If you are not following @LYSNation on Twitter, then you missed the Top 10 LYS Tweets from the week of December 4, 2016 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.     Public education is a community of moral formation. That may be lost on some of our leaders – but it is not lost on our school teachers. (By @pastors4txkids)

2.     “Schools need to be places where everyone feels they belong.” (By @DrRichAllen)

3.     Anytime you as the leader voice your opinion before others have been heard, true collaboration is killed unintentionally. (By @iPrincipalJJ) 

4.     In order to be a winner, you have to look for ways of getting things done and not for reasons why things can’t be done. (By @CoachKWisdom)

5.     “Refugees often risk everything to arrive in our country… And whatever their background, they deserve our sympathy, not our contempt.” –G.W. Bush (By @TheBushCenter)

6.     The correlation between Improvement Required schools in Texas and high poverty level schools is almost perfect. (By @pastors4txkids)

7.     “Like never before, Texas public schools are under attack.” (By @pastors4txkids)

8.     Dr. Victor Carrion found that when children are repeatedly exposed to stress, their brains are bathed in the stress hormone cortisol. (By @tgrierhisd)

9.     “Sure, it’s the holidays.  Learning, however, is always in season.” (By @DrRichAllen)

10.  Chewing the same flavor gum while studying and right before your exam will boost test scores. (By @UHouston)

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