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Guest Mentor #1 Tabatha Rosproy Early Childhood

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Guest Mentor #1 Tabatha Rosproy Early Childhood

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Background:
-Teaching for 12 years
-taught preschool/moved into coaching to support other childhood educators
-2020 national teacher of the year

Definition of assessment:
-Gives a accurate picture of where students are both academically and social emotional realm.

Some go-to assessments that guide teaching:
-My igds- assessment tool to give an idea of norm reference. Gives a idea where students are at compared to any preschooler on the street ( not just the students in their class)
- Igds is a kid friendly quick way to figure out how to meet the best needs of the students.
-Dial 4 assessment- use on any students that come in.
- Aeps- involves the family and their perspectives on their child.

How does Tabitha work smarter not harder:
-Think about your day in a linear way
-Concentrate on piece by piece on the day. What did she expect of her students of that time of day? What did the expect of herself? Also what did she expect other staff in her room?
- Created systems routines into routines that helped her take data quickly, change things around in her environment so her students can be more independent and successful.
-Students need to function independently some of the time so she can work with smaller groups

Her story of what she assessed that had a impact:
- Look at each students skills
-Thought a student was left dominate and told the family. Realized she wasn't paying close attention
- She is also a special education teacher and assess a student that she worked with sometimes and  a lot of others thought he didn't have the skills ready to move into the gen ed setting with the particular skill, but the data she took and the work she put in she was able to do one-on-one gave the other team members ideas and helped them to figure out what the student needed

Greatest advised for a new teacher:
-Lean on the support from your community
-All the teachers in the building

A book to read that she liked:
- Easy to Love Easy to Discipline by Dr. Becky Bailey
- Any book that addresses your own biases
- How to Build an Equitable Classroom
-Follow Conscious Kid on Instagram- has great book ideas to read and recommendations

How she became an educator:
- She wanted to help people
-taught Spanish to a preschoolers

Why teach:
-No job out there that you will get the job, fulfillment, and purpose that you get out of being a teacher
- Being an educator making a difference for the students
- Giving back to the community

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Guest Mentor #1 Tabatha Rosproy Early Childhood

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Guest Mentor #2 Spencer Brown Assessment

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Guest Mentor #2 Spencer Brown Assessment

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Background:
-Teaching for 10 years
-Currently math coordinator in Olathe Public Schools
-Also works for Kansas mtss in alignment
-Travels around to different districts in the state

Definition of assessment:
-Procedure for making inferences. Asking something, going to observe that, and going to make an inference based on that.
-No valid assessment there's only valid and valid interpretations.

Some go-to assessments that guide teaching:
-Whiteboards
-More time to pause to have conversations with each other
- Saying- The organism are always right: meaning what will be the ultimate assessment.

How does Spencer work smarter not harder:
-understanding what inference he's trying to make or interpretation he's trying to make based on assessment
- If he designs his assessment strategically  they he can get the information he needs in a more efficient way
- Challenges: Tend to not understand the differences between at-risk assessments or even at-risk items and proficiency so teachers assume all kids should have great scores on every assessments and that not fully true.

Her story of what she assessed that had an impact:
-Whenever he learns something he learns one thing about it and then multiple things about it and then he understands it relationally
-When he was a student in geometry he was supposed to learn the distance formula- Learned the distance formula is the pythagorean theorem and the teacher told him that and the teacher drugged it out and he still doesn't have it memorized but can write it out easily because he knows the pythagorean theorem
- His teacher did a good job getting him to that relational phase through a simple assessment after his test.

Greatest advise for a new teacher:
-Teach to the test, which most people say that a bad thing to do. His opinion when people say do not teach to the test he understands the sentiment that is the natural relationship between assessment and instruction.
- We should be starting with our assessment by saying what is it that we want kids to know. Then how do we design instruction to get there.

A book to read he likes:
-Teacher clarity playbook- Does a great job helping us understand the quality of your instructions is less about what you do and more about are your kids cognitively engaged.
=Any of the IES practice guides- Google it and they come up with math, helping students who are struggling, to word problem advice, and reading.
-Anything John Pegg: Solo taxonomy is a nice approach to assessment
-Dylan Willam: Has a lot of videos to watch and learn more things about assessment
- How Learning Happens by Paul Kirchner and Carl Hendrick

- How he became an educator:
-So he can coach football and in order to do that he was going to be a high school math teacher
His coach told him that a good teacher is a good coach

Why Teach:
- You won't know until you meet your kids and then you will know. That's the piece that not all teachers won't disagree with
- Be there for the students
-Pour life into kids everyday

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KSU Guest Mentor Spencer Brown Assessment

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Guest Mentor #3 Natasha Roseberry Assessment

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Guest Mentor #3 Natasha Roseberry Assessment

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Background:
- 3rd grade teacher currently at Washington
- She's been teaching for 6 years

Definition of assessment:
- Getting to know what kids know and how she's going to use that information, so any way possible it is knowing what they know.
- She calls it "show what we know" or throwing out what did she say but overall it is looking at what did she do today that they took away with them that she either needs to do.

Some go-to assessments that guide teaching:
-Exit tickets on everything
- For each subject she makes her own questions sometimes but it can be something short or having the students just say something about what they learned.

How does Natasha work smarter not harder:
-Make the students do everything. The more they do, the less we have to do
- Have the students work together so they can asses each other and sometimes she asked questions
-Sticky notes and dry erase makers/whiteboard's are best

Her story of what she assessed that had an impact:
- She taught at summer camp and had an assessment exit ticket every single day and that had the most impact on her because on how much she learned and how much she knew about her students
- She bonded with the coworkers and students and the summer camp

Greatest advise for a new teacher:
- Relationships
- Give nicknames to the students and that interacting with them and is making connections
- Greeting at the doors and making time for families are for the best support
- Sitting with the students and not sit at the best the whole time
- Gets involved with the students activities
- Give procedures- go slow and go fast and then the students will understand and feel a connection with the teacher
- "Don't have to run a tight ship, you can run an orderly ship with expectations that are clear"

A book to read she likes:
-Stuff you should know podcast- Her husband listens to it
-Ender's game- It's about children who are brilliant that are saving the world

Story on how she became an educator:
-She was traveling and got an invitation to go teach in China
-She had to figure out how to teach the students English and how to help the students
-After that she switched and wanted to become a teacher

Why Teach:
- Smiles from the students
- Students writing her letters at the end of the school year
-Curriculum is important but can add videos and bring things into the classroom to open the students mind

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Guest Mentor KSU Assessment Natasha Roseberry Part 1

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Background:
-Teaching for 21 years
-Started her career at K-State
-Generations of her family went to K-State

Definition of assessment:
-Her class are assessed all the time, so many times where she is just observing them, might be on a whiteboard and show her what the students know. For elementary assessment is constant from the moment they walk in the door and assessing how ready are they to learn.

Some go-to assessments that guide teaching:
-It is important to know you have a standard tool that you are looking at all of the kids on the same basis.
-She uses the learning continuum within map as a standardized tool to group her students and to figure out where they are.

How does Christina work smarter not harder:
-Collaborate- It's about the team. How much you can learn from your team that you can bring into your teaching
-Team works better together

Her story of what she assessed that had an impact:
-She loves small groups and has the students come back to work with her. This has shaped her entire classroom.
-Even the high students need to grow. Having small groups lets the higher students learn something new
-Students who are struggling get to ask her things that they couldn't in front of the whole class
-It's giving the students a chance to show you what they know

Greatest advise for a new teacher:
-Don't walk alone. Her Coworkers can just be a body in the classroom when she had to call a parent about a difficult situation, how many emails her coworkers read over to make her she is saying what she needs to say
-Go into other people's classrooms you can learn and pick up things

