Top LYS Tweets from the Week of November 5, 2017

If you are not following @LYSNation on Twitter, then you missed the Top 10 LYS Tweets from the week of November 5, 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. School culture doesn’t happen by accident. It is built one positive adult action at a time, by all adults, every day. (By @LYSNation)

2. If you are OK with teachers using less effective practice because your scores are “good.” You are sacrificing student opportunity for adult comfort. (By @LYSNation)

3. Success and failure aren’t based on a program. They are based on you. (By @DrKing_BBJH)

4. It is not about who is in my classroom, it's about what I'm doing with instruction. (By @Faith4learning)

5. Real instructional relevance is student developed, not teacher delivered. (By @tra_hall)

6. Quality trumps quantity... But I still am a firm believer in bell-to-bell learning. When secondary classrooms end early, lots of time is lost. (By @justintarte)

7. The coach doesn't sit in his/her office while the game is being played. (By @jackson_carrie)

8. Bad instruction is better than no instruction. Some schools are operating at 20% nothing time. (By @jackson_carrie)

9. The antecedent to most student misbehavior in the classroom is adult inattention and lazy practice. (By @LYSNation)

10. Scott Milder Makes It Official: He is running against Texas Lt. Governor, Dan Patrick, in the GOP primary. (By @texasisd)

Think. Work. Achieve.

Your turn...

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Using Rewards

The systems that I design and support for schools and districts generally entail the use of rewards for achieving goals, especially with students. Why? Because it works. What is interesting is that lots of teachers and administrators hate this. Their first comment is, “well, anybody can bribe someone to do better.”

Which always causes me to wonder why someone would drive their school into the ditch instead of trying everything and anything to get better?

Their next comment is generally, “you are just rewarding them for doing what they should be doing.”

To which I respond, “Exactly. You have to reward people for doing what they are supposed to be doing. Especially, students. The key to changing behavior is to reward the things you want to see more of and ignore the things you don’t want to see.”

For anybody who continues to argue that the use of extrinsic motivators is somehow wrong, I just ask them to donate their next paycheck to the district, since obviously they come to work everyday just because it is the right thing to do.

Think. Work. Achieve.

Your turn…