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 28, 2015.

1. “Texas public schools are fully funded.” A lie is still a lie no matter how many times it’s presented and repeated as the truth. (By @pastor4txkids)

2. Why insist schools are adequately funded when our courts, superintendents, principals and teachers know they are not? (By @pastor4txkids)

3. Don’t use data to sort students but to sort instructional practices that work or don’t work! (By @yankee_todd)

4. Use common assessment data to sort instructional strategies, not to sort kids. (By @englishtchr1977)

5. One of the great ironies of organization leadership is that we take our best people and ask them to work significantly harder than the others. (By  @JasonJj7)

6. Two things that add chaos to the classroom: clutter and attitude. (By @vbstuart)

7. Educators, your purpose is to develop talent not select talent. (By @SteveRamirez)

8. “Education is truly the only silver bullet to improve our nation’s standing worldwide.” (By @DrRichAllen)

9. If you want to be an instructional leader, make sure you’re spending time where the instruction is happening. (By @eduleadership)

10. Telling people to dial back their strengths is filling their pockets with rocks. (By @Leadershipfreak)

Think. Work. Achieve. Your turn…

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