Top LYS Tweets From the Week of March 30, 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 March 30, 2014.

1. Education's False Mission: Sort students into groups of college material, not college material, and ditch diggers at the earliest age possible. (By @LYSNation)

2. The Mission of the Educator: Prepare our students for the greatest range of positive outcomes. (By @LYSNation)

3. Being principal of a school is more than being principal at school. It is also being the principal while at the grocery, restaurant, church... (By @BestJobinPlatte)

4. What gets measured is what gets done on a campus. This is the power in PowerWalks. Success does not happen by accident. (By @blitzkrieg607)

5. Our Schools Suffer While Texans Brag About Low Taxes (By @texasisd)

6. "Favorites" in competition quit more often than underdogs. Rather than losing, they prefer to take themselves out. (By @anniemurphypaul)

7. Write down short, "30 second reviews" after learning new stuff to really cement it in your memory. (By @lifehacker)

8. Avoiding best instructional practice increases your stress level and decreases the opportunities of your students. (By @LYSNation)

9. Schools should have charging stations like airports and other large waiting areas. It's time. (By @Dwight_Carter)

10. The Fundamental 5 (Cain & Laird) just shot past 54,000 copies sold! Thank you, LYS Nation!! (By @LYSNation)

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• 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 
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• 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) 
• Upcoming Presentations: TASSP Summer Conference (Multiple Presentations); Texas ASCD Summer Conference; ESC 14 Sumer Conference (Keynote Presentation); ESC 11 Summer Conference (Keynote Presentation); NEASP National Conference; The Fundamental 5 National Summit (Keynote Presentation) 
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