A book to read she likes:
- She enjoys twitter- Great tool to see inside of other teachers classrooms
-Youtube and Pinterest is what she also enjoys getting ideas from
-Core books-mentor text that you can take and shape your classroom community. How do you hug a porcupine is also a great book that she enjoys

Story on how she became an educator:
-She always wanted to be a teacher
-A lot of her family members are teachers
-She enjoyed kids
-She never wanted to be anything else and loves seeing the students
-Her husband is also a teacher

Why teach:
-The stories you go home with from the students
-The impact you have from the students
-Going to have tough times but have to remember your why
-Students look up to you

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Background:
-She started teaching in 2007- 14years
-Has been elementary resource the entire time
-She's k-12 certified so did student teaching for both elementary and secondary
-Has an undergraduate degree is special ed from University of Central Missouri
-Went back to school to get her masters in autism at KU and also has her admin license from Emporia State

Brandi's personal definition of assessment:
-She has assessment that are very informal that are pure observation based on what she sees in the classroom or what kids are doing and that can go all the way up to standardized assessments
-Anecdotal vs data driven- Brandi used both of these all the time. Looking at younger kids with more complex behaviors she sometimes needs the anecdotal notes, so she can go back and look at those things she's knows and really analyze it later on.
- She likes behavior checklist, sheets, taken tallies, and taking data. It makes her job way easier

Some go-to assessments that guide teaching:
- When she is looking at reading at the elementary level she looks at her running records and fnps and those type of things give her more information than anything else
-FNPS- A Sympanel she gives that is a benchmark assessment and helps her decide what levels the kids are on and if they are making gains
-Her listening to a student helps her determine what types of errors they are making, what kind of skills they are lacking, and then looking at that comprehension piece

How does Brandi work smarter not harder:
-The stuff she uses is pretty straight forward for her role is much different than planning in a classroom her groups are in 30 minute increments and so a lot of the things she is using are pretty strategic and she's not necessarily writing lesson plans every 30 minutes but she's might be using different resources every 30 minutes and knowing where to pull those from and being here long enough helps her work a little smarter but until you gain that experience it's using the resources around you.

Her story of what she assessed that had an impact:
-A student that she had for a few years and his background is kind of interesting and he has just been through a lot in life and the think when he first walked through the doors and what he was able to show everybody maybe not everybody expected a lot from him when he first walked in but then getting to know him and taking the time to get to know him a little bit better so he was comfortable and then giving him some assistance when she was going through the whole evaluation process his IQ scores and data points some serious skills and she need to really monopolize on those you know because it's going to help him in the area but he's not as strong in.

Greatest advise for a new teacher:
-Be very careful of who you surround yourself with. Want the positive and not the negative
-If you know your true north and surround yourself as a good students are so much fun to have

A book to read she likes:
-Filtering out the stuff. Having that time to reflect on why she is doing this
-Shutting out the chatter and remembering why she is here teaching because everyone has an opinion in this world
-Twitter she likes to see what is going on in her school because it is positive
-Behavioral app that she can take data on for students

How did she become a teacher?
-She was originally a nursing major
-Always wanted to help people
-Took into to education and intro to sped and she loved it and wanted to pursue her education more

Why teach:
-Remembering students and students will remember her and she helped them achieve their goals that the students thought they couldn't do
-Students need to believe in themselves
- GET IN THE GAME- a saying she uses and her students use

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KSU Guest Mentor Series Brandi England (SPED)

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Background:
-Been teaching for 23 years
-He taught upper grades
-Was an assistant principal for 3 years
- Worked a lot with families and resources
-Worked with kids from pre-k-12th grade
-Teaches for a university as well
-Science teacher and coach

Definition of assessment:
-He looks at it as can students apply knowledge. He doesn't care how they show him, but can they show them they understand what he's trying to teach
-As a new teacher he made mistakes by teaching the content by what the students brought him and showed him and then he would assess the students. He would be disappointed with the results because it wasn't what he expected.
-Making sure that the students in the learning process they actually apply the knowledge to something that may be similar or a little different

Some go-to assessments that guide teaching:
-Planning of his lessons, how his week would look, and how his whole piece would look. He would start with the standards and would break it down to what they actually mean. He broke it down five essential questions or ideas
-Students could set up a time to come see him to answer the questions to show and to grow
-Ask students to take a step further to show the class and everyone was assessed on the content of that week. If it wasn't he would go more further into the area.

How does TJ work smarter not harder:
- It real important to go slow and if you are going to be a new teacher its going to be hard to take it all in but to take a little piece that makes the most sense to you and keep growing and adding more
- Smallest thing he could do that makes the biggest impact
-Something you could do tomorrow that can make a big impact. Make a little change that can make a huge impact later on.

His story of what assessed that had an impact:
-Look at things as a compass and not a map. Wanted whole staff going in the same directions and working in the same spaces
-Build relationships with teachers and students

Greatest advise for a new teacher:
-Need to understand the students and building relationships with them
-Having a situation with a student what is one thing to make it better, sitting with eh student and finding out what is causing the student to act up
-Know the students accommodations and families
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Books he likes to read:
-Culture Code-Culture of your building culture of your plc and culture how you live.
-Small bets-how if you are in business or in schools that their is a goal set out and it gives ideas how to get there
-Deeper learning- Get into building equity in your system and different cultures

How he became a educator:
-Father was a teacher and taught for 32 years. It was the impact his father had on for students. The amount of respect his dad commanded the kids we worked with.
-His dads friend- student naturalist- This made him want to do science
- Different people being role models

Why teach:
-This is the time we need teachers most
-Having teachers who are their for students
-Show that even thought live is crazy we got this
-Impact on students and watch them be successful
-A little piece on their trail to become that person who grow and succeed

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Background:
Have continued on through and her current position here at ravenwood elementary 3rd grade Olathe school district
Definition of assessment:
The biggest thing teachers need to do is just make observations when you are in the classroom day-to-day you're making those observations on students of what they're mastering what they're still struggling with and your role as an educator and what you can support them with so assessment to her is not that paper pencil type of assessment it's type of assessment it's more the day-to-day of what you're noticing on there

Some go-to assessments that guide teaching:
She thinks it is extremely important as an educator is having small groups that's where you get the opportunity for every level of student to get your time. She had two boys that were good students and one thing that she was always kind of disappointed when they would come home and talk to me is because they were good students they didn't always get a lot of one-on-one or small group attention time from their teachers they were just assumed that they could do the work but the part that she felt their teachers were missing is that connection that relationship they could have had of still pulling them into a small group so she thinks that some of my assessing that she does that are important ones are small groups putting every single kid in a group with me for reading making sure that they are enriched if they are a high reader or they are at their level if they're still learning or even down to phonics. She had students in 3rd grade that were still learning just how to understand letters and putting those together that had special needs and those students made progress because they were one-on-one with her or in a small group she was able to assess what they could do, what they needed to do, and kind of move them on sometimes we forget about those high readers or those high achieving students and she thinks it’s important to is how can to challenge them to enrich their vocabulary.

How does Dena work smarter not harder:
Having a team in every building whether you have two teachers at your grade level four teachers.  She started her educational career in Las Vegas NV and taught first grade there were nine of them that taught first grade. Having each coworker have a different skill and strengths make it fun smoothly.  EX: She is  really good with the creative part of the lesson planning but her really my coworker is really good at rubrics she loves it. She loves making rubrics and so when they are doing a project or we're evaluating student progress they take their roles and divide it up

Her story of what she assessed that has an impact:
She had two students diagnosed with dyslexia that was a new thing that's now been coming more prominent in education and she didn't know much about. She listened to their parents or read the medical information at our sit meeting which is what a process is for helping kids have individualized goals. She read a book called The Gift of Dyslexia and it's by Ronald D Davis. It was written very friendly for a teacher to read it wasn't all data and statistics and things that were confusing it was how do you do the day-to-day in your classroom with this child who has dyslexia and when she say dyslexia my two students did not do reversals my students were it was a processing difficulty and so it very much looked like ADD but it wasn't it was more complex comprehension they could tell me the words but they were working so hard to get those words their brain couldn't comprehend. She continued to work with them and she slowly started to see some progress.

