Top LYS Tweets From the Week of August 16, 2015

If you are not following @LYSNation on Twitter, then you missed the Top 10 LYS Tweets from the week of August 16, 2015 when they were first posted.  And if you are on Twitter, you might want to check out the Tweeters who made this week’s list.

1. The time is always right to do what is right. (By @CoachKWisdom)

2. "Upper levels of cognition have almost nothing to do with us [teachers] and almost everything to do with them [students.]" (By @SISDSocStu_CI)

3. People always move towards someone who increases them and away from anyone who decreases them. (By @blitzkrieg607)

4. If you don't expect yourself to accomplish great things then it's likely you won't. (By @LeadToday)

5. If you won't make enemies with adults because you're fighting for kids to have access to a great education, you have no real fight in you. Go away. (By @DrStevePerry)

6. Love kids first. Hassling over a pencil is not worth destroying relationships. Just give them one. (By @alicekeeler)

7. Teacher practice is the leading indicator, student performance is the lagging indicator.  Improve teacher craft, increase student success. (By @DrMetz_MJH)

8. Beginning to realize a profound vision can't be communicated. It must be modeled and walked before it can be learned. (By @txschoolsiupe)

9. Today we are awash in pessimism. But history suggests that it’s the optimists who have tended to be right. (By @FareedZakaria)

10. If you ever reach a point where you don't think it's awesome that you get to go to school and teach kids, call a sub immediately. For real. (By @BluntEducator)

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