PowerWalks Hurricane Relief Challenge - 10/6/17 Update

To assist schools in Florida, Puerto Rico, and Texas dealing with the aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria for every PowerWalks classroom observation conducted between October 1, 2017 and October 31, 2017, Lead Your School will donate 5¢.

As of today, there have been 9,269 PowerWalks completed. This means that the current donation total stands at $463.45.

Additionally, to increase the donation total, on the LYS Store Site there are Hurricane Relief Bag Tags and T-shirts.

LYS Nation, keep stepping up!

Visit Classrooms – Rebuild Schools

Legendary Leadership Badge (September 2017)

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 have already earned the Legendary Leadership Badge for the 2017/2018 school year (as of 9/30/17).

One Legendary Leadership Badge

Krystle Breden (GPISD): September

Derrick Brown (SISD): September

Kenneth Bryant (GPISD): September

Shon Joseph (LISD): September

Chris Viator (LPISD): September

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 
• Upcoming Conference Presentations: The Fundamental 5 National Summit (Keynote) 
• Now at the Apple App Store: Fun 5 Timer (Fundamental 5 Delivery Tool); PowerWalks CLC (Networked Formative Observation Tool) 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook

PowerWalks Hero Schools (September 2017)

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.  September was our Rebuild Aransas County Independent School District (Rockport, Texas) Challenge so the targets were aggressive

The September Rebuild Aransas County ISD (Rockport, Texas) Targets

High Schools – 500 PowerWalks Observations

Middle Schools / Junior High Schools – 400 PowerWalks Observations

Elementary / Intermediate / Combined Campuses – 300 PowerWalks Observations

Alternative Schools – 100 PowerWalks Observations.

Since the need is great, we are extending our Hurricane Relief Challenge through October 31, 2017. Which means that we are ramping up the Hero Targets for October.

Your October Hurricane Relief Targets

High Schools – 575 PowerWalks Observations

Middle Schools / Junior High Schools – 450 PowerWalks Observations

Elementary / Intermediate / Combined Campuses – 325 PowerWalks Observations

Alternative Schools – 115 PowerWalks Observations.

LYS Nation, keep stepping up!

Now without further ado, here are your thirty-one PowerWalks Hero Schools for the month of September 2017.  Congratulations!!!

Elementary Schools & Combined Campuses	Middle Schools & Junior High Schools	Alternative Schools	High Schools
Southside Primary School (CISD) - 579	Cunningham MS (GPISD) - 904		North Shore Senior HS (GPISD) – 1,690
Northside ES (CISD) - 480	Robertson MS (LISD) - 796		Socorro HS (SISD) – 1,423
Eastside ES (CISD) - 469	La Porte JH (LPISD) - 766		Galena Park HS (GPISD) – 1,388
Rawlins ES (CCSD1) - 457	Crosby MS (JCPS) - 750		Valley HS (JCPS) - 986
Cane Run ES (JCPS) - 455	Farnsley MS (JCPS) - 665		Lancaster HS (LISD) - 842
Duryea ES (CFISD) - 384	Cleveland MS (CISD) - 599		Pleasure Ridge Park HS (JCPS) - 817
Medora ES (JCPS) - 381	North Shore MS (GPISD) - 565		Iroquois HS (JCPS) - 615
Crums Lane ES (JCPS) - 366	Johnson Traditional MS (JCPS) - 546		Granbury HS (GISD) - 591
Dublin ES (DISD) - 308	Lomax JH (LPISD) - 489		San Marcos HS (SMCISD) - 581
	Olmstead Academy South (JCPS) - 479		Fairdale HS (JCPS) - 556
	Conway MS (JCPS) - 400		Western HS (JCPS) - 544

Think. Work. Achieve.

Your turn...

Click the image to buy a Hurricane Relief Bag Tag

Click the image to buy a Hurricane Relief T-Shirt

• 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 
• Upcoming Conference Presentations: The Fundamental 5 National Summit (Keynote) 
• Now at the Apple App Store: Fun 5 Timer (Fundamental 5 Delivery Tool); PowerWalks CLC (Networked Formative Observation Tool) 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook