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 March 9, 2014.

1. If you can’t learn from failure, leadership is not for you. (By @HalLRoberts)

2. Had to unfollow / stop recruiting a young man this evening. Still amazed by what recruits tweet / retweet. College coaches are watching. (By @CoachSings)

3. Do your best to ignore the critics. They have the luxury of being neither accountable nor responsible. (By @LYSNation)

4. The reason more folks aren’t world-class anythings is that almost nobody LIKES to do the deliberate practice required. (By @ezigbo)

5. Show me stressed students and I’ll show you adults wound tighter than clock springs and doing a poor job of hiding it. (By @LYSNation)

6. Be kind to unkind people . . . They really need it. (By @CoryBooker)

7. Talking negatively about someone often says more about you than it does the person you are trashing. (By @BruceVH)

8. If we don’t model what we teach, we are teaching something else. – Abraham Maslow (By @ToddWhitaker)

9. Of the 3 million students suspended out of school, 70% were black, Latino, and/or students with disabilities. (By @allisonrbrown)

10. A child without preschool is 25% more likely to drop out of school and 40% more likely to become a teenage parent. (By @RYHTexas)

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: TASSP Summer Conference (Multiple Presentations); ESC 14 Sumer Conference (Keynote Presentation); ESC 11 Summer Conference (Keynote Presentation); NEASP 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