Top LYS Tweet from the Week of November 19, 2017

If you are not following @LYSNation on Twitter, then you missed the Top 10 LYS Tweets from the week of November 19, 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. He is the Baptist preacher who stands tall for public education. He pulls no punches and fights against vouchers. Meet Pastor Charles Johnson. (@washingtonpost)

2. Kids can’t do math? - We teach them! Kids can’t read? - We teach them! Kids can’t behave? - We punish them?? ‘What’s with that?’ (By @mraspinall)

3. If you want your students to know it, make them write about it! (By @mcknightmare29)

4. The fallacy of “school choice“ is that we only have the responsibility to educate our OWN children – not the responsibility to educate ALL children. A fundamental violation of the American ideal. (By @pastors4txkids)

5. Schools are not defined by the mission statement on the wall; they are defined by what actually goes on in classrooms. (By @SteeleThoughts)

6. You already know enough about most of the problems you face to identify the right person to solve them. (By @Leadershipfreak)

7. Something I’ve noticed about good teachers... is that they want to be better teachers. (By @SteeleThoughts)

8. When we get tired and stressed, we forget how powerful our words can be. (By @mcknightmare29)

9. If everyone moved from talking about it to doing it, the inertia would change. (By @ideaguy42)

10. Washington’s dysfunction is bad enough, now Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick has brought the circus antics home to Austin. As your Republican lieutenant governor, I promise to spend less time on TV and more time working for all Texans! Retire Dan Patrick (By @smidler)

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: TASSP Assistant Principal Workshop (Keynote) 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on @LYSNation and like Lead Your School on Facebook

Character Education Programs

Due to my background and travels, a lot of educators will ask me about character education / discipline management programs.  Which ones work best, which one to avoid, etc.? 

There are lots of good ones out there.  Personally, I endorse Girls and Boys Town.  Girls and Boys Town is to discipline management what Benjamin Bloom and Madeline Hunter are to instruction.  Everything else is a derivative of the original breakthrough thinking and practice.

That being said, it really doesn’t matter which fundamentally sound program you pick. Success and failure isn’t based on the program. It is based on you. 

If the program your select is implemented with full fidelity by every adult on the campus, it will work.

Every modification (no matter how logical) and every adult who opts out, “My kids behave just fine, I don’t need a program,” increases the both the speed and inevitability of failure.  But it is not program failure, it is implementation failure. And implementation failure is leadership failure.

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) 
• 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 30, 2017

If you are not following @LYSNation on Twitter, then you missed the Top 10 LYS Tweets from the week of April 30, 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. There is real risk that a federally funded voucher program will lead to more segregation in schools. -Phil Tegeler (By @akarhuse)

2. If instruction stops after the high stakes test, it gets hard for people to believe the argument that teaching is more than a test score. (By @BluntEducator)

3. "Those who say forgiveness is a sign of weakness haven't tried it." -Desmond Tutu (By @clwilkens)

4. A long list of classroom rules probably causes more discipline problems than it prevents. (By @BluntEducator)

5. “The educated differ from the uneducated - as much as the living differ from the dead.” (By @DrRichAllen)

6. Wisdom isn't in knowing all the answers. Wisdom is in applying those answers once we find them. (By @clwilkens)

7. Conspiracy Theorists May Really Just Be Lonely –Scientific American (By @LYSNation)

8. Conservative business leaders all over Texas think public tax money for private schools with no accountability is… Just. Plain. Dumb. (By @pastors4txkids)

9. Conservative faith leaders all over Texas think government meddling in church schools through voucher programs is… Just. Plain. Wrong. (By @pastors4txkids)

10. If conservative business leaders and pastors think vouchers violate tax accountability and religious liberty, how are vouchers conservative? (By @pastors4txkids)

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, 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