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2020 National Teacher of the year!!

Personal Definition of Assessment:
- gives an accurate picture where students are academically and even social-emotion scale.

Go To Assessments:
- dial 4 assessment
- APES

As an educator, how do you work smarter not harder:
- concentrate on the day not the big picture
- have routines within routines
- make your classroom a place where students can work independently

Advice:
- lean on community support
- take the help
- do not do it all on your own
- make connections

Book: easy to love, hard to disciple

Why Teach?
- no other job that os fun of joy and purpose like teaching
- everyday you get to make a difference

All the teachers highlighted at the end have everything very organized and everything is functional.

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"Beast Mode Instructor"

Personal Assessment Definition:
- Assessment is simply a procedure for making inferences.
- There is no valid assessment, just valid inferences based on the assessment.

Go To Assessments:
- Whiteboards
- Reteach/Scaffolding

How do you work Smarter not Harder
- Design assessments well so you can get inferences quickly
- Understand what inferences you want to make while making the assessment

Teaching Advice:
- Teach to the test
- give opportunities for flexible thinking

Books: Teacher Clarity Playbook and IS Practice Guides

Why Teach?
- you won't know until you meet your kids

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Personal Definition of Assessment:
getting to know what the students know and deciding how to use it.
"what did I do today that they are taking away"

Go To Assessments:
- exit slips

How do you work smarter not harder:
- make the students do everything
- the more the students do the less you have to do
- sticky notes and dry erase boards are your friend

Advice:
- relationships are very important
- go out of your way to make student connections
- you can never do too much procedures
- safety and systems
- have clear expectations

Must Read Book:
"stuff you should know"

Why Teach?
- the smiles
- you get to open new minds

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Personal Definition of Assessment:
- where are we going, where do we need to go, where did we end up.
- its all about seeing what they are learning
- continue to move your students

Go to Assessments:
- show me what you know
- use standard tool
- small group assessment

How do you work smarter not harder:
- collaborate

Advice:
- don't walk alone

Must Read:
- twitter
- behavior books

Why teach?:
- the stories you go home with
- make lifelong connections
- you don't get to make the same impact in any other profession

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Personal Definition of Assessment:
- assessment is the world

Go to Assessments:
- informal daily observations
- anecdotal notes
- FMP

How do you work smarter not harder:
-look at how to do things more efficiently

Advice:
- be careful with who you surround yourself with
- don't listen to the negative things .. it will burn you out
- find your true north

Must Read book:
- give yourself time to reflect
- shut out the chatter and remember why you're here
- behavior snap

Why teach?:
- you meet so many kids that you will remember for your whole life and they will remember you
- you get to be the one that helps them excel and achieve their goals.

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Personal Definition of Assessment:
- any time of your life when you have a goal or objective that you want to achieve that you have to look back and see how and why you accomplished it.

Go to Assessments:
- educator rubric
- keep the end in mind

How do you work smarter not harder:
- create a rubric
- you do not have to have lots of homework to be able to see where students are at with a concept
- not everything has to be graded
- rituals and routines

Advice:
- have procedures and routines

Must Read book:
-learning by doing
- excellence in every classroom

Why teach?:
- teach for the kids

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Personal Definition of Assessment:
- assessment os necessary
- a tool to determine what students know and what they are ready to learn next

Go to Assessments:
- hands on anything
- show me what you know

How do you work smarter not harder:
- let students have a tool kit
- rituals ans routines
- have a good work life balance

Advice:
- be extra nice to the secretary and the custodian
- don't be afraid to try something
- stay off your phone
- don't take everything so seriously
- laugh with your kids
- leave your home problems at the door
- greet your kids "its my best day when you are here"

Must Read book:
- out of my mind

Why teach?:
- you get to make an impact every day

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Personal Definition of Assessment:
- can students apply knowledge
- can they show me they understand

Go to Assessments:
- Start with the standard and find what they actually need
- if students know the content on Monday they would be able to show what they know on Friday
- if students are not successful continue the topic
- standard anything

How do you work smarter not harder:
- take a little piece that makes the most sense and ace it and slowly add to it
- think about what is going to make the biggest student impact
- layer your teaching
- it doesn't all have to be done at once
- look at teaching as a compus not a map

Advice:
- do you know and care about their kid?
- build relationships

Must Read book:
-  culture code

Why teach?:
- this is the time we need it most
- hold on a little tighter and love a little bit more
- you have the ability to impact students for a lifetime
- you get to give them the little pieces to help them become great

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Personal Definition of Assessment:
- assessment is an estimation
- snapshot of a kid on that day in a particular state

Go to Assessments:
- MTSS assessment
- exit tickets
- quizzes
- WJ

How do you work smarter not harder:
- stay in our own lane, but be in a team
- have a framework for how you will utilize assessment
- be consistent and efficient

Advice:
- respect your impact
- remember assessment has its place, but it all leads back to intervention

Must Read book:
- thinking fast and slow
- learning disabilities from identification intervention
- child's right to respect

Why teach?:
- because kids need you
- you will instantly change a Childs life
- you are investing into the future
- you might be their only positive person

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Personal Definition of Assessment:
- make observations
- not paper pencil, but the day to day observations

Go to Assessments:
- small groups
- challenge them to improve their vocabulary

How do you work smarter not harder:
- be a team
- lean on your classroom leaders

Advice:
- make relationships with students, parents, and staff
- support what your kids love
- support your kids outside of school
- be willing to have hard conversations with parents face to face or by phone NOT email

Must Read book:
- gift of dyslexia
- the morning meeting book
- despite the best intentions

Why teach?:
- impact
- you play a little role in people accomplishing their dreams