Your 2013/2014 PowerWalks Hero Schools!

In furtherance of a LYS Nation tradition, we will take this time to tip our caps to the campuses that have embraced 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 during a school year. This past year there was a total of 81,584 PowerWalks completed on campuses across the country and any school that was able to complete more that 700 observations demonstrated noticeable resolve to support teachers and improve student outcomes.

Now without further ado, here are your thirty-nine PowerWalks Hero Schools for the 2013/2014 school year. Congratulations!!!

Elementary Schools	Junior High and Middle Schools	Alternative Schools	Combined Campuses	High Schools
McFee ES (CFISD: mid-sized school) – 4,367	Chavez MS (WISD: mid-sized school) – 4,072	San Marcos (JWJPCS: very small school) – 1,059	Louise Schools (LISD: small school) – 1,239	Fairdale HS (JCPS: big school) – 3,979
Bell’s Hill ES (WISD: small school) – 4,303	Tennyson MS (WISD: mid-sized school) – 2,936			Hutto HS (HISD: big school) – 3,529
Frazier ES (CFISD: mid-sized school) – 2,684	Carver MS (WISD: mid-sized school) – 2,242			Mayde Creek HS (KISD: big school) – 2,789
JH Hines ES (WISD: small school) – 2,072	Big Spring JH (BSISD: mid-sized school) – 1,726			University HS (WISD: big school) – 2,629
Dean Highland ES (WISD: small school) – 1,970	Kerr MS (BISD: mid-sized school) - 934			Kennedale HS (KISD: mid-sized school) – 2,053
Marlin ES (MISD: very small school) – 1,870	Indian Spring MS (WISD: mid-sized school) – 900			Waco HS (WISD: big school) – 1,360
West Ave ES (WISD: small school) – 1,755	Marlin MS (MISD: very small school) - 899			Marshall HS (MISD: big school) – 1,108
Crestview ES (WISD: small school) – 1,681	Hutto MS (HISD: mid-sized school) – 819			Morton Ranch HS (KISD: big school) – 1,081
Ray ES (HISD: small school) – 1,516	Spring Branch MS (CISD: mid-sized School) – 739			Saginaw HS (EMSISD: big school) – 1,021
Dublin ES (DISD: very small school) – 1,441				Canyon Lake HS (CISD: big school) – 954
Rennell ES (CFISD: mid-sized school) – 1,420				Smithson Valley HS (CISD: big school) – 750
Cottonwood Creek ES (HISD: small school) – 1,095
Hutto ES (HISD: small school) – 1,080
Washington ES (BSISD: small school) – 906
Kendrick ES (WISD: small school) - 807
Brook Ave ES (WISD: small school) - 799
Goliad ES (BSISD: small school) – 703

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: NAESP National Conference; Kentucky Association of School Administrators Leadership Institute; The Fundamental 5 National Summit (Keynote Presentation) 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook

A Reader Writes... Top Tweet List

In response to the 6/16/14 post, “Top LYS Tweets From theWeek of June 8, 2014,” a LYS Principal writes:

SC,

Great set of tweets! I often send your list to my staff. They may not all follow the blog but I think all can benefit from your top list of tweets. I also print them out and place on my board next to my door for all to read!

SC Response

Thank you! And so very old school and new school at the same time. I remember reading as much as I could when I was a principal.  Both for me and to find the articles that I thought my staff should be aware of.  When I found something, I would copy it and place it in their box.  I figured even if they didn’t read the whole article, at least they would know that I valued professional reading and by the topics I shared know what I thought was important for the campus.  Why copies in the mail box? Because at the campus level there were no scanners, few online articles and spotty e-mail coverage back in the day.

I’m not surprised that you do the same thing for your staff (with the modern additions of blogs, Twitter, Pintrest, etc.).  But I am honored that you find the topics I think are important are also useful for the staff at one of the top public schools in the country.

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: NAESP National Conference; Kentucky Association of School Administrators Leadership Institute; The Fundamental 5 National Summit (Keynote Presentation) 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook

Top LYS Tweets From the Week of June 22, 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 June 22, 2014.

1. Write everyday. Nothing is better for processing your thinking. (By @DrJerryRBurkett)

2. Today's Quote:  "True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance." (By @DrRichAllen)

3. Speak up for the teaching profession because I can promise someone is speaking against it. (By @BluntEducator)

4. Teaching is arguably the most complex and most essential profession in the world. (By @PrincipalFHS)

5. What do your grades measure: purely objective mastery or something else? Anything beyond objective mastery is misleading and useless for data.  (By @JasonJj7)

6. Everything gets better as you purposefully spend more time in the Power Zone! (By @LYSNation)

7. Many mission and vision statements are vague and general. I guess that makes it easy to not live up to high expectations. (By @woscholar)

8. "People who get things done, are not always liked." (By @ptarkkonen)

9. Expect opposition to your dream. Every nitpicker who doesn’t have a dream will oppose yours. (@LollyDaskal)

10. Onward and upward, The Fundamental 5 (Cain & Laird) just passed 60,000 copies sold! 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: NAESP National Conference; The Fundamental 5 National Summit (Keynote Presentation) 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook