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was a school psychologist
assessment: estimation of ability, snapshot of a kid,  piece of information!
MTSS
-look at all students as gen ed students first
-Wisc
Smarter not harder: have a process, all team members on the same page, need to work as a team!, have a framework for everything
ADVICE: respect your impact, first year teachers( students are still going to look up to you), your impact is huge, kids are going to want relationships, intervention is so important(knowing what you are going to do next with the data)
-Invention side is more important than the assessment.
Thinking Fast and Slow: BOOK (choice making, thinking patterns, slow down of your head)
Jake Fletcher(neuropsychologist): Learning Disabilities from to Intervention
-Child's Right to Respect: BOOK (child's right to 3 things) "children are not the people of tomorrow but the people of today and they deserve to be respected"
WHY TEACH: kids need you, instant impact, you will change a kids life for forever, you shape the future

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Assessment:Can students apply the knowledge? can they show me they understand what i am trying to teach
-they need to apply the knowledge throughout the learning process, dont bottle your assessments into one area
- They can show you in their own way what they know, having conversations, projects, building websites, give them options
-One size does not fit all for assessments
-Assessment is a process
-Go to Assessments:
-starts with the planning of your lessons (start with standards), break apart standard, break into like 5 essential thoughts, look at your considerations,
-Continue information throughout the weeks based on the formative assessments.
-students keep progress of their own learnings in the standards
-Build relationships

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Assessment: tool what students know and what they are ready to learn next
go to assessments: hands on things, look at standard and find what they can do that is hands on (cubes)
-have a toolkit!!
- Spend the first month teaching routines!! (draw out charts.. ect)
-Smarter not Harder: Work life balance!!! set boundaries. Plan every tuesday for following work. Always prep for the next day. Work ahead. Work with your team! Lean on your teammates. Split the workload.
-Greatest Advice: be extra nice to secretary and castonin, Listen to your team and co-workers, take a risk!! Don't reinvent the wheel everyday!, stay off your phone!, Don't take yourself too seriously, leave home problems at the door,
-Power of words
Resources: book: Out of my mind: sharron draper
Represent all you students in what you read. (black history, every culture, diversity)
Read aloud everyday! (practice before)
Why teach: Impacting the future

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assessment: make observations everyday, not paper pencil, notice and wonder
Go to assessments: Have small groups, opportunity for students to get your time, small groups create connections
-Make sure every single groups gets time with teacher
-Challenge the "bright" kids
-work harder not smarter: BE A TEAM, divide and conquer. find strengths in your team and each person takes a part, give everyone a role, give teammates confidence,
-Use student leaders in your classroom!!!
Greatest advice:
-Make relationships (with students, parents, staff)
- Take time in begining to build relationships. This will help throughout the rest of the school year. no behaviors
-find what students love, support it!!!
-Have hard convos with parents, Phone CALLS!
-Make relationships with your staff
The Gift of Dyslexia
The Morning Meeting Book: roxanne creek (written for educators, gives you things you can do in the classroom)(activities, questions) ( do it every single day!)
-Despite the Best Intentions:Book (best procedures for ADD, learning disabilities, autism..)
-Keep improving daily
Teaching makes you feel fulfilled!

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Assessment: anytime of your life. you have a goal and have to assess if you are going to complete the goal.
Go to
-educator rubric (help stay more objective)
-Need rubrics to match the assessment
-Make your own rubrics
-Keep the end in mind
-Smarter not harder: rubrics help (no guessing games), dont have to have massive amounts of work ( use formative assessments to see where students are at)
-thumbs up thumbs down
-exit slips
-white boards
(take no time to grade at home! Formative assessments)
-Build good relationships with kids
-Let kids see rubrics in advanced so they know the expectations, they can self assess
-Greatest Advice: have procedures and routines from day 1. do not wing it. Entering the classroom, beginning of the day, quitting strategy, ROUTINES NEED TO BE TAUGHT AND PRACTICED
Learning By Doing- BOOK
Excellence in Every Classroom-Book ( kind of like maslow's hierarchy)
Cult Pedagogy- podcast
Think Again- Adam Grant
Podcast- Adam Grant (becoming a leader)

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Assessment: informal and standardized assessments. Observing students. Social skill checklists
-Anecdotal notes
-Data to make decisions and show parents
-Go to assessments:
-reading: running records, fmps(benchmark assessment, depend what level they're on) ( listening to students read to see where they are struggling)
Work smarter not harder: Strategically plan, using resources around you, asking teachers around you, using others
-ADVICE: be careful who you surround yourself with. Stay with the positive people. You will hear a lot of negative but there are a lot of great things happening in education. There is so much fun to have has a teacher so dont listen to the negative.
Resources/books/ect: Filter out the stuff, the opinions, always remember why you are doing it. Shut out the chatter.
SPED is a lot of small groups, get to know students and their families
Why should we teach: You will always remember your students. You will believe in these kids no matter what and it will make a difference on your students.
-"get in the game"

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K-Stater
-Assessment is all the time throughout the day. seeing where students are at and seeing where we need to go.
-White boards: show me what you know
-Want students to grow throughout the year
-Not all about the content. Need to know how students are feeling that day
Go to Assessments:
-standard tool
-Learning Map: group kids and figure out where they are
-Small groups: See students working and observe. Can move kids where they need to go. Very fluid
-Collaborate!!
-Use your team
-Work better together
-Small groups have shaped her entire classroom
-Never can do small group enough, students are going to show you what they know. Students will be able to ask questions not in front of the whole class
Advice: Dont walk alone. Always use your team to support you. Go into other peoples classrooms. Learn so much through other people.
Twitter to see into other peoples classrooms
considently looking for new things, pintrest ect
-"How do you hug a porcupine"
Why to teach: The impact on people. Do it for the kids. Changing kids lives.
Have a goal board, Students can help come up with the goal. Students have their own calendar on their desks to track their individually goals.
-Make students goal oriented.
-Anchor charts are very engaging and a great way for students to learn.
-Class jobs
-Plus/ Deltas. (things theyre good at, things to work on)
- Flexible seating
-After they learn something, they come up with their own on a sticky note. (learning fractions, have to come up with their own problem, exit ticket)
-Empower students.

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Third Grade Teacher
-Assessment: getting to know what the kids know and how i am going to use this information. Show what you know.
Go to assessments:
-exit tickets for everything. Can be quick and short.
-Make your students do everything. Have them work together to assess each other. "tell me what your partner said or knows"
-Dry erase boards and markers
- Make sure to connect with your students. Doesnt have to be anything big just something to connect you guys. Makes your students feel so loved and things go smoother in the classroom.
-Talking about procedure and rules from the very beginning. Go slow to go fast.
-Stuff you should know podcast
Culturecode
-Why teach: Making students love school and wanting to be there.

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-Teaching for 12 years
-assessment gives her a picture of where her students are. This doesnt just have to be academic but also social and emotionally. Self Regulation.
-MyIgdis: compares to any preschooler. Gives her ways that she can cater to her students.
-Dial4
-Aeps: family perspective
Routines within routines. Changing environment, so students can function independently.
-You need to be intentional with what you share with families
-Greatest advice: Lean on the support in your community. Your team in your school, administration, take advice and help, create relationships, CONNECTIONS
-Theconsiouskid on IG
- Do work on yourself for your bias's and diversity
Why teach: No job that you get the joy, fulfillment and make a difference in kids lives. Having purpose.

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-Assessment: a procedure for making inferences
-Invalid and valid interpretations.
-Engagement and pace of responses is very important.
- scaffolding
-Understanding what kind of inference your trying to make. Plan your assessments strategically
-Need to know what the purpose of the assessment is
-Greatest advice: Teach to the test. Start with assessment and know what students are going to need to know. Instruction needs to have room for flexible thinking.
-End in mind. Know where we are going.