March For a Cure - March 10, 2013 Update

March for a Cure? Yes, MARCH FOR A CURE! 

For every PowerWalks Classroom Observation conducted in the month of March, LYS will donate 5¢ to the American Cancer Society. 

Every PowerWalks Observer who conducts 200 classrooms observations between the dates of February 22, 2016 and March 31, 2016 gets a March for a Cure T-shirt.

Visit Classrooms - Beat Cancer!

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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

Now at the Apple App Store: Fun 5 Timer (Fundamental 5 Delivery Tool); PowerWalks CLC (Networked Formative Observation Tool)

Upcoming Presentations: Texas Association of Secondary School Principals Conference (Multiple Presentations); Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association Conference (Multiple Presentations); LYS / TASSP Advanced Leadership Academy (Keynote)

Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook

The Camouflaged Voucher Truth

The Camouflaged Voucher Truth: As mentioned in the previous post, “The Big Voucher Lie,” we have school choice. What we don’t have are SUBSIDIES for those who choose to pursue a private education option for their children.

So who are the primary consumers of private school options?

If you guessed upper middle class and affluent families, you would be correct. So the Camouflaged Voucher Truth is that the proponents of voucher are actually advocating for new subsidies and additional tax benefits for the RICH.

Now I’m just a simple educator, naive in the ways of the World.  So would someone please explain to me how defunding public education for the sole purpose of providing additional subsidies and tax benefits for the RICH is good public policy?

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 
• Now at the Apple App Store: Fun 5 Timer (Fundamental 5 Delivery Tool); PowerWalks CLC (Networked Formative Observation Tool) 
• Upcoming Presentations: Texas Association of Secondary School Principals Conference (Multiple Presentations); Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association Conference (Multiple Presentations); LYS / TASSP Advanced Leadership Academy (Keynote) 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook

The Big Voucher Lie

The Big Voucher Lie: We need to create, provide and protect the rights of parents to have school choice. 

This is not only a lie... it is a DAMN lie. 

We have school choice.  In Texas, where I reside, every parent has the ability to enroll his or her child in...

1. Essentially any traditional public school that has space.

2. Any charter school or public magnet school where the child meets the school’s entrance requirements.

3. Any private school where the child meets the entrance requirements and the parent can afford the tuition.

4. Their own home school program, where they can actually CHOOSE to NOT educate their child.

In spite of what the pro-choice proponents would like you to believe, this parent educational setting choice is NOT under attack.  So what we have here is yet another example of “Liars, Damn Liars, and Politicians.”

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 
• Now at the Apple App Store: Fun 5 Timer (Fundamental 5 Delivery Tool); PowerWalks CLC (Networked Formative Observation Tool) 
• Upcoming Presentations: Texas Association of Secondary School Principals Conference (Multiple Presentations); Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association Conference (Multiple Presentations); LYS / TASSP Advanced Leadership Academy (Keynote) 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook

The Principal Platinum Standard

“Nationally, I’m known as E. Don.”

When I heard that comment twelve years ago that was when I realized that that my friend and mentor in my little world, also operated on a much grander scale.

Don Brown is an anomaly. Has was principal in an era when rubric for the exceptional principal was fairly cut and dried, all one had to do was, in order, keep:

• The teachers happy.
• The Superintendent happy.
• The parents happy.
• The building clean.
• The students occupied and behaved.

That wasn’t enough for Don. So he did more. He is:

• One of the Godfathers of the Trimester Schedule.
• One of the Godfathers of the PLC process.
• One of the Godfathers of the All Students Continue Their Education After High School movement.
• The architect of Breaking Ranks. 

That wasn’t enough for Don. So he did more. He was:

• The President of the Texas Association of Secondary School Principals
• The President of the National Association of Secondary School Principals
• A Board Member of the International Confederation of Principals

Then Don retired, but didn’t quit. He became one of the:

• Godfathers of the Online Professional Development movement.
• Godfathers of the EFFECTIVE (not political) School Turnaround Process.
• Godfathers of the Principal Coaching movement.
• Founders of Lead Your School.

As the Lead Your School Principal Emeritus, Don continues to coach principals and train teachers across the country, every week. In his 70’s, he has more energy and passion for schools than a man ½ his age.  We at Lead Your School are not the only ones who recognize and appreciate his continued contributions to the profession. Just last week, at a complete surprise to him, E. Don Brown was named....

The Principal Emeritus of the National Association of Secondary School Principals.

Don Brown, he’s kind of a big deal...

Congratulations!!!

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 
• Now at the Apple App Store: Fun 5 Timer (Fundamental 5 Delivery Tool); PowerWalks CLC (Networked Formative Observation Tool) 
• Upcoming Presentations: Texas Association of Secondary School Principals Conference (Multiple Presentations); Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association Conference (Multiple Presentations); LYS / TASSP Advanced Leadership Academy (Keynote) 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook

Top LYS Tweets From the Week of February 28, 2016

If you are not following @LYSNation on Twitter, then you missed the Top 10 LYS Tweets from the week of February 28, 2016 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. I will vote in support of public education and the 5 million Texas school children. I am committed to vote - I am a Texas educator. (By @texasisd)

2. ...an imperfect plan implemented immediately and violently will always succeed better than a perfect plan. - General George S. Patton (By @famousquotenet)

3. “Great teachers know that words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” (By @DrRichAllen)

4. Dialogue is a conversation where both brains matter. (By @tskuhn)

5. Inclusion is not a place, it is a service. (By @Mr_J_AP_WISD)

6. Great leaders matter even in schools with already sophisticated teachers! The system does not work without leadership and vision! (By @InstructionalLe)

7. The happiest people don't have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything they have. (By @LifeLimits)

8. If you never make mistakes then you are not on the frontier of discovery, for there is where mistakes are made all the time. (By @neiltyson)

9. I have figured out the employee dress code at the Apple Store.

1. Where whatever you want; 2. And a red t-shirt. (By @LYSNation)

10. Just want all to know what my Dad (Bum Phillips) always believed - You can have fun and win. (By @sonofbum)

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 
• Now at the Apple App Store: Fun 5 Timer (Fundamental 5 Delivery Tool); PowerWalks CLC (Networked Formative Observation Tool) 
• Upcoming Presentations: Texas Association of Secondary School Principals Conference (Multiple Presentations); Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association Conference (Multiple Presentations); LYS / TASSP Advanced Leadership Academy (Keynote) 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook