The GISD Fundamental 5 Camp - Recognize & Reinforce Tweets

On August 4, my Twitter time line blew up with tweets from the Garland ISD Fundamental 5 Camp.  Today I’m sharing the tweets generated from Rebecca Dickens’ “Recognize & Reinforce” breakout sessions.

Success is doing better today than I did yesterday. (By @LYSNation)

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. (By @ElredgeWendy)

Tie recognition of the attainment of the learning goal reinforces any growth. (By @Hollnwall)

Recognition and reinforcement turns reluctant participants into enthusiastic volunteers. (By @LYSNation)

Continued effort over time brings success! (By @reberson_jenny)

Recognition should not only happen when the students meet the goal, it occurs with any progression towards where you want students to be. (By @Hollnwall)

Recognizing and reinforcing is not a gamble... It is a sure thing! (By @LYSNation)

It's all about specific reinforcement and recognition with a focus on ACADEMICS! (By @ZabGon)

Recognition - Think the "S.P.A." treatment...Specific, Personal, and Academic! (By @kishaculpepper)

Misconceptions between recognize and reinforce are evident. Let's focus on academic effort. (By @AngleArivera11b)

Defining success is essential when reinforcing effort. (By @ty_nelson22)

Success means your doing better today than yesterday. (By @leescotty)

Why recognize and reinforce?  Up to 30% increase in academic achievement. (By @trisiatatum)

Recognition and reinforcement needs to be specific, personal and academic. (By @leescotty)

Recognize and reinforce builds growth mindset fosters grit! (By @Charboknows)

Recognition & Reinforcement - transforming reluctant volunteers into willing participants. (By @drkim2004)

The key to student achievement is recognizing the efforts of all. It's not always about reaching a standard. Try looking at growth. (By @desstewart)

Recognize and reinforce all student achievement in your class. It's not about meeting a standard, but showing academic growth. (By @desstewart)

Next up... Frequent Small Group Purposeful Talk

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 
• Call Jo at (832) 477-LEAD to order your campus set of “Look at Me: A Cautionary School Leadership Tale” Individual copies available on Amazon.com!  http://tinyurl.com/lookatmebook 
• Now at the Apple App Store: Fun 5 Plans (Fundamental 5 Lesson Plan Tool); PW Lite (Basic PowerWalks Tool); PW Pro (Mid-level PowerWalks Tool) 
• Upcoming Presentations: The Fundamental 5 National Summit (Keynote Presentation) 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook

Top LYS Tweets From the Week of August 3, 2014

A number of you in the LYS Nation are now Twitter users.  If you haven’t done so yet, we want you to join us.  To let you see what you are missing, here are the Top 10 LYS Tweets from the week of August 3, 2014.

1. Congratulations to LYSer, Jeff LaCoke! He is the new principal at Ault Elementary School!! Who will be next? (By @LYSNation)

2. Congratulations to LYSer, Kenneth Henry! He is the new principal at Duryea Elementary School!! Who will be next? (By @LYSNation)

3. Today's Quote:  "Education will take students much farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball - that's just the bottom line." (By @DrRichAllen)

4. Before ridiculing a kid for not having a pen, think of the fact that you probably borrowed one in the last PLC/faculty meeting. (By @RafranzDavis)

5. During the school year I want teachers focused on only two things. 1 - Planning instruction. 2 - Delivering instruction. (By @LYSNation)

6. What has happened in Texas where we have families sleeping outside in a line for free school supplies? (By @DrJerryRBurkett)

7. COMMUNICATION GUIDELINES: If someone verbally attacks, criticizes or blames you, do not respond in the same manner. (By @DrKnixa)

8. People who think good managers, who have no instructional leadership skills, can lead successful schools really confuse me. (By @Snowmanlearning)

9. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard!! (By @Coker_Bellville)

10. All things being equal, the faster the tempo the more successful the school. (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 
• Call Jo at (832) 477-LEAD to order your campus set of “Look at Me: A Cautionary School Leadership Tale” Individual copies available on Amazon.com!  http://tinyurl.com/lookatmebook 
• Now at the Apple App Store: Fun 5 Plans (Fundamental 5 Lesson Plan Tool); PW Lite (Basic PowerWalks Tool); PW Pro (Mid-level PowerWalks Tool) 
• Upcoming Presentations: The Fundamental 5 National Summit (Keynote Presentation) 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook

The GISD Fundamental 5 Camp - Frame the Lesson Tweets

On August 4, my Twitter time line blew up with tweets from the Garland ISD Fundamental 5 Camp.  Today I’m sharing the tweets the were inspired from Amy Henderson’s, Frame the Lesson, breakout sessions.

"When the teacher frames the lesson, he/she teaches deeper and stronger -- RIGOR... (By @tbrown6567)

If we don't close the lesson we are leaving retention on the table. (By @rdscroggin)  

A major aspect of monitoring and adjusting is monitoring and adjusting SELF! (By @tbrown6567)

Lesson framing provides focus and expectations for the student and teacher. (By @tbrown6567)

Framing requires teacher clarity on lesson purpose and outcomes. (By @charboknows)

True learning is messy.... Practice doesn't make perfect, it makes it permanent. (By @Hollnwall)

@OCTHenderson, Outstanding presentation! Framing the Lesson provides students an opportunity to self-manage their learning! (By @wells_jovan)

We draw attention to what is important. Frame your lesson! (By @charboknows)

"When I frame the lesson, I am clear about exactly what I want my students to come away with THAT DAY!" A. Henderson (By @Honeytres)

Next up... Recognize & Reinforce

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 
• Call Jo at (832) 477-LEAD to order your campus set of “Look at Me: A Cautionary School Leadership Tale” Individual copies available on Amazon.com!  http://tinyurl.com/lookatmebook 
• Now at the Apple App Store: Fun 5 Plans (Fundamental 5 Lesson Plan Tool); PW Lite (Basic PowerWalks Tool); PW Pro (Mid-level PowerWalks Tool) 
• Upcoming Presentations: The Fundamental 5 National Summit (Keynote Presentation) 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook

The GISD Fundamental 5 Camp - Fundamental Change Tweets

On August 4, my Twitter time line blew up with tweets from the Garland ISD Fundamental 5 Camp.  To share the great insights and thinking that occurred at the camp, over the next few days I will share the best tweets from participants, categorized by topic. Today I’m sharing the tweets leading up to and then from the keynote address, “Fundamental Change”.

