Logging into SmartTeach

• Before you log in for the first time, make sure you have the username and temporary password for your SmartTeach account that you received via email from [email protected].
• OSPI issues login credentials for teachers after they have registered for the required WaKIDS 101 training. Sign up for WaKIDS 101 here.

Fall Checkpoint: August 1, 2024 – November 15, 2024

Winter Checkpoint: November 21, 2024 – March 15, 2025

Spring Checkpoint: March 16, 2025 – June 15, 2025

You can access GOLD Support Portal articles and videos to learn more about how to incorporate GOLD features and functionality into your day-to-day teaching and learning practices.

Within SmartTeach, teachers can access the following features.

• The Library and Teach areas – Access hundreds of Intentional Teaching Experiences and Mighty Minutes.
  • Intentional Teaching Experiences are designed specifically to support social–emotional, physical, language, mathematics, and literacy skill development, and they align to the GOLD objectives.
  • Mighty Minutes feature short activities that include songs, chants, rhymes, and games that can help you turn every minute of the day into a learning opportunity, and they also align to the GOLD objectives.
  • Teachers may also use the planning calendar features in the Teach area to seamlessly blend curriculum and assessment practices digitally.
• The Assess area – Engage in high-quality ongoing formative assessment practices by entering documentation with preliminary levels throughout the checkpoint period. Automatically connect assessment data and observation capabilities with daily instructional resources, creating an instantaneous and ongoing feedback loop of information to individualize learning and capture observations in the moment. Teachers complete and finalize checkpoints in the Assess area.
• The Develop area – Access the Quorum eLearning Platform for 2-hour product tutorials and a selection of on-demand courses. Access the Interrater Reliability Certification via the Develop area and Quorum.
• The Hub –Participate in an online professional learning community with thousands of other teachers worldwide.
• The Engage area – Engage family members with family observations, family-facing learning resources, and two-way communication. Teachers can seamlessly integrate family observations into their documentation to inform checkpoint ratings, whether in a traditional classroom or distance learning setting.
• The Reports area – Generate a variety of reports to inform instruction and individualize learning.
  • Class Profile Report
  • Individual Child Report
  • Report Card
  • Development and Learning Report
  • Snapshot Report
  • Snapshot (Birth Through Third Grade) Report
  • Snapshot By Dimension Report 

For WaKIDS 101 support, reach out through this email address:  [email protected]

For technical assistance implementing the WaKIDS process, reach out to your WaKIDS Coordinator.

Find your regional support

If you do not see children in your SmartTeach class, they have not been added to your account. Please contact your building administrator and/or District Assessment Coordinator to import your roster into the system.  DO NOT ADD CHILDREN YOURSELF.

Your building administrator can connect with your DAC.  You can also check this link for more information and scroll down to the District Test Coordinator information.

This support article can help you finalize checkpoints: https://teachingstrategies.my.site.com/portal/s/article/How-do-I-finalize-checkpoints 

When you have entered checkpoint ratings for each objective and dimension within an area for each child in your class, you can finalize that area to fully complete your checkpoint entry for that area. You can finalize an area directly after entering ratings for the last item in an area, or you can come back to the Checkpoint dashboard to finalize at a later time.

OSPI requires teachers to collect at least one piece of documentation to support their assessment as they assign levels to children’s skills, knowledge, and abilities. This means one piece of documentation per child per objective and dimension. However, teachers can leverage one piece of documentation for multiple objectives, dimensions, and children.

• Teacher App 
• Family App & Engage area
• Digital Forms
• Intentional Teaching Experiences
• Mighty Minutes
• Development and Learning Activities

• Assessment At-a-Glance Dashboard 
• Incorporate Intentional Teaching Experiences and Mighty Minutes into your planning process in the Teach area to seamlessly connect ongoing formative assessment with teaching and learning.
  • Planning for Intentional Teaching Experiences 
  • Teaching With Intentional Teaching Experiences 
  • Planning for Mighty Minutes 

Interrater Reliability Certification in SmartTeach is an online certification process that allows teachers to evaluate sample child portfolios and compare their ratings with those of the anchor scores from  Teaching Strategies. Receiving your IRR Certification means that your ratings of children’s knowledge, skills, behaviors, and abilities agree with the ratings determined by GOLD®. Think of the IRR as a norming assessment to ensure that what you consider a level 6 is what another teacher considers to be a level 6.  For more information, you can access this link.

Fall Checkpoint: August 1, 2024 – November 15, 2024

Winter Checkpoint: November 21, 2024 – March 15, 2025

Spring Checkpoint: March 16, 2025 – June 15, 2025

For technical assistance implementing the WaKIDS process, reach out to your WaKIDS Coordinator.

Please remember that DAC-specific questions, such as those involving child import, can also be answered using this email address:  [email protected]

• How Do I Finalize Checkpoints?
• Smart Suggestions for Checkpoints

Assessment Status Report

• • Log into SmartTeach
  • Select the Help icon in the upper right of your screen.
  • Select WaKIDS DAC Resources.

You can request a copy from OSPI through this email address:  [email protected] 

The WaKIDS Whole-Child Assessment data can be used for the following purposes.

1. To provide targeted support to children who entered kindergarten with skills and abilities below expectations

2. To share with specialists and other district staff to guide instructional planning

3. To prompt further investigation about children’s strengths and needs, including as part of the information for highly capable and special education services

4. To share with families, including at conferences and with report cards

5. To look for trends in student needs to prioritize resources for targeted support to schools and classrooms

6. To track student growth across the TK/kindergarten year

7. To determine professional development needs, including with community preschool teachers

8. To prepare reports for conversations with local early learning providers

9. To share with the school board and community stakeholders

• GOLD Reports for Administrators
• Snapshot Report
• Comparative Report
• Alignment Report