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 April 27, 2014.

1. The most important responsibility of the Principal: Set the horizon of your students. (By @LYSNation)

2. Seriously… every administrator should spend regular time just sitting in a classroom to remember how hard it is to teach. (By @gcourous)

3. Teachers DESERVE regular interaction with administrators and being “too busy” to talk to teachers is insulting. (By @BluntEducator)

4. No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one. (By @CoachKWisdom)

5. The three key High School Performance Targets: 1. Get them in school. 2. Get them in class. 3. Get them in college. Miss the first two and there is no third. (By @LYSNation)

6. Texas charter school superintendents overpaid compared with public school counterparts. (By @JWalshtxlawdawg)

7. If you believe that the grades you assign are objective measures of mastery, and you curve or provide bonus points, you would be mistaken. (By @LYSNation)

8. Remember that time you made a mistake in the classroom? Luckily, your students didn’t hold it against you indefinitely. (By @BluntEducator)

9. NCAA says they won’t accept K-12 Online Learning credits toward athlete eligibility. (By @EducationNext)

10. The Fundamental 5 (Cain & Laird) just rocketed past 55,000 copies sold! Thank you, LYS Nation! (By @LYSNation)

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