Legendary Leadership Badge (May 2016)

There are those that don’t understand the power of reflective observation.  They mistakenly believe that there is nothing to learn after a few cursory visits to a classroom.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  In fact, the most important key to building insight and deeper understanding about teaching and learning is to engage in a steady volume of daily classroom observation.  What we have learned over the past ten years is that after about every 300 classroom observations, the observer will notice, discern, and/or learn something new... something that was previously hidden. It is the “Eureka” moment, and there is nothing else like it in instructional leadership.

In this pursuit, there is the PowerWalks Legendary Leadership Badge that is earned every 300^th PowerWalks Observation. The following instructional leaders earned the Legendary Leadership Badge for the 2015/2016 school year. Congratulations!

Three Badges

Denise Poland: December 2015; February 2016; May 2016

Glenn Barnes:  November 2015; January 2016; April 2016

Van LeJeune: October 2015; January 2016; April 2016

Shelia Ochoa: December 2015; March 2016; April 2016

Steve Sherrouse: October 2015; March 2016; April 2016

Janie Snyder: November 2015; December 2015; April 2016

Nassrin Spencer: October 2015; January 2016; April 2016

Cody White: December 2015; February 2016; April 2016

Pattie Myers: October 2015; December 2015; March 2016

Two Badges

Jeff Groseclose: February 2016; May 2016

Michael Hannum: February 2016; May 2016

Grezelda Ligons: February 2016; May 2016

Rebecca Osborne: April 2016; May 2016

Pete Armstrong: December 2015; April 2016

Teresa Bodey: January 2016; April 2016

Charlotte Goudeau: December 2015; April 2016

Shirley Jenkins: November 2015; April 2016

Sheila Stephens: November 2015; April 2016

Tamika Washington: December 2015; April 2016

Shannon Clancy: December 2015; March 2016

Edward Husk: October 2015: March 2016

Karen Ivy: November 2015; March 2016

Robin Rice: February 2016; March 2016

Christina Spears: December 2015; March 2016

Wes Brown: October 2015; February 2016

Todd Durham: October 2015; January 2016

One Badge

Cedric Ivie: May 2016

Roshon Jackson: May 2016

Tom Jaggard: May 2016

Amber Reinecke: May 2016

Kathy Stephenson: May 2016

Robert Urbanowiez: May 2016

Shele Coburn: April 2016

Larry Crabb: April 2016

Lindsey Pless: April 2016

Ariel Aleman: March 2016

Joan Alvey: March 2016

Matt Ammerman: March 2016

Ashley Brauchi: March 2016

Norma Briseno: March 2016

Marianne Buentello: March 2016

Carla Butler: March 2016

DeDe Conaway: March 2016

Linda Cox: March 2016

Tonia Cummings: March 2016

Rocky Ford: March 2016

Clinton Grange: March 2016

Valerie Hammit: March 2016

Karen Hart: March 2016

Emily Laurence: March 2016

Scott Rogers: March 2016

Scott Schneider: March 2016

Elizabeth Scott: March 2016

Mindy Sides: March 2016

Jennifer Soileau: March 2016

Fred Steubing: March 2016

Twyla Thomas: March 2016

Monica Waggoner: March 2016

Sandy Williamson: March 2016

Marissa Bell: February 2016

Vernon Berckmoes: February 2016

Denise Bird: February 2016

Sean Cain: February 2016

Marisol Candelaria: February 2016

Michael Cano: February 2016

Stella Chen: February 2016

Michael Clifton: February 2016

Tonia Cummings: February 2016

Mary Giles: February 2016

Brandon Harris: February 2016

Julie Hinson: February 2016

Kathy Horvath: February 2016

Derieco Irvin: February 2016

Chris Johnstone: February 2016

David Knobloch: February 2016

Mike Laird: February 2016

Steve Lucas: February 2016

Drew McConnaughhay: February 2016

Tania Merik: February 2016

Keith Owen: February 2016

Regina Raiborn: February 2016

James Russell: February 2016

Janie Snyder: February 2016

Sherrie Tolbert: February 2016

Rose Tran: February 2016

Lisa Watson: February 2016

Brad Weston: February 2016

George Wollenzien: February 2016

Lynn Anderson: January 2016

Denise Collins: January 2016

Francisco Delgado: January 2016

Demetrio Garcia: January 2016

Donny Hearn: January 2016

Paige Johnson: January 2016

Daniel Kotara: January 2016

Chesta Schneider: January 2016

Lisa Weaver: January 2016

Anna Bryant: December 2015

Shele Coburn: December 2015

LuJean Daniel: December 2015

GayLynn Holt: December 2015

Gail Johnson: December 2015

Stephen McCanless: December 2015

Kimberly McKnight: December 2015

Edna O’Bryant: December 2015

Dawn O’Connor: December 2015

Rebecca Smith: December 2015

Marti Turner: December 2015

Pamela Williams: December 2015

Esther Boateng: November 2015

Ana Lopez: November 2015

Erica Moody: November 2015

Jeffrey Smith: November 2015

Sandra Wilson: November 2015

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

PowerWalks Hero Schools (May 2016)

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 in a given month.  For the month of May the PowerWalks Hero School Targets were as follows:

May Hero School Targets

High Schools – 130 PowerWalks Observations

Middle Schools / Junior High Schools – 115 PowerWalks Observations

Elementary / Intermediate / Combined Campuses – 90 PowerWalks Observations

Alternative Schools – 40 PowerWalks Observations

In May all of the schools using the PowerWalks Instructional Observation System conducted a total of 3,524 classroom observations. A commendable job, LYS Nation! Now, without further ado, here are your final twelve PowerWalks Hero Schools for the 2015/2016 school year.  Congratulations!!!

Elementary Schools & Combined Campuses (8 Heroes)	Middle Schools & Junior High Schools (3 Heroes)	Alternative Schools	High Schools (1 Hero)
Live Oak Learning Center (ACISD) - 241	Ector MS (ECISD) - 277		Cleveland HS (CISD) – 179
Southside PS (CISD) - 205	Cleveland MS (CISD) - 230
Little Bay Primary School (ACISD) - 184	Marlin MS (MISD) - 116
Duryea ES (CFISD) - 134
Poteet ES/IS (PISD) - 133
Fulton Learning Center (ACISD) - 122
Gateway ES (BISD) - 90
Northside ES (CISD) - 90

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 May 22, 2016

If you are not following @LYSNation on Twitter, then you missed the Top 10 LYS Tweets from the week of May 22, 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. Congratulations to LYSer, Robert Webb! He is the new principal of Ballinger High School!! Who will be next? (By @LYSNation)

2. “Teach the right thing. Teach the right thing better. Teach the right thing, better, longer.” (By @DrMetz_MHS)

3. Schools across the country are coasting to the end of the year. This is neither a student nor teacher issue. This is a leadership issue. (By @LYSNation)

4. The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice. – Bill Walsh (By @CoachMotto)

5. I am still hopeful our Legislators will spend as much time talking funding for public schools as they do talking bathrooms in underfunded schools. (By @TroyMooney)

6. Coaching helps craft. (By @TinneyTroy)  

7. Don't waste words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all. (By @mindsetdev)

8. If you change nothing, nothing will change. (By @WiseWilbert)

9. The secondary version of the "Crayola Curriculum" is the "Crossword Curriculum." The instructional equivalent to cotton candy. (By @LYSNation)

10. Stop doing things that aren't working. (By @Leadershipfreak)

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