LYS Principal Search - One Week Left to Apply

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
• Convenient to Houston
• 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. Achieve.

Your turn...

LYS is currently conducting a Principal Search.  For more information, click on the link. http://tinyurl.com/LYSSearch

• 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/Fundamental5
• Call Jo at (832) 477-LEAD to order your campus set of “Look at Me: A Cautionary School Leadership Tale” Individual copies available on Amazon.com!  http://tinyurl.com/lookatmebook
• 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)
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation

New Book Release - Look at Me: A Cautionary School Leadership Tale

I’m happy to share with the LYS Nation that my latest book, Look At Me, A Cautionary School Leadership Tale, is now available at Amazon.com.  Written in the style of a fairy tale, the story reminds us of what can happen when we lose sight of the fact that we are servant leaders.  The link will take you to the book page. http://tinyurl.com/lookatmebook

Think. Work. Achieve.

Your turn...

LYS is currently conducting a Principal Search.  For more information, click on the link. http://tinyurl.com/LYSSearch

• 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/Fundamental5
• Call Jo at (832) 477-LEAD to order your campus set of “Look at Me: A Cautionary School Leadership Tale” Individual copies available on Amazon.com!  http://tinyurl.com/lookatmebook
• 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)
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation

PowerWalks Hero Schools - 2011/2012 Roll Call

Change is hard. Change that leads to measurable improvement in student performance, harder still.  Which is why I post the monthly PowerWalks Hero School list.  If teams of teachers are to have a fighting chance to not only teach at full speed but also incrementally change the way the way they do it, they need regular feedback, support and affirmation.  That does not occur when administrators are stuck in their offices.  When a school makes the PowerWalks Hero School list that is an indication that for at least that particular month, campus administrators were able to push administrivia to the side and get out to where the action is, classrooms. And the more time administrators spend close to the action, the more responsive they become to actual student and teacher need. 

So here is the roll call of PowerWalks Hero Schools for the 2011/2012 school year. And your goal for next year?  If you aren’t on the list, get on it.  If you are on the list, get on it more often.

Hero X 8

Bell’s Hill ES

Cottonwood Creek ES

JH Hines ES

Louise Schools

Hero X 7

Brooke Ave ES

North Waco ES

Hero X 6

Alta Vista ES

Crestview ES

Kendrick ES

Ray ES

Waco Alternative School

Hero X 5

Dean Highland ES

Hutto HS

Lake Air IS

McFee ES

Meadowbrook ES

South Waco ES

Tennyson MS

Waco HS

Hero X 4

Afton Oaks

Cedar Ridge ES

Garza County

Granbury

Hays County

Hilcrest ES

Hutto MS 

Marble Falls JH

Provident Heights ES

Hero X 3

Farley MS

Lake Waco ES

Luling ES

Mountainview ES

San Marcos

Hero X 2

Carver Academy MS

Hutto ES

Luling JH

Luling HS

Marlin HS

Oak Meadows ES

Poth Schools

Presidential Meadows ES

Stanfield ES

Sul Ross ES

Hero X 1

Blake Manor ES

Brazos MS

Decker MS

Johnson ES

Manor HS

Marlin ES

Rockdale

University HS

University MS

Viking Hills ES

Congratulations to each school on the list.  Continue the great work. 

Think. Work. Achieve.

Your turn...

LYS is currently conducting a Principal Search.  For more information, click on the link. http://tinyurl.com/LYSSearch

• 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/Fundamental5
• 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)

PowerWalks Hero Schools (May 2012)

As is now a LYS Nation tradition, we will take time to tip our caps to the campuses that are taking the most important step in creating and maintaining an action oriented professional learning community.  These are the campuses that have conducted an extraordinary number of formative classroom observations in a given month.  Due to state-wide testing and typical end of the school year events, for the month of May the cutoff numbers were as follows:

Big Schools – 150 PowerWalks Observations

Medium Sized Schools – 100 PowerWalks Observations

Small Schools – 75 PowerWalks Observations

Very Small Schools – 40 PowerWalks Observations.

So without further adieu, here are your thirteen PowerWalks Hero Schools for the Month of May.  Congratulations!!!

(#) = Number of Months in a Row

Elementary Schools	Junior High and Middle Schools	Alternative Schools	Combined Campuses	High Schools
Cottonwood Creek ES (HISD) (8)	Carver Academy MS (WISD)	Hays County (JWJPCS) (2)	Louise Schools (LISD) (8)
Ray ES (HISD)	Tennyson MS (WISD) (2)
Bell’s Hill ES (WISD) (8)
Brooke Ave ES (WISD) (4)
JH Hines ES (WISD) (8)
Meadowbrook ES (WISD) (2)
Mountainview ES (WISD)
Provident Heights ES (WISD) (2)
South Waco ES (WISD) (4)

Think. Work. Achieve.

Your turn...

LYS is currently conducting a Principal Search.  For more information, click on the link. http://tinyurl.com/LYSSearch

• 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/Fundamental5
• 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 27, 2012

I have three figures for you to consider, 59%, 66%, and 65%.

Any idea what those numbers represent?  I’ll share. In a survey (Speak Up 2011) of over 410,000 students, parents and educators 59% of high school students reported that they want to use their personal mobile devices (bootleg technology) in classrooms. 66% of parents surveyed replied that not only do they want their children to be able to use mobile devices (bootleg technology) but would willingly purchase them in support of enhanced learning. So far, so good.

Now, for the sticky wicket. 65% of school principals report that the student use of personal mobile devices (bootleg technology) will not be allowed on their campuses in the upcoming year.  The availability of the tools is quickly reaching a saturation point; our communities are open to their use in instruction; all that is needed is a leadership and a plan.  And “No” is not a plan.

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 27, 2012.

1. LYSer, Dr. Christy Hansen, is the new Executive Director of Secondary Schools in Tyler ISD! Who will be next?

2. Happy Friday LYS Nation! Thanks for teaching the Hutto MS Hippos the Fundamental 5 to make our classrooms come alive. (By @6thgradersrule)

3. When people say class size doesn't matter, they are talking about other people's children. (By @joe_bower)

4. Voter turnout for the Texas Primary was about 10%. That means if you voted, your vote counted 10 times. Your vote matters - a lot!

5. I voted for pro-public education candidates and against anti-public education candidates. Feels good!

6. My school is a polling site and has seen just over 70 voters today. The site serves 6 precincts. Wow. (By @DrJerryRBurkett)

7. The school funding issue impacts every educator in Texas. Yet we had 10% voter turnout. As a profession, is that policy agreement, ignorance or apathy?

8. (In response to the suggestion that teachers don’t vote because they are busy) That is a weak excuse. 1 - We have early voting. 2 - We are in crisis. 3. We're supposed to be the critical element of democracy.

9. About to meet with a group of professors at UH. They are considering studying the ongoing measurable effect LYS support has on campus and student performance.

10. Just approved the final proof of my latest book, Look at Me: A Cautionary School Leadership Tale. Will be available next week on Amazon!

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)