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Special Services Coordinator
15 years teaching

Personal definition of assessment
- Assessment is an estimation of the equality of something. A snapshot of where a student is at the current moment. No valid assessments only valid interpretations

Go to Assessments
- MTSS
- Good diagnostics
- Exit tickets
- Quizzes

Work smarter not harder
- Have to have a process
- All team members on the same page
- Work efficiently

ADVICE
- Respect you impact!

Books/ Podcasts
- Thinking Fast and Slow
- Jack Fletcher

Why Teach?
- Kids need you!
- Instant impact to shape our future!

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3rd Grade Teacher
22 years of teaching

Personal definition of assessment
- Teacher need to make observations
- More of what you are seeing in the day to day

Go to assessments
- Small groups
- Make sure all students are enriched

Work smarter not harder
- Be a team!
- Use the leaders in your classroom
- Use the students!

ADVICE
- Make relationships with everyone!
- Show students they are worth your time
- Show students you care about what they do outside of school!
- Have the hard conversations with parents

Books/ Podcasts
- Gift of Dyslexia
- The Morning Meeting Book
- Despite the Best Intentions

Why Teach?
-  You will find joy that you never even knew you could have in your job.
- Impact on each and every student in your classroom
- It matters

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23rd year teaching
5th grade teacher
8th/9th grade science
assistant principle

Personal definition of assessment
- Can students show what is being taught. Doesn't matter how it is being shown as long as the student can show their knowledge.

Go to assessments
- Start with the standards
- Make sure the students apply the knowledge during the learning

Work smarter not harder
- Don't bite everything off at once take it slow until you reach your end goal.

ADVICE
- Be part of the culture in the building
- Not an easy job to do alone
- Think as a compass not a map

Books/ Podcasts
- Culture Code
- Deeper Learning

Why Teach?
- Even though life is crazy we've got this!
- Help students become successful because of the little piece you gave them along their journey

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Kindergarten Teacher
Teaching 27 years

Personal definition of assessment
- Assessment is necessary
- Tool to determine what students know and what they are ready to learn

Go to assessments
- Hands on
- Quick and easy

Work smarter not harder
- Set boundaries why also doing your job
- Plan early! Work Ahead!
- Lean on teammates

ADVICE
- Be extra nice to secretary and custodian!
- Listen to team and co-workers
- Take a risk!!
- Stay off the phone!!
- Don't take yourself too seriously! Your going to mess up!!
- Leave your home problems at the door!

Books/ Podcasts
- Out of my Mind
- Represent all your students in what you read!

Why Teach?
- Teaching is not for everyone but it is a job where you can really make an impact.
- Teaching isn't for everyone but everyone needs a great teacher!

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Coaching Coordinator
Taught 7 years
Has been coordinator since

Personal definition of assessment
- Anytime in your life when you have a goal and you have to look and see if you have met that goal. SMART goals

Go to assessments
- Educator Rubric
- Rubrics keep it objective

Work smarter not harder
- Rubric helps to work smarter not harder
- We don't have to have massive amount of graded work instead use formative assessment to help adjust instruction

ADVICE
- Have procedures and routines from day 1
- Stick to routines!!

Books/ Podcasts
- Learning by Doing
- Excellence in Every Classroom
- Leadership books
- Think Again
- Leadership Podcasts

Why Teach?
- Teach for kids
- Kids have a connection with adults
- Kids are able to develop into independent and brave students

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14 years of teaching
Elementary Resource

Personal definition of assessment
Assessments that are very informal all the way up to standardized tests. Depends on what is being looked at.

Go to assessments
- Running records
-FMP benchmark assessment

Work smarter not harder
- Know the curriculum
- Using resources around you

ADVICE
- Be careful with who you surround yourself with

Books/Podcasts
- Filtering out the stuff (shutting out the chatter)
- Reflect on the why
- Twitter

Why Teach?
- Seeing the kids be successful
- Knowing the kids need someone who loves them and will care for them

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Teaching for 21 years

Personal Definition of Assessment-
Many times just observing using whiteboards because assessment in elementary is constant to determine where the students are at. Goal of making sure every student grows during the year. It's not all about the content.

Go to assessments
-Learning continuum
-Small groups

Work smarter not harder
- Collaborate
Can learn so much from everyone around you if you work together!

ADVICE
-Don't walk alone! Have a support system

Books/Podcasts
- Use social media to see into others classrooms!
- Constantly look for new things but keep your core books
- How do you hug a porcupine

Why Teach?
- Can't image another job where you go home with the stories that you do. Make such a huge impact that you would never get in another job.

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Teaching for 6 years
3rd grade teacher

What is personal definition of assessment?
Assessment is getting to know what the kids know and how to use that information. Show what you know.

Go to Assessment
-Exit tickets

How to work smarter not harder
- Make them do it. Make the kids do everything!

ADVICE
-Relationships (nicknames, greeting at door, get to know families, sit with students)
-Can never do to much procedure in first month
-Clarity

Books/ Podcasts
-Stuff you should know podcast

Why Teach?
The smiles. Giving the students something else to think about and open their mind. Seeing the kid excited about school who didn't enjoy school at the beginning.

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Teaching for 10 years
Math Coordinator

Personal Definition of Assessment-
Assessment is simply a procedure for making inferences. No valid assessment only valid or invalid interpretations.

Go to assessments-
- Whiteboards
- Pause and have conversations
- Scaffolding

How to work Smarter not Harder-
Understanding what inference trying to make impression on. Can be more efficient
At risk Vs. Proficient

Learning relationally

ADVICE
Teach to the test. Make sure students have seen everything that will be on the test so you can get a real feel where the student is at with their proficiency. End in mind.

Books/Podcasts
The Teacher Clarity Playbook
Practice Guides
John Pegg
How Learning Happens

Why Teach?
You won't know until you meet your kids. You won't ask again after you meet the kids.

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2020 Teacher of the Year!

Personal definition of assessment-
A very loaded word that can make teachers sweat. For Tabatha assessment gives and accurate picture of where students are not only academically but also in the social emotional aspect.
Go to assessments
- Dial 4
- APES (Family perspective)

Think of the day as LINEAR
Think about how you set up your classroom environment before the students even step foot in the room!

ADVICE
Lean on the support in the community!!
Take the advice you don't have to do it all by yourself!
Do work on yourself!

Books
Easy to Love Difficult to Discipline
Books to address own biasses
How to Build and Equatable Classroom

Why Teach?
So many more jobs with more money but no job that will give you the joy, purpose, and fulfillment that teaching does. Teaching gives you a purpose to get up and give back to your community each and everyday.