The 5 Year Plan

I had a non-LYS Assistant Superintendent tell me once, “Do you know what the problem is with you guys? You don’t have 5 Year Plans. You LYSers are too short-sighted.” 

He was telling me this as part of his explanation for why his non-improving schools were actually doing better than the improving LYS schools.

So, I just replied, “When exactly is your 5 Year Plan supposed to actually yield results?”

On one level he was right, we’re not big fans of the Five-Year Plan.  Instead, we are advocates for having a series of 1Year Plans.  Make your 1 Year Plan, run full speed, assess at the end of the year.  Make a new 1 Year Plan, run full speed, assess at the end of the year. And so on...

The World changes overnight.  A series of 1 Year Plans reflects this reality. 

In contrast, the 5 Year Plan (which often take a year or more to create) is generally outdated before the ink dries on the paper.

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 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook

Top LYS Tweets from the Week of October 29, 2017 (World Series Edition)

If you are not following @LYSNation on Twitter, then you missed the Top 10 LYS Tweets from the week of October 29, 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. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FRANCHISE HISTORY, THE HOUSTON ASTROS ARE WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS!  (By @astros)

2. The Astros won it all behind an unlikely 33-year-old journeyman (Charlie Morton) and the power of community. (By @Sinow)

3. There’s no crying in baseball. Unless you win a freaking WORLD SERIES! (By @abc13houston)

4. World Champions Astros! We. Are. Houston Strong. History Earned. (By @UHouston)

5. You can guarantee I’m about to go broke on World Series Championship gear. Go Stros!!!!!!! (By @cheadhorn)

6. 18 records set (mostly by George Springer) in the 2017 World Series. (By @KPRC2)

7. George Springer is a deserving World Series MVP. He set numerous World Series records including 29 total bases and 8 extra base hits. (By @ESPNStatsInfo)

8. Couldn't be prouder, crying tears of joy!! Go Stros!!! (By @MattressMack)

9. Jeff Van Gundy called the Astros' World Series win way back in July. (By @espn))

10. Houston Astros, I LITERALLY love you! World Champions!!!! (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: The Fundamental 5 National Summit (Keynote) 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook

The Biggest (So Far) Fundamental 5 National Summit Begins Tomorrow!

Legendary Leadership Badge (October 2017)

There are those that don’t understand the power of reflective observation.  They mistakenly believe that there is nothing to learn after a few cursory visits to a classroom.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  In fact, the most important key to building insight and deeper understanding about teaching and learning is to engage in a steady volume of daily classroom observation.  What we have learned over the past ten years is that after about every 300 classroom observations, the observer will notice, discern, and/or learn something new... something that was previously hidden. It is the “Eureka” moment, and there is nothing else like it in instructional leadership.

In this pursuit, there is the PowerWalks Legendary Leadership Badge that is earned every 300^th PowerWalks Observation. The following instructional leaders have already earned the Legendary Leadership Badge for the 2017/2018 school year (as of 10/31/17).

Two Legendary Leadership Badges

Kenneth Bryant (GPISD): October; September

Shon Joseph (LISD): October: September

One Legendary Leadership Badge

Toni Chapman (CCSD1): October

Eric Cormier (BISD): October

Gerardo Cruz (GPISD): October

Nancy Delosa (GPISD): October

Jennifer Engels (LPISD): October

Larry Gerhart (LPISD): October

Julien Guillory (GPISD): October

Karen Ivy (CISD): October

Greg Lauder (JCPS): October

Tera Marburgh (GPISD): October

Ann Murphy (GPISD): October

Pattie Myers (CISD): October

Barika Noris (GPISD): October

Candace Pohl (LPISD): October

Robert Reedy (JCPS): October

Janie Snyder (GPISD): October

Krystle Breden (GPISD): September

Derrick Brown (SISD): September

Chris Viator (LPISD): September

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