Greatest advise for a new teacher:
You need to make relationshipswith your students,  parents ,and with the staff. The  students in your classroom are your family you've got to take the time to understand everything about them you've got to help them you've got to build that confidence so taking the time and the beginning we'll see it will seem like. She always take the time and her classrooms are usually some of the highest producing classrooms and have the lowest behavior concerns in our. She takes the time to show them they're worthy of her time and that she want to know more about them a few couple things that she does is that every kid has something that they love find out what it is support it so on the weekends she will be at soccer games, dance recitals, and cheer competitions. The the value that it gives that student knowing that she care about what they do outside of school is huge and also for their parents realizing she will take the time to go support what's important to their child shows them how important their child is to her, so make the relationships with your students then that will come with the parents because they're going to notice what you're doing also it's hard to do. It is hard  to have hard conversations with parents but they will respect you for doing that so when you have something that happens make sure that you don't just send an e-mail make it a phone call a a an e-mail can be read and perceived differently than your voice speaking to them on the phone or having a face to face conversation it's tough and the first few times you'll do it you'll be sweating and you'll be nervous but you will gain the respect of that parent who tells other parents and then that will just continue to grow you also need to make a relationship with your staff that you're working with .
A book to read she likes:
I'm also reading right now in my current book club and it is called Despite the Best Intentions. This one's a lot of data because here's why it's we have great intentions of what we do with students with special needs but sometimes we're not versed enough to know what are the best procedures to help them and so this book is basically focusing on ADD students with learning disabilities students with autism.

Story of how she became an educator:
She started off interior design decided to move to education and she loved it. Every day she was doing something that she came home and she had a story. She had something she was proud of she had something that was making her fulfilled

Why Teach:
The impact that teaching gives is important. You are responsible for helping every single student in your classroom to think about what they could do in their life and when they reflect back on teachers. You don't have to be their favorite teacher but they can reflect back from being encouraged and to try this and so we have the ability to make an impact with hundreds of thousands of kids and when they go on to do great things you can think to yourself.

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Background:
-Instructional coordinator
-Started teaching in 1992
-Taught for 7 years that was English Language Arts
-First secondary instructional coach in Olathe
-Mentored teachers 7th-12th grade who were new to the district
-3 years ago she became the coordinator of instructional coaching
- Goes a thing called big three which is plc's, standards, and active engagement

Definition of assessment:

Some go-to assessments that guide teaching:
-Educator rubric which has six standards to it. Each standard has multiple educators
- Her and her own team made a rubric and goes off that
- She stated rubric are important

How does Kelly work smarter not harder:
-Rubric makes you work smarted not harder
-Know that exactly what the expectations are as a teacher
-You don't have to have massive amounts of homework or in-class work
-Need to look at how can we use formative assessment to quickly identify what areas are struggling with that can then adjust her instructions

Her story of what assessed that had an impact:
- When she was teaching and using a writing workshop and made sure her students had the rubrics in advance.
-When the students had to rubrics they knew what the expectations were and what skills needed to be displayed. She mentioned how that made a huge impact on students because they were able to self-assess what they know or don't know.
-she did peer conferencing with the students to talk to the students about what they are doing and what questions that have

Greatest advise for a new teacher:
-Have procedures and routines from day one.
-Things like entering the classroom, beginning of the hour, beginning of the day, and how to use a quieting strategy
-If students don't follow routines go over and reteach it and students like to have a routine and know what to expect

Books she likes to read:
-Learning by doing. Important for classroom teachers and will help increase students learning. So following a good PLC this book will help teachers.
-Excellence in every classroom. This book has a pyramid that he compares to Maslow's and the book talks about the teaching pyramid hierarchy. It also talks about what skills must be in place in order to have students achieve at a higher level
-Think again
-Podcast

