Friday, September 9, 2016

The LYS / TASSP Leadership Academy

Today is the last day for early registration discounts for the LYS / TASSP Leadership Academy.  Sign up, now!!!






































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: LYS / TASSP Advanced Leadership Academy (Keynote); The 2016 Texas Charter School Conference (Multiple Presentations); The 4th Annual Fundamental 5 National Summit (Keynote) 
  • Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook

Thursday, September 8, 2016

PowerWalks Hero Schools (August 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.  Since this is the beginning of the school year, any campus that conducted more than 25 PowerWalks observation is to be considered a Hero Campus.  Next month, as you can see below, the bar will be raised a little bit higher.

Your September Targets
High Schools – 225 PowerWalks Observations
Middle Schools / Junior High Schools – 175 PowerWalks Observations
Elementary / Intermediate / Combined Campuses – 150 PowerWalks Observations
Alternative Schools – 50 PowerWalks Observations.

Now without further ado, here are your thirty-eight PowerWalks Hero Schools for the month of August 2016.  Congratulations!!!

Elementary Schools & Combined Campuses
Middle Schools & Junior High Schools
Alternative Schools
High Schools
Southside PS (CISD) - 305
Rockport-Fulton MS (ACISD) - 189
Frederick Douglas LC (CISD) - 28
Fairdale HS (JCPS) - 481
Eastside ES (CISD) - 276
Ector MS (ECISD) - 171

The Academy at Shawnee (JCPS) - 263
Live Oak Learning Center (ACISD) - 125
Cleveland MS (CISD) - 130

Cleveland HS (CISD) - 204
Duryea ES (CFISD) - 114
Marlin MS (MISD) - 116

Rockport-Fulton HS (ACISD) - 192
Raymond E. Curtis ES (WISD) - 114
Baker IS (CCPS) - 46

Weatherford HS (WISD) - 86
Fulton Learning Center (ACISD) - 97
Gus Garcia MS (EISD) - 36

Marlin HS (MISD) - 85
Northside ES (CISD) - 93
Kirbyville JH (KCISD) - 34

Globe HS (GUSD) - 80
Marlin ES (MISD) - 91
Big Spring IS (BSISD) - 31

Borger HS (BISD) - 79
Gleason ES (CFISD) - 61


Dublin HS (DISD) - 71
Willbern ES (CFISD) - 60


Sanger HS (SISD) - 62
Dublin ES (DISD) - 55


Iroquois HS (JCPS) - 60
Little Bay Primary Schools (ACISD) - 47


Kirbyville HS (KCISD) - 37
Kerrick ES (JCPS) - 47



Goliad ES (BSISD) – 39



Poteet ES/IS (PISD) - 38



Bill W. Wright ES (WISD) - 36



Little Snake River Valley Schools (CCSD1) - 26




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: LYS / TASSP Advanced Leadership Academy (Keynote); The 2016 Texas Charter School Conference (Multiple Presentations); The 4th Annual Fundamental 5 National Summit (Keynote) 
  • Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

The TASSP / LYS Leadership Academy

The Event So Nice – We’re Doing It Twice!


E. Don Brown
Texas Principal for 30+ years.
Past President of TASSP and NASSP
An Early Pioneer of IB and PLC’s
An Architect of Breaking Ranks
Principal Emeritus for NASSP and Lead Your School
A Mentor to 100’s of schools leaders across the country

o   The Leader as Communicator: A schools leader’s most powerful lever is communication. One of the most influential principals in the past 50 years shares the what, when, how and where’s of the leadership communication and the powerful effect it has on school success.

Sherilynn Cotten
Texas Secondary School Principal (ret)
Early adopter of PLC’s and IB
Recognized school improvement expert
An original LYS Coach

o   Run the Play: The success of your school boils down to your answer to the question, “How confident am I that what is being taught today is what is supposed to be taught to day?” Learn about the understandings, actions, and process that must be in place on your campus to ensure that the right thing is being taught at the right time in every classroom on your campus.

Dr. Darin Jolly
Active Texas Superintendent
A pioneer and leader in the use of Social Media for professional growth.

o   The Leader as Evaluator: The effective formative and summative evaluation of staff is an invaluable tool for every school leader. Yet it is a tool that too many in our profession wield ineffectively. Dr. Darin Jolly will highlight the connection between coaching (formative practice) and evaluating (summative practice) and how the improved use of both transforms school leadership into legacy building.

Fletcher Turcato
Active Wyoming Superintendent           
A Texas secondary school administrator
District is experiencing unprecedented improvements in student performance and graduation rates

o   The Power of Focus: In three years, the second poorest school district in Wyoming has dramatically increased performance for all students and has experienced an unprecedented gain in graduation rates.  Join the Maverick Superintendent of Wyoming, Fletcher Turcato, as he shares how his team harnesses the Power of Focus to improve opportunity and outcomes for each student who walks through their school doors.

Sean Cain
Former State Director of Innovative School Redesign (Texas)
Best-selling education author
Nationally recognized school improvement expert
Chief Idea Officer – Lead Your School

o   Bridging the Gaps: An interactive, planning presentation that walks the participant thru the process of bridging the gaps between knowing and doing, and doing and understanding that prevent schools and educators from meeting their true potential.  At the end of the presentation participants will have created an actionable plan for rapidly increasing staff capacity and school success.

o   The Structure for Success: An interactive presentation that provides participants with an overview of critical tools and processes that schools must have in place in order to leverage brain power and maximize staff success and student performance, at scale. 

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: LYS / TASSP Advanced Leadership Academy (Keynote); The 2016 Texas Charter School Conference (Multiple Presentations); The 4th Annual Fundamental 5 National Summit (Keynote) 
  • Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Top LYS Tweets From the Week of August 28, 2016

If you are not following @LYSNation on Twitter, then you missed the Top 10 LYS Tweets from the week of August 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. Congratulations to LYSer, Dr. Bake Baron! He is the new Superintendent in Runge ISD!! Who will be next? (By @LYSNation)

2. No budget for "making"??? How about using critical writing as the made product? Let the brain push the pencil. (By @drjolly)

3. Adult practice drives student performance. (By @DrMetz_MHS)

4. When a student makes a poor choice (which we all do), it's the conversation, not the consequence, which makes all the difference. (By @justintarte)

5. If you aren't doing what works for your students, you're wasting your time and theirs. (By @vhsaldana)

6. I've never met an effective leader who dwells on their past ~ their thoughts and conversation are always moving forward. (By @SteveGutzler)

7. I just saw a unicorn. The credit recovery teacher was circulating thru the classroom, monitoring student progress and providing support!!! (By @LYSNation)

8. Texas Senate Education Committee members, if you don't believe in education for all Texas students paid for by the public, then have the honesty to resign. (By @pastors4txkids)

9. Texas State Senator Don Huffines, @DonHuffines, vows to push for an education savings account program, which hurts Texas public schools. (By @pastors4txkids)

10. Some things take time. Stay patient and stay positive, things will get better. (By @WiseWilbert)

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: LYS / TASSP Advanced Leadership Academy (Keynote); The 2016 Texas Charter School Conference (Multiple Presentations); The 4th Annual Fundamental 5 National Summit (Keynote) 
  • Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook