Top LYS Tweets form the Week of July 2, 2017

If you are not following @LYSNation on Twitter, then you missed the Top 10 LYS Tweets from the week of July 2, 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. A vote for vouchers is a vote to VICTIMIZE public school children.  (By @LYSNation)

2. "Vouchers are NOT good for public school children. Vouchers STEAL from public school children." (By @LYSNation)

3. Vouchers represent "Sheriff of Nottingham" politics. Rob from the Poor... To give to the Rich. (By @LYSNation)

4. How to foster deeper learning: 1. Student-to-Student academic talk 2. Critical writing 3. Students creating a product of their own. (By @AsstSuptAAA2)

5. Faculty: It costs us nothing for our default response to be compassion for students. (By @TheTattooedProf)

6. "It is morally wrong to impugn our educators when they are doing amazing jobs with the resources they have." (By @pastors4txkids)

7. The Texas Senate current version of Texas Education Robin Hood is now stealing from the poor to help balance the budget for business tax cuts. Period. (By @RatliffT)

8. It amazes me how our politicians paint subsides for the poor as the death of the nation, yet tax credits for the rich will be our salvation. (By @LYSNation)

9. Excellence is intolerance for "good enough." (By @Leadershipfreak)

10. Excellence is the pursuit of better. Any organization that isn’t getting better is getting worse. (By @Leadershipfreak)

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 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) 
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Top LYS Tweets from the Week of June 25, 2017

If you are not following @LYSNation on Twitter, then you missed the Top 10 LYS Tweets from the week of June 25, 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. Lousy leaders spend too much time imposing demands on others and making exemptions for themselves. (By @Leadershipfreak)

2. The brutal truth is the expert delivery of the wrong content won't improve student performance. Student success is now a function of system and delivery. (By @LYSNation)

3. If you're going to lead, LEAD. If you're going to talk, get out of the way. (By @Leadershipfreak)

4. Effective planning MUST be remarkably specific about what students will learn and how they will demonstrate learning – See: Lesson Frame (By @AsstSuptAAA2)

5. If special needs kids were focus of the Texas Senate, therapy for medically fragile kids would be restored. (By @DinahMillerTX)

6. Seize small opportunities when big ones aren’t available. (By @Leadershipfreak)

7. “Research indicates that vocabulary and reading instruction should be embedded within math instruction.” (By @tasbnews)

8. If someone can't read, we teach. If someone can't add, we teach. If someone doesn't behave, we NEED to teach... not just punish. (By @justintarte)

9. You put your leadership in jeopardy when you embrace the comfort and convenience of avoiding people. (By @Leadershipfreak)

10. One of the most powerful feelings in the world is knowing that each one of us can make a positive impact on the lives of others! (By @Naveen_Jain_CEO)

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 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

The Second of Only Two Truths About School Vouchers

For the First Truth About School Vouchers, click HERE.

The Second Truth About School Vouchers: School vouchers are about dismantling public education, by starving public schools of adequate resources.

Public schools are funded to serve all children. Children with less than average needs, children with average needs, and children with above average needs.  The way public schools are currently (and inadequately funded) requires a little economy of scale. 

When all students are essentially funded the same (and yes, I understand weighted funding), the public school can only serve ANY and every student that enrolls because its funding resources are pooled (and yes, I understand dedicated funding).  The surplus from students requiring fewer resources are shared with students requiring more resources.

However, when school vouchers are introduced, this delicate funding balance (and it is delicate because public schools are woefully underfunded) is upended.

Why is this the case?  Ignore the flowery falsehoods spread by anti-public school politicians, school vouchers are not used to educate students requiring extra resources (poor, LEP, Special Education, etc.). School vouchers are used to educate the easy to teach.  Because private schools are not required to teach ANY student that shows up at their doors. Private schools are allowed to EXCLUDE and SAY NO for any reason, at their sole discretion.

The math is brutally simple. Subtract the funding of students not requiring extra resources and there is no surplus to use with needier students.  Which means that the public school now has to cut required services for the students that need them the most. 

Which then makes public schools seemingly less effective, thus “validating” the need for more school vouchers.

School vouchers represent an orchestrated doom loop that victimizes a public trust for elitist and anti-democratic gain.

Shameful.

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 National Principals Conference; The Fundamental 5 National Summit (Keynote) 
• Now at the Apple App Store: Fun 5 Timer (Fundamental 5 Delivery Tool); PowerWalks 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook