Katie Thompson

@PrinciplClausen @SSCActivities So proud!!!!

SSC State Wrestling. Adrian Curiel wins 13 to 2 and guaranteed to place. @SSCActivities

@Sscwrestling So proud of you Adrian!

Adrian is a district champion! He is now a 3x state qualifier!

@Sscwrestling Way to go boys! So proud of you all!

I’m very proud of the hard work and dedication this team has put in this year!

Cooper DeJean attended a Class 1A school called Odebolt Arthur Battle Creek Ida Grove (OABCIG) High School with an enrollment of 306 students and grew up in Odebolt, Iowa which has less than 1,000 people. That pick 6 was for all of the small town kids in America. #SuperBowl

Cooper DeJean arrives to play in the Super Bowl on his 22nd birthday wearing his OABCIG High School letterman jacket

27 Awesome Straight-Talk Quotes About #Teaching owl.li/zq20B #edchat #passiondriven

@drronyortega @HarneyElementa1 @IXLLearning Wonderful turn out for a beautiful afternoon!

Standing room only @HarneyElementa1 today! Parents received brief information on @IXLLearning in three different languages and then got to read with their own child on the school playground! #Parents #Engagement #WeAreSSC

Yea buddy!! Proud of you, Mac!

Way to go buddy!

@drronyortega So excited to start this new journey! #onebus

Our new HMH Into Reading K-5 ELA Resources and Materials are here! Many thanks to Mr. Swatek, elementary principals, and teachers & staff for all their leadership and work leading up to this point! Thanks to our maint. crew for unloading the semi, too! #WeAreSSC #TogetherStronger

Amazing things happening @ElemHarney I am so proud to be apart of this staff and school!

Take care of the ones who care for the students.

@andreasen_mike @ElemHarney @SSCcardinalNews We love building our people up! It was a great day to make people smile!

When you arrive at school at 6:30 to find our Harney cheer squad passing out goodies to teachers on the second 12 hour day! #BuiltDifferent @SSCcardinalNews

After his second year at Michigan, Tom Brady wanted to transfer. He wasn't playing in games, and he was so low on the depth chart that he only got 2 reps in practice. Brady met with his coach to express his frustration, “The other quarterbacks get all the reps.” Coach replied, “Brady, I want you to stop worrying about what all the other players on our team are doing. All you do is worry about what the starter is doing, what the second guy is doing, what everyone else is doing. You don't worry about what you're doing.” Coach reminded him, “You came here to be the best. If you're going to be the best, you have to beat out the best.” And then he recommended that Brady start meeting with Greg Harden, a sports psychologist who worked in Michigan's athletic department. Brady went to Harden's office and whined, “I'm never going to get my chance. They're only giving me 2 reps.” Harden simply replied, “Just go out there and focus on doing the best you can with those 2 reps. Make them as perfect as you possibly can.” “So that's what I did,” Brady said. “They'd put me in for those 2 reps, man, I'd sprint out there like it was Super Bowl 39. 'Let's go boys! Here we go! What play we got?'” “And I started to do really well with those 2 reps. Because I brought enthusiasm, I brought energy.” Soon, it went from getting 2 reps to getting 4 reps. Then from 4 to 10, “and before you knew it,” Brady said, with this new mindset that Greg instilled in me—to focus on what you can control, to focus on what you're getting, not what anyone else is getting, to treat every rep like it's the Super Bowl—eventually, I became the starter.” Takeaway 1: Greg Harden telling Brady to just focus on being great during his 2 reps reminded me of a piece of advice from the entrepreneur Mark Cuban. “People come to me all the time and tell me they're stuck,” Cuban explained. “They're stuck in a job they don't like. They're stuck working for a boss they don't like. They're stuck on a team they don't like.” “I just tell them, 'Be great.'” “The reality of life is that you can't just always quit your job. You can't just always go to your boss and say, 'Give me the promotion, or I'm out of here.'” You can't just always go to your coach and say, 'Give me more reps, or I'm transferring.' “So when you're stuck, you've gotta find it within yourself to say, 'Ok, this is where I am. And if I'm going to be here, I'm going to be great.' Because if you're great at your job, typically other people and companies find out, so it creates opportunities.” Takeaway 2: I've written before about “lead measures”—the actions and behaviors that predictably drive success. The core characteristic of a lead measure, the authors of The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) write, is that “a lead measure is influenceable; it can be directly influenced by you.” To achieve your goals, they recommend (echoing what the Michigan Coach told Brady), apply a disproportionate energy to the things that are in your control. Starting at Michigan and for the rest of his career, that’s what Brady did, that’s what drove his success. In his first media call after he was selected by the New England Patriots with the 199th pick in the 2000 draft, Brady was asked: “Are you aware that [along with starting quarterback, Drew Bledsoe] there’s another quarterback here that they drafted last year?” Brady said he was aware of that. “And I know he’s a heck of a player,” Brady said. “But I’ve always really concerned myself just with the things I can control. I don’t put a lot of thinking into the other guys because I know I’m not at my best when I’m not just thinking about playing as well as I possibly can.” - - - “I never once in my life ever said I wanted to be the best of all time. Ever. I wanted to be the best I could be, period. I learned that in college. It didn’t matter what the other guys were doing. It mattered what I was doing.” — Tom Brady Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!

@andreasen_mike @SSCcardinalNews Thanks for representing SSC!

It was great visiting with future teachers at Wayne State today! SSC has a lot of opportunities for teachers! Come join our team! @SSCcardinalNews

@jjd005 @ElemHarney Pumped for this year!!

Back to school with my bestie! Love the selfie wall and greeting today. We are ready to change lives! @jjd005 @SSCcardinalNews #weareSSC

@drronyortega We are so excited to have you leading us! Looking forward to an amazing year and many years to come under your leadership! Welcome to SSC!

Today marks a new beginning for me. I am honored to be the superintendent of South Sioux City Community Schools! #WeAreSSC Hoy marca un nuevo comienzo para mí. ¡Me siento honrado de ser el superintendente de las Escuelas Comunitarias de South Sioux City! #SomosSSC

The best part of the day! Seeing smiling faces whether at VIP tables or dancing in the gym! #cheersquad work at its finest! Shout out the the mastermind @jjd005 happy to be along for the ride!

@Michell02976605 Oh I hope @blakeshelton pulls them up to sing with him!!!

@blakeshelton My girls have enjoyed watching you (&Gwen) on the voice & singing along to your songs since they were old enough to sing. We surprised them with tickets to your Sioux Falls show for Christmas! If you need help singing “Hell Right” the Potts girls have you covered!