

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- Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Learning Disabilities: From Identification to Intervention
- When I am Little Again and The Child's Right to Respect by Janusz Korezak

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remember kids are people and they deserve respect and respect is earned.

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For every dollar you don't spend on evaluation you can spend on intervention. - Jack Fletcher

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Assessment is a helpful, but it's not everything. It's what you do with the interpretations of the assessment.

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your impact goes a long way

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respect your impact

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there is a human behind the score

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stepping away and looking at it from a different angle can help

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be consistent with assessments and just in general

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have a process that all team members are on board with.

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Cognitive assessment gives us a good idea of some of the underlying cognitive processes that that might be deficit for a kiddo.

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There are no valid assessments only valid interpretations. - Dylan William

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Assessment is a way to predict the success of the student or something else.

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Assessment is not the end all be all. It's just a piece of the pie/a piece of information.

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Assessment is a snapshot of a kid on that day in that particular state.

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Assessment is an estimation of the quality and nature of something.

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The Career that allows us to become part of their STORY! It is a gift!

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The best you can everyday, for every child!

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The courage to try!

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Create stellar moments...

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Create an Impact... It’s Up to YOU!

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Books:
- Despite the Best Intentions by David Sadzin
- The Morning Meeting Book 3rd Edition
- The Gift of Dyslexia by Ronald D. Davis

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Mastery Connect shows how students and teacher can grow and do better and what you need to go over again. You can do assessments with it.

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Options for seating in a classroom are important.

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Art project wall with art projects that go with different things they are learning.

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Reading corner to encourage reading.

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Variety of seating arrangements/flexible seating. They can change every month.

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Works are displayed as they are working on it. They don't have to be completely finished. People can see their progress all the time. Kind of like a gallery walk all the time.

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Where empathy is, change is resolute/can stick.

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It has the ability to give you more than you ever thought it could give even on the hard days.

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Teaching matters!

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“When they reflect back on teachers that they have had, I don’t necessarily have to be their favorite teacher, but I hope that when they reflect back, they think to themselves man my third grade year was stellar. Mrs. Steen told me I could do this. Mrs. Steen encouraged me to try this.”

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If you don’t continue to try reading in exposing yourself to new things, you’ll be stagnant and you won’t continue to improve.

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Having students do shout out to peers they think are doing a good job.

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You don’t have to love everybody on your staff, but you have to love some thing about everybody on your staff. There will be people that drive you crazy but you will notice something that you love about them that makes your building better because of them.

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You will gain respect from that parent, and from other parents who they tell.

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When something happens that you need to talk to them about, don’t just email them call them. An email can be read differently than you meant it. It is also read and perceived differently than your voice on the phone or having a face to face convo with them.

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It is hard to have hard to have hard conversations with parents, but they will respect you more for that and having that relationship also helps.

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If you make relationships with the students, the relationship with a parent will come because they see what you’re doing with their student.

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Find out what they love and support it. Soccer games, dance recitals, cheer competitions, the etc. The value that it gives that student knowing that you care about what they are doing outside of school is huge. The parents also realize that you will take the time to go to support what is important to their child shows them how important their child is to you.

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No matter how time-consuming you think it is always take the time to create those relationships. You need to show them that they are worthy of your time and that you want to know more about them.

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You need to make relationships with the students with the parents and with the staff. The students in your class are your family and you need to take the time to understand everything about them.

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Don’t just think that you’re assessments are pen and paper or the standardized tests, sometimes you’re assessing what that kid needs emotionally, socially, and educationally to be an academic learner.

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Listen to the parents.

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use the students in your classroom, especially if they have the skill down that you’re teaching. The leaders.

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To be successful, you need to be a team. Divide and conquer in regards to strengths. Give compliments of what you notice about their strengths. So they feel the confidence to keep doing it.

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You need to have small groups every single day with every single kid.

