LYS Principal Search

LYS Executive Search

~ Elementary School Principal ~

A Texas Gulf Coast area school district is searching for its next elementary school principal. The successful candidate will have:

• Demonstrated leadership success at the campus level
• Demonstrated success educating at-risk student populations
• Experience in curriculum implementation and teacher support
• LYS training and experience, preferred

Information of Note:

• Small elementary school
• Located in a rural, Texas Gulf Coast area community
• Excellent location to raise a family
• Recent successful bond election to upgrade campuses
• Diverse student population
• 2010/2011 Accountability Rating - Academically Acceptable
• Salary Range - Competitive with the area

Qualified candidates should submit the following to Search@LeadYourSchool.com

• Letter of interest
• Resume
• Texas administrators’ certification
• Two letters of reference

Application Deadline: June 14, 2012 


Search Consultant: E. Don Brown

LYS Executive Search

(832) 477-5323

LYS Nation, once again a school district is specifically looking for you to be its next campus leader.

Think. Work. Apply.

Your turn...

• Call Jo at (832) 477-LEAD to order your campus set of “The Fundamental 5: The Formula for Quality Instruction.” Individual copies available on Amazon.com!  http://tinyurl.com/4ydqd4t
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation
• Now at the Apple App Store: Fun 5 Plans (Fundamental 5 Lesson Plan Tool); PW Lite (Basic PowerWalks Tool); PW Pro (Mid-level PowerWalks Tool)
• Confirmed 2012 Presentations: TASSP Conference (multiple sessions); Region 10 ESC Fall Leadership Conference (Keynote)

A Reader Asks... PowerWalks Hero Schools

In regards to the monthly PowerWalks Hero School designation and listings a LYS Principal on a small campus asks:

SC,

I’m just curious.

In March, there were 96 PowerWalks conducted on my campus and we were named a Hero School.

In April, we conducted 98 PowerWalks on my campus and we were not named a Hero School.

Again, not complaining, just curious?

SC Response

Great question and the answer is that the designation is somewhat arbitrary. The cutoff number varies from month to month, based on what the entire field of observers and campuses were able to do in a given month. This makes the "Hero" designation a little like a golf tournament.  In golf, if you shoot five under par, you are obviously a good golfer. However, sometimes five under par wins the tournament and sometimes five under par puts you in the middle of the pack.  On a campus your size a monthly total of between 100 and 150 classroom observations usually puts you in the hunt.  As you have observed, your monthly totals typically places you in a "very good, with a chance of hero" position.  

Just keep in mind, that even with veteran principals and seasoned classroom observers, it takes about 300 new observations before you will notice something new or figure something out.  For you, based on your volume of observations, that something new is popping up about once every three to four months.  On most campuses, it might take years.  That is why for some observing classrooms boarders on obsession.  It is the most active way to quench one’s thirst for professional knowledge.

Think. Work. Achieve.

Your turn...

• Call Jo at (832) 477-LEAD to order your campus set of “The Fundamental 5: The Formula for Quality Instruction.” Individual copies available on Amazon.com!  http://tinyurl.com/4ydqd4t 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation 
• Now at the Apple App Store: Fun 5 Plans (Fundamental 5 Lesson Plan Tool); PW Lite (Basic PowerWalks Tool); PW Pro (Mid-level PowerWalks Tool)
• Confirmed 2012 Presentations: TASSP Conference (multiple sessions); Region 10 ESC Fall Leadership Conference (Keynote)

A Reader Writes... Student Apathy - Part 1

In response to the 3/29/2012 post, “A New Principal Asks... Student Apathy,” a LYS Principal writes:

SC,

This was an excellent and timely post - I appreciate the practices and ideas you have expressed in this post.

SC  Response

Thanks for the positive comment.  And your campus (a junior high school, no less) is a great example of a staff that is holding itself accountable to connecting with every student. I was a little concerned that the post was preaching to the choir (which I admit, many of my posts do). But that doesn’t seem to be the case. The post evidently struck a chord with the LYS Nation and within four day, the post was the most widely distributed of all time.

Keep up the great work and let the staff know that I’ll see them soon.

Think. Work. Achieve.

Your turn...

• Call Jo at (832) 477-LEAD to order your campus set of “The Fundamental 5: The Formula for Quality Instruction.” Individual copies available on Amazon.com!  http://tinyurl.com/4ydqd4t 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation
• Now at the Apple App Store: Fun 5 Plans (Fundamental 5 Lesson Plan Tool); PW Lite (Basic PowerWalks Tool); PW Pro (Mid-level PowerWalks Tool)
• Confirmed 2012 Presentations: TASSP Conference (multiple sessions); Region 10 ESC Fall Leadership Conference (Keynote)

Top LYS Tweets From the Week of May 20, 2012

I just came across an app that allows the to student alert the teacher if he or she is confused or needs some assistance. Seemingly a great use of bootleg technology and a tool that makes the teacher more efficient. Except that it isn’t.  

The power of bootleg technology isn’t its ability to replace good teaching practice (the teacher in the Power Zone, making micro-adjustments to instruction based on real-time formative assessment).  The power of bootleg technology is that it places the depth and breadth of human knowledge in the palm of your student’s hand.  Beware of the app and the degradation of teacher practice that makes your live classrooms more like an impersonal virtual classroom.  

A number of you in the LYS Nation are now using your own bootleg technology devices to follow Twitter.  If you haven’t done so yet, we want you to join us.  To let you see what you are missing, here are the Top 10 LYS Tweets from the week of May 20, 2012.

1. The change in adult practice is the leading indicator. The change in student performance is the lagging indicator.

2. The deeper the deficits in student knowledge, motivation, and courage, the longer they have to be exposed to better instruction to improve.

3. Let me sum up your STAAR data analysis: "We know we have a lot a work to do. Now let's do it."

4. Remember, until we see disaggregated statewide data, your STAAR test results are just raw info. Good and bad are relative terms.

5. $30 million to administer the STAAR? What budget crisis? (By @cheadhorn)

6. And now the uncomfortable reality of sole teacher accountability for test results begins to set in.

7. THE critical factor in the pursuit of greatness is pain threshold. Good rarely hurts.

8. Life is a contact sport. Buckle your chinstrap and have fun!

9. Before you debate the merits of a student dress code, ask if the adults are willing to model the code. If the answer is "No," drop the issue.

10. Bigger classes, lower-paid teachers, public money diverted to private schools, $1 billion to Pearson. If you aren’t standing up now, when will you? (By @johnkuhntx)

Vote. Vote. Vote.

Your turn...

• Call Jo at (832) 477-LEAD to order your campus set of “The Fundamental 5: The Formula for Quality Instruction.” Individual copies available on Amazon.com!  http://tinyurl.com/4ydqd4t
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation
• Now at the Apple App Store: Fun 5 Plans (Fundamental 5 Lesson Plan Tool); PW Lite (Basic PowerWalks Tool); PW Pro (Mid-level PowerWalks Tool)
• Confirmed 2012 Presentations: TASSP Conference (multiple sessions); Region 10 ESC Fall Leadership Conference (Keynote)