As we prepare for the upcoming school year, nearly every campus will have a student attendance goal. Which will mean nothing. The brutal truth is that student attendance is not an issue at the vast majority of schools. My theory on student attendance goals is that we have them so we are assured of having…
It always amazes me how often campus operations and practices are left to chance. We hire staff and then hope that through luck and osmosis the new hires will know what to do. There is a better way. Implement a new hire induction program. Why? Because an induction program ensure that new hires…
After reading the 6/12/18 post, “School Performance – The Big Picture, Part 1” and the 6/13/18 post, “School Performance – The Big Picture, Part 2,” an old school LYSer shares the following. It’s still perplexing to me that people think that it’s “other factors” outside of the day-to-day on-campus leadership that makes the difference in…
If you are not following @LYSNation on Twitter, then you missed the Top 10 LYS tweets from the past week 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. There is a simple logic to rating schools A-F. Meaning,…
If you are trying to improve performance, what should you focus on? Increasing success? Or, reducing failure? It really depends on where you are, either personally (as a teacher) or organizationally (as a leader). If your success rate is relatively low, less than 92%, then focus on increasing success. Let’s face it, an…