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You notice more things in small groups, like the signals on their face when they don’t understand, and their body language, when they are frustrated, but they’ll take more risk when they’re in a small group with you.

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You learn more things about your kids because they tell you more things in small groups.

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How can we challenge the higher readers? - vocabulary.

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Small groups also help you assess what they can do and what they need to do them on and move them on.

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Small groups with all kinds of learners also help make sure that the ones that are higher level are still being enriched and the lower level ones are getting the help and support they need.

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Even though they are good students and they may not need as much support, they still need one on one or small group attention from you. It helps build that connection with them rather than assuming they can do the work.

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Small groups are opportunity. Where are you get the opportunity for every level of student to get your time.

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Assessment is more of the day today of what you’re noticing.

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The biggest thing with assessment is making observations. What they’re mastering and what they’re struggling with and your role as an educator, and how you can support them.

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"Find your compass"

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Books:
- The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle
- Deeper Learning

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“To get to look an adult in the face and know that you were a part of their journey is amazing.”

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There’s a little piece that you get to give them along the way that will help them become the person that they are meant to be. As a teacher, you get to touch so many lives.

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Having people in their life that are consistent and caring and love them is what they need the most of right now. Even though life is crazy, we’ve still got this.

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Students understanding goes beyond that one standard, it can go to deeper.

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There is a goal set far away, and you set up structures on how to get there in. The small foot prints that get from point a to point B are not clearly defined. It’s really important to look at. What is that next step and what is that small thing that you can put out there to make the biggest impact.

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The culture of your school, your classroom and your PLC is crucial for your growth. Constantly keep your thumb on where you are as a class and group culture bc it’s a fluid thing. As soon as you think you have it, and you’re not working on it anymore, it’s a problem. You constantly have to keep your monitor up and keep checking in on everyone everyday and making sure they’re doing well.

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Nothing should be a script. Everything should be as transparent as possible.

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There’s a secret combination to every student and your job as a teacher is to figure that combination out. It starts with building that relationship. Everything in their life is a part of the combination, and in order to figure out how they are going to focus and get work done, you need to know that combination.

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If you have that one problem with that one kid, think about what one thing is gonna help them the most. Most likely it is sitting with them and talking with them and really seeing and knowing them and what makes them tick.

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Do you know and understand your students? You can do all the work and match everything to the curriculum, but it’s not gonna matter any if the parents don’t feel like you understand, and know their child. Build relationships with your kids.

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Think of it as a compass rather than a map. Everyone is headed in the same direction.

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It doesn’t matter how you get there you could go through New Mexico or California as long as you’re going in the same direction and aiming for the same goal.

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Don’t feel like you have to do it all at once.

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If you’re looking at the big picture all the time you are going to want to give up.

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What’s the smallest thing that I can do that makes the most impact on student learning and efficiency.

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Take a little piece that makes sense to you and ace that piece and do the best you can with it and then take a little bit more and do the best that you can and a little bit more, etc.

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If they get a b they can tell their parents that they got the b bc of this, but they are continuing to learn more about it and continuing that learning.

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keep assessments open ended. Let them show you in a project, paper, etc. And then students can make a scheduled time to tell you about it. If they want to show it to you early then let them. Have them go even further with it and teach the class what you learned. If they aren't successful that week it's okay because it isn't over bc everyone learns at different paces.

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Don't keep the expectations from your kids, they should know what you expect from them.

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When you give it a grade or finalize it, the learning stops, so keeping always learning as an expectation and giving them those opportunities to keep learning is important.

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no assessment is final, it is ongoing.

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Leave it open ended and have students show you how they know it in their own way.

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Give the students opportunities to show you in different ways in your assessments. Don't just bottle it into different areas in your assessments.

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Making it sure that we have students applying the things they are learning during the learning process.

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Assessment is about seeing if students can apply the knowledge? Doesn't necessarily matter how they choose to show it?

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Where you start is not necessarily where you'll end.