Guest Mentor by Mackenzie Jones

Tabitha Rosproy (early childhood education)

mackenzie041504 — 2025-04-22 16:17:08 UTC

Tabitha is an early childhood education teacher. She has been teaching for 12 years. She talks about the importance of taking help and using resources as a first-year teacher. She gives a lot of helpful advice on the early childhood education aspect.

Spencer Brown

mackenzie041504 — 2025-04-22 16:27:17 UTC

Spencer Brown is a math coordinator. He has been working for 10 years in his current position. He works for Olathe Public Schools. He talks about his role and how assessment works. He talks about how it helps to go back to everything that is on the assessment and how that helps students.

Natasha Roseberry

mackenzie041504 — 2025-04-22 16:36:05 UTC

Natasha Roseberry is a 3rd grade teacher at Washington Elementary School. She has been teaching for 6 years. She talks about her definition of assessment and what it means to her. She talks about her usage of exit tickets. She gives great advice for future teachers.

Christina Williams

mackenzie041504 — 2025-04-22 16:46:49 UTC

Christy Williams is in her 21st year of teaching at Brome Elementary School. She talks about using resources and giving good advice to people who are going to teach. She talks about why she became a teacher, and she gives great insight into being a teacher and what it is like.

Brandi England

mackenzie041504 — 2025-04-22 16:50:34 UTC

Brandi England is a SPED teacher at Bentwood Elementary School. She has been teaching for 14 years. She advises as to what it is like working SPED at the elementary school level. She talks about assessment and how using resources helped her. She gives great advice to a teacher wanting to do SPED and what it looks like.

Kelly Tines

mackenzie041504 — 2025-04-22 16:54:38 UTC

Kelly Tines is a coaching coordinator. She started teaching in 1992. She has worked in ELA and has been an instructional coach since. She mentors teachers to help them be successful. She gives them advice and helps them be the best educator they can be. She is very educated about being a good teacher and provides great insight.

Marsha Reeves

mackenzie041504 — 2025-04-22 17:01:23 UTC

Marsha Reeves is a Kindergarten teacher. She works at Millbrook Elementary School and has been teaching for 27 years. She loves kindergarten. She taught for one year in fourth grade and did not like it. She works for the Olathe School district. She talks about her classroom and how important it is for learning. She talks about the necessity of assessment and how much it makes a difference. She loves kindergarten and gives such amazing advice about being a kindergarten teacher.

Tj Ulmer

mackenzie041504 — 2025-04-22 17:09:24 UTC

TJ Ulmer has worked for 23 years in the educational world. He was in 5th grade, 8th grade, and even in admin positions. He is currently working in a position that deals with remote learning for the Olathe District. He covers 54 schools and works with kids of all ages in K-12. He is most proud of doing AVID and getting to learn from that. He dedicates that to what helped him become a better teacher. He gives wonderful advice on being a teacher and how working in many grade levels and positions helped him.

Dena Steen

mackenzie041504 — 2025-04-22 17:23:06 UTC

Dena Steen is a 3rd grade teacher at Ravenwood Elementary School. She talks about her love of reading groups and different kinds of assessment for the students. She talks about how she handles situations and her backstory as to why she became a teacher. She talks about her why and what makes teaching something she loves. She offers great advice to future teachers.

Andy Heinicke

mackenzie041504 — 2025-04-22 17:30:44 UTC

Andy Heinicke is the coordinator for special services. He works for the Olathe Public Schools. He has been in his current role for 5 years. He was a school psychologist for 10 years before that. He talks about his perspective on assessment. He talks about the several types of services he works with and how they work. He provides great insight about them. He gives good advice for people who may want to work inside the district but not teach.