Top LYS Tweets From the Week of October 13, 2013

A number of you in the LYS Nation are now Twitter users.  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 October 13, 2013.

1. Establish an intervention time that keeps kids from being pulled from core instruction. They can't learn what they don't have access to... (By @Snowmanlearning)

2. The instructional goal shouldn't be a beautifully filled-in graphic organizer, but organized thinking. (By @CarolJago)

3. Teachers who don't like technology say, "I can't see what's happening in the back of the room!" I say, "So get up." They look shocked. (By @kevinhoneycutt) 

4. Assessment is not about results, it is about data. (By @RandyMBrown)

5. Every piece of walk-thru data is an extension of student voice telling us if learning is occurring. We should listen. (By @writingtired)

6. Assessment should not be a goal, assessment should be a tool. (By @RandyMBrown)

7. I think the more we focus on the way things 'used to be' the more we miss out on the way things 'can be.' (By @justintarte)

8. Results are about “Why did this happen?” Not about “Why did this happen to me?” (By @RandyMBrown)

9. “No one became a teacher because they loved copying notes off a board.” (BY @thomascmurray)

10. I'm sitting in North Dakota Council of Educational Leaders Conference session and the data expert presenter referenced, The Fundamental 5. (By @Paul777Mary)

Think. Work. Achieve.

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