20 minutes until the start of the Garland ISD Fundamental 5 Camp! Already a packed house. Garland shows up... EARLY! (By @ LYSNation)

Excited to be learning with GISD today! (By @OCTHenderson)

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Get ready for a session filled with energy and practical approaches to great instruction. (By @Cmcval1930)

I can't wait to hear from Sean Cain. (By @clgoff10)

A great campus is not determined by great test scores. (By @runnergirl70)

The person doing the work is doing the learning. Teachers are doing the most work in the classrooms. (By @runnergirl70)

An academic task turns into practice when the teacher is in the Power Zone. (By @runnergirl70)

Critical Writing is THE most effective thing we can do in the classroom, yet less than 4% are doing it! YIKES! (By @runnergirl70)

"Let's tip the scales in 2014-15!" (By @tbrown6567)

Don't just do basketball related activities, change proximity and the true practice begins. (By @Hollnwall)

Talk AND Write ... feeling freaky!! (By @drkim2004)

"Talk...write...or...do both" (By @tbrown6567)

I really liked the way Sean pulled Marzano and the Fun Five together! (By @kblozada)

Strive to change the dynamics in the classroom... Deliver instruction differently. (By @roberson_jenny)

A student's worth should not be defined by a zip code. (By @EldredgeWendy)

A great campus is not determined by raw test scores but by those that outperform their peers.... (By @Ephood)

Next up... Frame the Lesson Tweets

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 
• Call Jo at (832) 477-LEAD to order your campus set of “Look at Me: A Cautionary School Leadership Tale” Individual copies available on Amazon.com!  http://tinyurl.com/lookatmebook 
• Now at the Apple App Store: Fun 5 Plans (Fundamental 5 Lesson Plan Tool); PW Lite (Basic PowerWalks Tool); PW Pro (Mid-level PowerWalks Tool) 
• Upcoming Presentations: The Fundamental 5 National Summit (Keynote Presentation) 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook

A Reader Writes... The Astronomical Cost of Comp Time - Part 2

In response to the 6/19/2014 post, “The Astronomical Cost of Comp Time,” a LYS Principal writes:

SC,

Your post was right on. Love it!

And just so you know, we now have summer training stipend is our budget.

SC Response

Fantastic.  We all know if our teachers are to have any chance to keep up with advances in the field (hooray) and advances in punitive accountability (boo) then on-going training is not a want. It is a need.  We also know that for intensive and deep training, the summer is the best, if not only, time to provide this training.  But only a handful of districts adequately budget to provide training stipends.  The budget is the best indicator of district priority.  It’s not just enough to say teachers are the most critical employees in a school system. A little stipend at the right time goes along way to proving that sentiment.

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 
• Call Jo at (832) 477-LEAD to order your campus set of “Look at Me: A Cautionary School Leadership Tale” Individual copies available on Amazon.com!  http://tinyurl.com/lookatmebook 
• Now at the Apple App Store: Fun 5 Plans (Fundamental 5 Lesson Plan Tool); PW Lite (Basic PowerWalks Tool); PW Pro (Mid-level PowerWalks Tool) 
• Upcoming Presentations: The Fundamental 5 National Summit (Keynote Presentation) 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook

Top LYS Tweets From the Week of July 27, 2014

A number of you in the LYS Nation are now Twitter users.  If you haven’t done so yet, we want you to join us.  To let you see what you are missing, here are the Top 10 LYS Tweets from the week of July 27, 2014.

1. If you grade in such a way that removes all hope, you're doing it all wrong. (By @8Amber8)

2. A system prevents your team from being defeated by individual "best intentions." (By @LYSNation)

3. Education is the best defense against organized ignorance. (By @DreweryEric)

4. Public education is the greatest tool we have to fight injustice, discrimination, & oppression-to create a better society. (By @DrMandyStewart)

5. If one supports equitable learning standards and equitable teacher quality, how does one fail to support equitable funding for schools? (By @johnkuhntx)

6. Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm. (By @CoachKWisdom)

7. Formative assessment is the pathway to greatness.  It starts the feedback loop for teachers and students. (By @KDanielLSR7)

8. A teacher who doesn't know me just shared how The Fundamental 5 has changed her campus and recommends that I read the book. I think I will. (By @LYSNation)

9. Emotional intelligence is more important than general intelligence, but hard work is more important than both! (By @tgrierhisd)

10. The Fundamental 5 (Cain & Laird) has just surpassed 62,000 copies sold! Thank you, LYS Nation!!! (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
• Call Jo at (832) 477-LEAD to order your campus set of “Look at Me: A Cautionary School Leadership Tale” Individual copies available on Amazon.com!  http://tinyurl.com/lookatmebook 
• Now at the Apple App Store: Fun 5 Plans (Fundamental 5 Lesson Plan Tool); PW Lite (Basic PowerWalks Tool); PW Pro (Mid-level PowerWalks Tool) 
• Upcoming Presentations: The Fundamental 5 National Summit (Keynote Presentation) 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook