PowerWalks Hero Schools (April 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.  For the month of April, the PowerWalks Hero School Targets were as follows:

April Hero School Targets

High Schools – 200 PowerWalks Observations

Middle Schools / Junior High Schools – 150 PowerWalks Observations

Elementary / Intermediate / Combined Campuses – 125 PowerWalks Observations

Alternative Schools – 40 PowerWalks Observations

Because of end of course testing in May, we will adjust the bar a little.

March Hero School Targets

High Schools – 190 PowerWalks Observations

Middle Schools / Junior High Schools – 130 PowerWalks Observations

Elementary / Intermediate / Combined Campuses – 115 PowerWalks Observations

Alternative Schools – 30 PowerWalks Observations

In April, all the schools using the PowerWalks Instructional Observation System conducted a total of 15,397 classroom observations. A commendable job, LYS Nation! But now, without further ado, here are your thirty-two PowerWalks Hero Schools for the month of April 2017.  Congratulations!!!

Elementary Schools & Combined Campuses	Middle Schools & Junior High Schools	Alternative Schools	High Schools
Southside PS (CISD) - 296	Cunningham MS (GPISD) - 720		Socorro HS (SISD) – 1,108
Northside ES (CISD) - 246	Galena Park MS (GPISD) - 467		North Shore HS (GPISD) – 1,073
Kermit ES (KISD) - 240	Cobb 6th Grade Campus (GPISD) - 412		Granbury HS (GISD) - 598
McFee ES (CFISD) - 218	Cleveland MS (CISD) - 317		Cleveland HS (CISD) - 416
Bill W. Wright ES (WISD) - 204	North Shore MS (GPISD) - 315		Weatherford HS (ACISD) - 245
M. Robinson ES (CFISD) - 188	Marlin MS (MISD) - 259		Kermit HS (KISD) - 242
Dublin ES (DISD) - 187	Ensor MS (SISD) - 249
Hemmenway ES (CFISD) - 177	Woodland Acres MS (GPISD) - 173
Kenwood ES (JCPS) - 173	Farley MS (HISD) - 167
Eastside ES (CISD) - 166	Serna School (SISD) - 167
McFerran Preparatory Academy (JCPS) - 161	Kermit JH (KISD) - 152
Seguin ES (WISD) - 155
Raymond E. Curtis ES (WISD) - 152
Rawlins ES (CCSD1) - 132
Cottonwood Creek ES (HISD) - 129

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: Texas ASCD Summer Conference, The National Principals Conference; 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

Top LYS Tweets from the Week of April 23, 2017

If you are not following @LYSNation on Twitter, then you missed the Top 10 LYS Tweets from the week of April 23, 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. I've never seen "Free Day Friday" on a good pacing guide. (By @BluntEducator)

2. Pride invites big-headed managers to blame others when things go poorly and honor themselves when things go right. (By @Leadershipfreak)

3. Leadership is not about titles, positions or flow charts; it is about one life influencing another. (By @Amazingigrace)

4. I've written how modern vouchers have roots in resistance to school desegregation. As always, history is instructive as the USDOE pushes them again. (By @nhannahjones)

5. Together, we are galvanizing an unstoppable consensus for the bedrock principle of public education… and against the idiocy of privatizing it. (By @pastors4txkids)

6. If there is “proof” before implementation, then it’s not innovation. Real experiments mean we don’t know the results yet. (By @DouglasReeves)

7. Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. -Andrew V. Mason (By @Leadershipfreak)

8. With school choice vouchers, profiteering schools have the choice-- not the parents. (By @pastors4txkids)

9. Commit or quit! (By @Leadershipfreak)

10. When we have reached the lowest point of our misery and our weakness, the Risen Christ gives us the strength to rise again. (By @Pontifex)

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: Texas ASCD Summer Conference, The National Principals Conference; 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