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2020 National Teacher of the Year
Personal definition of assessment:
- she says it can be a loaded, accurate picture of where students are academically and even social and emotionally

Go to assessment:
- My Igles
- Dial 4
- AEPS

How to work smarter not harder:
- think of your day in a linear way, routines within routines, think what you expect out of everyone

Advice:
Lean on the support in your community, take the help

Book:
Easy to love, Difficult to listen
How to build an equitable classroom

Why teach:
For the joy and fitfulness of the job, purposeful, giving back to your community

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Personal definition of assessment:
- getting to know what the kids know and how you will use that information

Go to assessment:
- Exit Tickets

How to work smarter not harder:
- Make them do it- use your students to help with things and work together

Advice:
Relationships with students- nicknames, greet at the door, ask them about their day, connect with their hobbies
Clarity

Book:
- Stuff you should know

Why Teach:
- bringing in OpenMindNess to students

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Personal definition of assessment:
- Where are we going and where do we need to go and where did we end up

Go to assessment:
- standard tool
- small groups

How to work smarter not harder:
- collaborate, not about yourself but your team

Advice:
- Don't walk alone

Book:
- Twitter

Why teach:
- the stories to take home
- the students coming back to visit
- impact you can make on students

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Personal definition of assessment:
- a procedure for making inferences

Go to assessment:
- white boards
- having conversations

How to work smarter not harder:
- understanding the purpose and inferences you are trying to make

Advice:
- teach to test

Book:
- Teacher Clarity Playbook
- How Learning Happens

Why Teach:
- you won't know until you meet your students

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Personal definition of assessment:
- determining eligibility for an IEP
- measures social skills and behaviors

Go to assessment:
- running records
- FMP

How to work smarter not harder:
- using different resources, using the resources around you

Advice:
- Be careful with who you surround yourself with, positive people

Book:
- filtering stuff out
- leadership books
- she says she reflects on her stuff and remembers why she is here

Why Teach:
- You will have students that you will remember for the rest of their life, being the person that believes in your students

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Person definition of assessment:
- when you have a goal or an objective you want to meet, determining if you have made completed your goal

Go to assessments:
- Rubric- ties to what your standards are- more objective- create your own rubric

How to work harder not smarter:
- using a rubric because there is no guessing game
- You don't have to have a massive amount of in class work or homework
- You don't have to grade everything
- Make you of informal assessments

Advice:
- have procedures and routines from day one

Book:
- Learning by Doing
- Podcast by Adam Grant

Why teach:
- teach for your kids

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Personal definition of assessment:
- a tool to determine what your students know and what they are ready to learn

Go to assessments:
- tool kits for hand-on assessments

How to work smarter not harder:
- set boundaries for yourself
- have one plan day a week to plan for the week

Advice:
- be extra nice to the secretary and custodian
- listen to your team and your co workers
- take a risk and try something
- stay off your phone
- don't take yourself too seriously
- leave your home problems at the door

Book:
- Out of my Mind

Why Teach:
- You can be funny; you can laugh, and you are impacting the future

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Personal definition of assessment:
- can the students apply that knowledge, and can they understand what the standard is asking for

Go to assessment:
- open ended assessments

How to work smarter not harder:
- start out slow

Advice:
- know you students and show that you care about them

Book:
- Culture Code

Why Teach:
- So students can have someone in their life that is stable and consistent, being an advocate for students

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Presidential Math and Science award
Teacher of the year

Personal definition of assessment:
- the day-to-day of what you are noticing with your students

Go to assessment:
- small groups- each student will get some of your time and you are able to see their progress. You will also be able to create a relationship with your students.

How to work smarter not harder:
- you need to be a team, divide and conquer

Advice:
- You need to make relationship with the students, the parents and the staff

Book:
- Gift of Dyslexia
- Morning Meeting book

Why Teach:
- Teaches matter, to make an impact on the students
- you get the privilege of watching and being a part of someone's story

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Personal definition of assessment:
- an estimation of the quality, ability or nature of something. It's snapshot of how the students are working and seeking progress at that time

Go to assessment:
- NTSS assessments
- screening/diagnostics

How to work smarter not harder:
- You have to have a process, and make sure you and your team are on the same page

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1. I noticed that they all encouraged us to use our resources and create relationships with your peers. Being a new teacher, the first year will be tough but it's important to remember that not everything has to be on your own.
2. Some of the strategies that I heard was observation, hands on assessment and screening. I think you can learn a lot of just looking at what your students are doing and getting them involved.
3. I really like the advice to have one plan day. I think this can really help find the work like/personal life balance. I also think that this will prevent over working and burn out.
4.  I think I connect with Dena Steen the most. Hearing her story about the students was truly powerful. She got to see students' growth in practice, and I strive to have a classroom like she does.
5. What surprised me is that some of the didn't go to college to be a teacher at first. Another thing was that some of these mentors started out as classroom teacher but are now in higher education placements.
6. I would really like to check out the book Gift of Dyslexia. I think I would give me a huge insight of how students with dyslexia learn and what they go through on a day to day. Another one is the book Morning Meeting. I think this would be a great book to read to make sure I am taking care of myself as a person while succeeding in my career.  Kelly Tines has a lot of good things to say about Adam Grant's podcast so I would check those out. Brandi England mentioned books about leadership. I would listen to podcast about leadership to ensure that I can be a teacher my students can look up to. Lastly, Spencer Brown mentioned that he reads How Learning Happens. I think reading this book would be very beneficial as a teacher.
7. Have you ever been burnt out, if so, how did you get through it?