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15th year in education
Worked with all ages.
Assessment - It is an estimation, a snapshot of a student, a piece of information, not the end all be all, it is a process.
Go to assessments - MTSS assessments, screening, monitoring, exit tickets, quizzes, each day, cognitive assessments
Partnering with other faculty like speech therapists, OT, etc.
Working smarter, not harder - have to have a process, efficiently working, teamwork
Must-read book: Thinking Fast and Slow, choice making, and thinking patterns. Jack Fletcher author. Janush Korchak is another author he suggests.
Kids are people and they deserve respect.
Making an impact on students will last forever, you may be the only one that is supportive in their lives.

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Taught for over 20 years.
3rd-grade teacher
Graduated from K-State
Assessment: Biggest thing teachers can do is make observations. What they are mastering and what they are still struggling with and how you can help them with this.
Go to assessments: small groups are such an opportunity to meet with students one on one and make connections with students and meet their needs. You will learn more about your students this way.
Small groups are every day with every single kid.
Working smarter, not harder: Be a team!
- Divide and conquer
- Use different strengths of others to help one another
Being able to see what students need when you can meet with small groups. This helped her when she realized her students needed more help with reading and processing. She wouldn't have been able to do this without seeing them in their small groups.
Teaching will bring us joy each day as we give it our all and follow our calling.
Why teach? The impact that you have on others is the main thing. Our students can reflect back on our year of teaching and that we should have a lasting impact on them and help them achieve great things. Teaching matters and it makes a difference.
Teachers who are driven and love kids.

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23rd year of teaching
Started out as a 5th grade teacher.
Taught both 8th and 9th grade science.
Assistant Principal at middle school level.
Has learned a lot about all the levels of school and worked with a variety of people.
Where you start is probably not where you will end.
Assessment: Can students apply knowledge? Can students show me what they are learning and what the standard is? A lot of it is seeing if students can transfer their knowledge to different areas and spaces as well. Leaving it open for different opportunities.
Working smarter, not harder:
Helping his staff move in the right direction and work as a team.
There are going to be roadblocks in everyone's journey and we might all get there differently, but we all have the same place and goal in common.
New teacher advice: Knowing and caring about the students come first before anything else.
Can you understand your kids well?
We need to build relationships with all students, even our toughest ones.
Relationships are the foundation for everything else as a teacher.
Being able to make an impact on people is the best thing that comes out of being a teacher.

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Kindergarten teacher, been a kindergarten teacher for 27 years.
1 year of 4th grade and did some work in Preschool.
Olathe School District - 14th year there.
Assessment is necessary. It is a tool that she can use to determine what her students know and what they need to learn next and what they are reading to know.
Go-to assessments: Hands-on that is fast and easy. See what the standard is and see what can be hands-on. Observation as well as she walks around the room and asks students to show and tell.
Believes in routines and laid out groundwork at the beginning.
Showing what you know.
They spend the first month even practicing the routines of the classroom.
There is power in words and showing students it is okay to make mistakes.
Working smart, not harder - as a first-year teacher she worked harder a lot. There was not a good work balance. Setting boundaries for herself now. When she leaves work at night everything is done for the next day, and she preps things in the morning for the next day.
Your students need to see you and see that you are there for them.
Resources - Out of My Mind book
Teaching is not for everyone but everyone needs a great teacher.

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Instructional coaching started teaching in 1992.
Work with 21 other instructional coaches.
Big 3
- PLC's
- Standards
- Active Engagement
Assessment, having a goal or object and having to assess whether you have met that goal. Formative or Summative.
SMART goals believer.
Works off of an educator rubric.
Making sure the rubric matches your expectations.
Keeping the end in mind.
Working smarter and not harder: The rubric helps you because there are no guessing games. Don't have to have massive amounts of assignments but use assessment to see where students are at. Don't need to grade every single piece of work.
Must read: Learning By Doing book
Teaching for kids cares deeply about kids and the connections they have with adults. Has the desire to help develop them.

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14 years teaching
K-12 certified. Many degrees and schooling.
As a special ed teacher, she has assessments that are very informal but also standardized tests and also everything in the middle. It depends on what subject it is and who the student is.
Anecdotal versus data-driven. There are some that make it easier and definitely using both in her area.
Go to: FMPS - benchmark assessment
Working smarter not harder: Only resource teacher in the building. Knowing the curriculum helps her strategic working, not always writing lesson plans but using resources around her.
She sees the potential in students even with their special education and wants to help students grow and learn. She uses the data to look at where students are sees where they can be and truly desires for them to take steps while she has them in class.
Be very careful who you surround yourself with and that it should be positive people and not negative that can tear you down. Remember your why and why you have the passion and why you wanted to become a teacher.
Filtering out the stuff. Read a lot of books but think it is about a time of reflection and shutting out the chatter and remembering the why of why she is here. Continuing to improve each day!

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21st year of teaching
K-State graduate
Assessment: Kids are assessed all the time in elementary school. Constantly observing and knowing where your students are at.
Goal of wanting to help every kid grow in her classroom that year.
Go-to assessments:
- Standard tools
- Learning continuum with a map
-  Small groups (seeing them in front of her and working right here, fluid)
Born to be and want to be a teacher
Has built the passion for it over the years.
Valuing education and helping kids grow and learn.
Has great decoration and posted things around her room. Helps students stay involved and engaged.

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6 years teaching
Assessment: getting to know the kids and know how I'm going to use that information in any way possible and getting to know how they understand the information I am teaching."
Use of exit tickets a lot
The quick assessment is the best assessment
Working smarter, not harder, having students do everything.
Using see what you know or checking in with students can be so much more beneficial for your students and yourself as a teacher.
Giving nicknames in her classroom gives connections between her and her students that can personally reach them.
She is very involved and moving throughout her classroom, not always just sitting at her desk and doing work but sitting with her students and checking in.
Using outside school activities in an appropriate way to connect with students in a way that they feel appreciated and heard.
There can never be to much procedure.
When the kids know what you expect of them it helps them in the long run. They know what the class is supposed to look like and how to interact each day.
Preparing students for their future and success.

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Teaching for 10 years.
Math coordinator for Olathe schools.
"Assessment is the procedure for making inferences and observing what you asked the student to do"
"There is no valid assessment only valid interpretations"
He has lots of background working with different schools and students.
Re-teach and scaffolding
Working smarter, not harder, makes sure he gets the information in an efficient way to understand the difference between assessments and what is proficient.
Importance of if your kids are cognitively engaged.
"a good teacher is a good coach"
We should be able to guide our students through things and not just be there to call the balls and strikes.

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Teaching for 12 years.
Coaching position in supporting other teachers.
National Teacher of the Year
Assessment Definition: accurate picture of where students are.
Go to assessments: different assessment tools, quick and easy ways to know how to tailor instruction. Dial four assessments for preschoolers. Involving families in assessments for perspective.

Working smarter not harder: Thinking about day in a linear way. Expecting of students and expecting of self. Routines within routines. Setting up environment in a good way.

Becoming a teacher because we want to make a difference and giving back to your community.

In this video the preschool has a lot of information hanging around their room that is helpful when thinking about assessments. This also looked beneficial because of how many teachers were there in the class, so they can all be on the same page.