Rebuild Rockport (ACISD) Schools Update - 9/22/17

The Rockport, Texas area and Aransas County Independent School District bore the full force and fury of Hurricane Harvey.  Their buildings were battered but their spirit remains intact. 

To assist ACISD in their rebuilding process, for every PowerWalks classroom observation conducted between August 25, 2017 and September 30, 2017, Lead Your School will donate 5¢.

As of today, there have been 31,519 PowerWalks completed. This means that the current donation total stands at $1,575.95.

LYS Nation, there is still one week remaining in September, keep stepping up!

Top LYS Tweets from the Week of September 10, 2017

If you are not following @LYSNation on Twitter, then you missed the Top 10 LYS Tweets from the week of September 10, 2017 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. Jerry Burkett!!! He is the new Assistant Dean of the UNT-Dallas School of Education! Who will be next? (By @LYSNation)

2. If you aren't willing to accept responsibility, if you refuse to allow others to hold you accountable... You will not improve –Phil Beckner (By @DrMetz_MHS)

3. Basically the Texas Senate said if you're not going to give us vouchers, we're not going to give you funding. Teachers – it’s time to replace them. (By @Pastors4txkids)

4. As Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and his Texas Senate Republicans tell you how much they love Texas public schools, note that they ZEROED out public education funding in their 2017 budget. (By @Pastors4txkids)

5. Studying is more effective when it’s done in 45-minute segments instead of longer ones. (By @WSJ)

6. Let's put to bed this blather about teachers getting rich off their pensions. It's disrespectful and isn't supported by data. (By @jmnemes)

7. "Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard." — Guy Kawasaki (By @successmagazine)

8. Vouchers and tax breaks for those who send their kids to private academies and for-profit charter schools guts funding for public schools. (By @Sturm4Congress)

9. Taking legal protections away from 800,000 young people raised in this country is absolutely counter to what we stand for as a nation. (By @SenSanders)

10. Lord, teach us to contemplate you in the beauty of creation and reawaken our gratitude and sense of responsibility. (By @Pontifex)

Think. Work. Achieve.

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5 Reasons to Attend The Fundamental 5 National Summit (November 5th and 6th)

1. This is a K-12 practitioner’s conference.

2. The presenters are from real schools using successfully using The Fundamental 5 every day.

3. You will get to network with some of the best educators from across the country.

4. The average November temperature in Austin is 73 degrees.

5. The keynote speaker is Sean Cain (I hear he is pretty good), co-author of The Fundamental 5 and a nationally recognized school improvement expert.