Top LYS Tweets From the Week of November 11, 2012

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I hope everyone had a safe and restful Thanksgiving Holiday. Before weroll into the posts we’ll catch up on LYS Tweets, which continued during thebreak.  If you don’t follow@LYSNation, here are the Top 10 LYS Tweets from the week of November 11,2012.
1. If your students repeatedly can't, that is asign that you should try something different.
2. A Fundamental Law of Performance: If youdon't work the plan, the plan won't work.
3. Push back is just another form of feedback. Don't let itfrustrate you; use it as a learning tool. (By @DCulberhouse)
4. How much time do elementary school studentsspend reading informational texts? Only 3.6 minutes a day. (By@anniemurphypaul)
5. Teachers constantly bust their tails to getmonosyllable responses from individuals. Instead, embed Frequent Small GroupPurposeful Talk to make kids engage in the content.
6. So where is, "The kids have worked hard for the past two days, so this is theircatch-up time..." in C-Scope?
7. Training without follow up cueing,monitoring and support is, at best, just a session that presents suggestedpractices.
8. Increased testing rigor, less funding, and overhauledaccountability system, it's hard to argue that public education isn't being setto fail. (By @DrJerryRBurkett)
9. Hey SC! Saw a guy here at the University of North Texas EducationLeadership Conference drinking from an LYS tumbler... Love the LYS influence!!(By @drstevenwurtz)
10. To anyone who wants to secede from the U.S. Tell that to a marineor anyone else who bled for this country. (By @TitusNation)
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