Top LYS Tweets From the Week of April 13, 2014

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 April 13, 2014.

1. The best part of education starts and ends with the students. (By @montelongo_john)

2. Confidence comes from being prepared. (By @CoachKWisdom)

3. Today's Quote:  "In education, positive thinking alone gets nothing done - but it's a better starting point than negative thinking." (By @DrRichAllen)

4. Leadership is the key to school success. And failure. And mediocrity. (By @Snowmanlearning)

5. Accountability systems in place across the country put an undue burden on the teachers of academically fragile students. (By @LYSNation)

6. It is a lot easier to criticize a leader than it is to be one. (By @ToddWhitaker)

7. Teachers in Finland must score in top 10% of their class in order to be accepted into teaching college. Job is much more respected. (By @JonRysewyk)

8. Confusing: Teachers want to know all details and why we do what we do, yet resist doing the same for kids about what they are learning. (By @CabidaCain)

9. A comfortable, happy, inadequately educated childhood leads to a stressful, comfortless adulthood. (By @LYSNation)

10. Being a leader means you have to have more conviction than anyone around you about where you're going. (My @MySOdotCom)

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