Top LYS Tweets From the Week of May 4, 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 May 4, 2014.

1. Critical Writing and Purposeful Talk should be in every literacy classroom! (By @tra_hall)

2. Ideas are great but implementation is everything.  Decisiveness and action build confidence and momentum. Even if it is only a 70% solution. (By @TinneyTroy)

3. If retention is what is best for the student, why will there so few 19 and 20 year old students crossing the stage at the end of May? (By @LYSNation)

4. Bottom Line: Students should be learning every day they are required to be at school. If not, then what's the point of them being there? (By @BluntEducator)

5. Requiring kids read texts beyond their instructional level won't help them become independent readers. It will help them become frustrated. (By @KyleneBeers)

6. Teacher decisions in regards to environment can accelerate student achievement. (By @CabidaCain)

7. A culture that encourages questions is a culture that encourages learning. (By @Doughney)

8. At school, make the decision that is best for kids. If adults don't like it, they STILL get paid. (By @LYSNation)

9. Today's Quote:  “The simple truth is that nine-tenths of education is encouragement.” (By @DrRichAllen)

10. The Fundamental 5 (Cain & Laird) has now sold more than 57,000 copies!! Thank you, LYS Nation!!! (By @LYSNation)

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/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) 
• 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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