Wednesday, February 22, 2012 Free School Improvement Tool If there is a silver bullet for improving the quality of instructional delivery on a campus, it is the use of frequent objective classroom observation and coaching discussions. Lead Your School’s new PowerWalks Lite app is a great tool to use if your...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 A LYS Principal Shares... The Unexpected Side Effect! A LYS Principal shares the following: SC, I just finished reviewing campus discipline data. Our campus discipline referrals have dropped 43% from Fall Semester 2010 to Fall Semester 2011. The major instructional difference... Power Zone (and t...
Monday, February 20, 2012 Top LYS Tweets from the Week of February 12, 2012 This week, in the midst of conducting over fifty classroom observations (a normal occurrence), I realized something. There is a huge difference between traditional technology and bootleg technology. Traditional technology is expensive, intrusi...
Friday, February 17, 2012 Readers Ask... Explain the Lists A number of you wrote or called with questions about the LYS Top Ten Lists. The following, from an assistant superintendent, does a good job of summarizing the gist of those questions: SC, Can you please provide information on how the list wa...