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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.

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

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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.
-Your role as an educator and what you can support them with so assessment to her is not that paper pencil type of assessment

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:
-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.

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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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

Great advise for a new teacher:
-Don't take yourself so seriously
-Going to make mistakes but don't put yourself down. Laugh with your kids
-Greet your students everyday

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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

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

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:
-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.
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

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KSU Guest Mentor Series Brandi England (SPED)

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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.

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

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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.

Greatest advise for a new teacher:
-Give nicknames to the students and that interacting with them and is making connections
-Give procedures- go slow and go fast and then the students will understand and feel a connection with the teacher

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Guest Mentor KSU Assessment Natasha Roseberry Part 1

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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

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.

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.

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KSU Guest Mentor Spencer Brown Assessment

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

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

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Guest Mentor #1 Tabatha Rosproy Early Childhood