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Early Education
Personal definition assessment:
- Accurate picture of where students are academically.

Go To Assessments:
- My igdis: figure out how we can tailor instruction.
- Dial 4 assessment.
- Apes

How to work smarter, not harder:
- Concentrate piece-  by piece on your day. What you expect of students at certain parts of the day.
- Think about the environment set up.

Greatest advice to new teacher:
- Lean on support in the community. Take the help, take the resources.

Book recommendation:
- Easy to love, difficult to discipline by Dr. Becky Bailey.

Why Teach?
- No job you are going to get more joy and purpose out of doing.

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Personal definition of assessment:
- A procedure for making inferences.
*Whatever my inference is, it can only go as far as that assessment.

Go To Assessments:
- Whiteboards
- Conversations

How to work smarter, not harder:
- Understanding what interpretation you're trying to make based off of your assessments.

Greatest advice to a new teacher:
- Teach to the test.

Book Recommendations:
- Teacher clarity playbook.
- IES practice guides.

Why Teach?
- You won't know until you meet your kids.

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Personal definition of assessment:
- Getting to know what the kids know, and how you are going to use that information. Show what you know, what did you say.

Go to assessments:
- Exit tickets. (Sticky notes, pictures, diagrams, say something about what they learned)

How to work smarter, not harder:
- Make the kids do everything.
- Have kids do things together.
- Dry erase markers and whiteboards.

Story:
- Exit tickets had the most impact on her. Was most helpful to see where kids were at and what they need.

Greatest advice to a new teacher:
- Relationships!!! Giving nicknames can be something to have a connection, greetings, get to know families and reach out. Have a little something with each of them to bring you a little closer.
- You can never do too much procedure. You can't practice it or re-practice it enough. It can make students feel more secure if they know what is expected of them. You don't have to run a tight ship, you just have to run an orderly ship.

Book/podcast recommendations:
- Stuff you should know podcast.

Why Teach?
-  Those smiles.
- The kids saying and writing you at the end of the year saying thank you for teaching them something they never would have thought of.
- Knowing they need people.
- They are the future of America.
- When you see they are excited to come to school, it is the satisfying thing.

Room walk:
- All about me's.
- Wonder wall.
- Layover activities (list of things they can do when they are done with things).
- Rubrics for them to ask themselves if they have what is needed.
- Light stuck on wall matched with voice levels.

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Personal definition of assessment:
- Assessing how they are feeling and where they are at.
- Figuring out where you end up.
- Seeing what they are learning.
- Not all about the content.

Go to assessments:
- Learning continuum.
- Small groups.

How to work smarter, not harder:
-  Collaborate. Your team can teach you a lot. You will always get more done.

Greatest advice to a new teacher:
- Don't walk alone. Coworkers can be there to help. They can help you reread emails, etc.
- Walking walls in other people's classrooms.

Book/podcast recommendations:
- Twitter can be a great tool to see into other people's classrooms.
- How do you hug a porcupine. Can help shape who we are as a teacher.

Why Teach?
- Having students come back to talk to you.
- Having students remember you.

Room Walk:
- Class goals for reading.
- Can talk to them about sometimes we don't meet our goals and then go over how we can get to where we want to be.
- Anchor charts.
- Classroom jobs.
- Flexible seating.

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Personal definition of assessment:
- Pure observations to achievement tests. Curriculum based measures.

Go to assessments:
- Running records.

How to work smarter not harder:
- Using different resources around you, including veteran teachers.

Greatest advice to new teachers:
- Be careful who you surround yourself with. Surround yourself with the positive, not the negative.
- Find yourself with the good.

App recommendation:
- Behavior snap.

Why teach?
- Remembering kids for the rest of your life.
- Getting to know the kids individually.
- Watching them grow.
- They need somebody to believe in them.

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Personal definition of assessment:
-  Any time of your life when you have a goal and you have to assess if you were able to complete it.

Go to assessments:
- Rubrics.

How to work smarter, not harder:
- Rubrics help. Help to know expectations.
- Don't have to have massive amounts of homework.

Greatest advice as a new teacher:
- Have procedures and routines from the beginning of the year to build structure.

Book/podcast recommendations:
- Books: Learning by doing and Excellence in every classroom.
- Cult of pedagogy podcast.

Why teach?
- Teach for kids.

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**Kindergarten**

Personal definition of assessment:
- A tool to determine what they know and what they are ready to learn next.

Go to Assessments:
- Hands-on.
- Tool kit.

How to work smarter, not harder:
- Set boundaries, but also do job.
- Working ahead.
- Work a lot with team.

Advice for new teachers:
- Be nice to the secretary and custodian.
- Listen to team and coworkers.
- Take a risk and try something.
- Stay off phones!!!
- Don't take yourself too seriously.
- Leave your home problems at the door.

Book recommendations:
- Out of my mind

Why Teach?
- A fun job where you can be funny.
- Impacting the future. Making a difference every day.
- Teaching isn't for everyone, but everyone needs a great teacher.

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Personal definition of assessment:
- Can students apply the knowledge
- Give students an opportunity to show what they know.
- A process

Go to assessments:
- Open-ended.

How to work smarter, not harder:
- Go slow to start with.
- It will be hard to take everything in, especially at first. Take pieces at a time and do the best you can with it.

Greatest advice to new teachers:
- Know and care about the students. Build that relationship.
- Find out what makes students tick.

Book recommendations:
- Culture code.
- Small bets.

Why teach?
- Students to have people who are in their life who are stable.
- Knowing there's a little piece you gave them on their trail that helped them.
- The impact that you get to have.

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Personal definition of assessment:
- Make observations on students of what they are mastering and what they are still struggling with. More of the day to day to what they are noticing.

Go to assessments:
- Small groups. Allows students to get your time.

How to work smarter, not harder:
- Be a team.
- Divide and concur.
- Use students in your classroom to help get you through the school day.

Greatest advice to new teachers:
- Make relationships with students, parents, and staff.
- Find out what students love.
- The value it gives students knowing you will go to the things they do outside of school like soccer games, cheer competitions, dance/ballet recitals, etc.
- It is hard to have hard conversations with parents, but they will respect you for doing that.
- You don't have to love everybody on your staff, but you have to love something about everybody on your staff.
- Time and relationships!!!

Book recommendations:
- The gift of dyslexia.
- The morning meeting book. Written for educators, gives you things to do with kids.
- Despite the best intentions.

Why teach?
- Making an impact.
- Knowing you played a little part when they go on to do great things.
- The job is important.
- You are responsible for helping every student in your classroom to think about what they could do in their life.
- Need teachers who are going to support the kids.
- If it is something important to you, you will be a good asset.
_ Connections and impact!!!

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Personal definition of assessment:
- An estimation. A snapshot of a kid on that day.
- Starts with where the learning happens.

Go to assessments:
- MTSS assessments.
- Exit tickets.

How to work smarter, not harder:
- You have to have a process.
- Have a framework for how you are going to look at the data and stick to it and be consistent.
- Teamwork.

Greatest advice to new teachers:
- Respect your impact. Students are going to look to you for relationships, and your impact is huge.

Book/podcast recommendations:
- Thinking fast and slow. (Book about choice making).
- Jack Fletcher.

Why teach?
- Kids need us.
- You can instantly change a child's life when you walk in it.
- Kids are the people of today and the people of tomorrow.