How she became a educator:
-She wanted to be a teacher since she was five years old
-Spent most of her time watching her teachers in class to learn from them
-Did observation and loved secondary more than elementary

Why teach:
-She teaches for kids and cares deeply they have connections with adults to show develop their gifts and strengths and watch them develop into independent strong thinking brave students
-Being able to help and give them that foundation to help the students succeed in life

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Background:
-Kindergarten teacher for 27 years
-1 year fourth grade and a little bit in preschool, but wanted to be in kindergarten and has loved it

Definition of assessment:
-A tool that what students know and what they are ready to learn next
-Used for teachers to guide what students are ready to learn

Some go-to assessments that guide teaching:
-Hands-on- she uses something fast and easy because the younger students can only stay for a little bit
-She looks at her standard and does hands-on. She gets a tool like for example: like cubes
- Have tool get with students at their own desk is super easy and organized so she doesn't have to get up and pass everything out.
-Spent the first month practicing the routine for the students

How does Marsha Reeves work smarter not harder:
-Set boundaries for herself, but also needs to do her job as a teacher
-Plans every Tuesday for her following week. Goes to work early and preparing work for the next day.
-Works a lot with her team. They sit down and plan. Each team member is good at a certain part and gets it done.

Great advise for a new teacher:
- Be extra nice to the secretary and the custodian. Listen to your team and your co-workers
-Take a risk. Try something. Listen to co-workers for advice.
-Stay off your phone- Students need to know they are their.
-Don't take yourself so seriously- Going to make mistakes but don't put yourself down. Laugh with your kids
-Leave your home problems at the door. Not your students to know what is wrong
-Greet your students everyday

A book to read she likes:
-Out of my mind by Sharon Draper: About a little girl who is in a wheelchair and non-verbal and people just assume not smart, but really she's a genius and no one can see past her disability to see her ability.
Story on how she became an educator.
-Books that represent students
-Read aloud everyday for students

How she became an educator:
- 2 1/2 years went to college to be an accountant and wasn't happy
-Went to Emporia State and met her husband in the education department

Why teach:
-Teaching is not for everyone, but for her its a fun job. Where she can come and be funny, silly, and laugh but at the same time she is impacting the future and making a difference everyday
-Teaching is not for everyone, but everyone needs a great teacher

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Background:
-Does special services coordinator
-15 years five of the years in special services and 10 years being a school physiologist
-Works with a lot of different teams. Works with children from age 3 to 21
Definition of assessment:
-Assessment is an estimation of the quality of something of the nature something of the ability. It's a snapshot a student on that day in that particular state

Some go-to assessments that guide teaching:
-Someone in special education= MTSS assessments or RTI
-Looking at a good screener, having good diagnostics, having good monitoring progress with invention
-Formative assessments- exit tickets

How does Andy Heinicke work smarter not harder:
-Have to have a process which all team members are on the same page
-Have a framework for how you are going to utilize assessment, how you are going to look at that data, framework to figure out that data means and what your own validly is for that

Greatest advise for a new teacher:
-Student having a hard time academically and was presenting 4-5 grade levels behind. The student was through the foster system and was in a stable environment
-The team started to look at what his needs were and considering a different learning aspect. The student had a big commutation deficit. His cognitive measures where above average in his non-verbal skills. They had to work with him and understand the impact of drama

Greatest advise for a new teacher:
-Respect your impact. Students are going to look to you to form relationships.
-Impact goes a long way
-Remembering that assessment does have place but all roads are ultimately lead back to intervention and it's what you do with it.

A book to read she likes:
=Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman - Information behind choice making and thinking patterns
-Jack Fletcher

How she became an educator:
-Loved working with kids
-Got his psychology degree and wanted to put that towards helping children
Why teach:
-Need to teach because kids need you.
-The impact you will instantly make on the child
-Get to shape our future