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 June 15, 2014.

1. Congratulations to LYSer, Carlin Grammer! He is the new Principal for Midland High School!! Who will be next? (By @LYSNation)

2. Focus your energy on the points of greatest leverage. For a principal, that would be the adults who interface most with the students. (By @TinneyTroy)

3. Adult practice drives student performance. (By @shaunbarnett)

4. It’s best practice that moves our toughest to teach kids. Their performance is a good gauge of best practice frequency and implementation. (By @LYSNation)

5. To increase rigor, kids need to Write Something, Say Something, or Create Something! – E. Don Brown (By @CEverettEdD)

6. Aha moment: Get the pacing down first and then focus on the rigor…duh! (By @baldwinAPlife)

7. Data driven instruction helps us to realize that we adults are truly the ones empowered to move kids to success or failure.  (By @Snowmanlearning)

8. A Lesson Frame is for students. Objectives are usually for fulfilling administrative mandate. (By @LYSNation)

9. You buy a student lunch and you notice that his severe behavioral problems become more and more manageable in class. (By @tra_hall)

10. Just found out that The Fundamental 5 (Cain & Laird) just passed 59,000 copies sold like it was standing still! Thank you, LYS Nation!! (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 
• Call Jo at (832) 477-LEAD to order your campus set of “Look at Me: A Cautionary School Leadership Tale” Individual copies available on Amazon.com!  http://tinyurl.com/lookatmebook 
• Now at the Apple App Store: Fun 5 Plans (Fundamental 5 Lesson Plan Tool); PW Lite (Basic PowerWalks Tool); PW Pro (Mid-level PowerWalks Tool) 
• Upcoming Presentations: NAESP National Conference; The Fundamental 5 National Summit (Keynote Presentation) 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook