PowerWalks Hero Schools (May 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 May, the PowerWalks Hero School Targets were as follows:

May 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 May, all the schools using the PowerWalks Instructional Observation System conducted a total of 5,030 observations. A commendable job, LYS Nation! But now, without further ado, here are your eight PowerWalks Hero Schools for the month of May 2017.  Congratulations!!!

Elementary Schools & Combined Campuses	Middle Schools & Junior High Schools	Alternative Schools	High Schools
Hemmenway ES (CFISD) - 328	Cleveland MS (CISD) - 257		Socorro HS (SISD) – 770
Southside PS (CISD) - 223	Galena Park MS (GPISD) - 147
Rawlins ES (CCSD1) - 127	Serna School (SISD) - 137
	Marlin MS (MISD) - 132

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, TASSP Summer Conference, Virginia Middle and High School Principals 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 May 28, 2017

If you are not following @LYSNation on Twitter, then you missed the Top 10 LYS Tweets from the week of May 28, 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. Public education is THE most important charge the legislature has. Members who voted against it this session MUST be held accountable. (By @pastors4txkids)

2. We are in a pitched battle for the public education in Texas against Senate leadership that no longer believes in it. (By @pastors4txkids)

3. A simple act of caring creates an endless ripple. –Unknown (By @clwilkens)

4. If you aren’t feeling resistance, you’re doing meaningless busy work. (By @Leadershipfreak)

5. The Fundamental 5 (Cain & Laird) is a great book...simple and practical. (By @JV_lack)

6. This year I did 500+ classroom observations (PowerWalks)! My administration team did almost 4,000. (By @tra_hall)

7. Texas Republicans couldn't get a voucher program, so they killed the entire school finance bill. (By @EdEspinoza)

8. School finance is dead. Dan Patrick administered the poison. (By @TXParentPAC)

9. Do not let Texas Senate members who support vouchers tell you they support public education. They do not. Time to elect a Senate that does. (By @pastors4txkids)

10. At age 18, Alexander Hamilton wrote a 75-page pamphlet that laid out the philosophical doctrine of the Revolution. At 49, I wrote this tweet. (By @LYSNation)

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, TASSP Summer Conference, Virginia Middle and High School Principals 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

An Unexpected Lesson Learned

Recently, two former school principals were witnesses to a deadly accident. Well, not exactly witnesses.  Let me explain.

First, the two former principals were in a public (not a school) venue when they heard a commotion in an area where they knew there were children. Both principals, without looking at the other, ran towards the commotion, when at the time, the crowds were running away from the area.

When they got to the crisis area, the people who remained were figuratively frozen.  The two principals took positions on opposite sides of the event and started ordering people to exit the area, physically pulling people towards safety.

The principals were unable to ensure everyone’s safety, but they definitely reduced the number of people adversely effected by the incident.

Here was what the two principals took away from the incident.  

1. The principalship is great training for crisis management.

The event was outside the scope of any formal training that the two principals had, but the assuming command in a chaotic situation was a reflex action for both of them.

2. If the best case scenario is a bad, learn from the incident and move on. 

There was a fatality.  And with 20/20 hindsight, the two principals could have done a few things slightly different.  But the bottom line is their response, at the very least, prevented others from being injured and/or traumatized. And as the first responders (or in this case the second responders) reminded the principals, in some cases, reducing a loss is the only win.   

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, TASSP Summer Conference, Virginia Middle and High School Principals 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