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About speaking up. i didn't set out to be a teacher. i wanted to be a pediatrician. my family said that doing law and medicine was the thing that was a respectable thing to do. so when i was in school, i volunteered in a preschool and fell in love with the students and fell in love with what it took to get them to be really excited about learning, and i wanted to make that happen in high school. so i've been teaching for five years now. i'm just now coming to terms with the term teacher. very proud to be a teacher. it's taken a long time. if the vision is that teachers can replace pundits as t...

And ms. or mrs. in front of the title because, afterall, they're teachers. when we talk about your kind of civil insurrection in seattle, we also want to make it clear, and i know this was important to you, you're not against testing. we need a standard of measurement. also need common sense along the way. >> well, teachers invented testing. so i'm not against testing. i'm not against assessment. what i am against is the inundation of our classrooms with standardized testing. it's gotten completely out of hand. one parent in chicago when i went to speak there told me their kindergartener takes...

Questions about teaching and learning, they need to think first, when i want to talk to an expert, i need to talk to a classroom teacher. as a classroom teacher, i've taken a lot of time to build relationships with my local legislators. i've been to washington, d.c. i've talked with my senators, my congressional representatives about national, federal education policy. i want them to think of me as the expert when they're passing laws. >> awesome. you are an expert, kristen. sorry about that. >> thank you very much. time for a short break here. we're going to continue this conversation, approp...

Of a double whammy. the ink wasn't even dry on the new teacher evaluation legislation and systems before then common core ended up in people's inboxes also. so my experience is that people have seen these as two enormous undertakings and initiatives and separate from each other. it seems to me that the smart way to go and the right thing to do is to merge them and to have a definition of good teaching, which my framework tries to be, in which good practice, excellent teaching also yields learning on the common core. so that's my 2013 version of the framework. i'm involved in a project right no...

Jersey. she's a nationally board certified teacher. but you have an idea to use social media to elevate the idea of teaching. >> i do. i think it's really important for us to all know that we have a voice that extends beyond our classroom. while some of us may be afraid to embrace social media, there are a lot of people out there on twitter. even just on facebook. what we put out there through our messages can be very powerful. we can really take it to the next level and not only learn from one another but to strengthen the profession and become nationally board certified teachers and demonstr...