Leading for Results : Transforming Teaching, Learning, and Relationships in Schools.

Featuring 18 new essays, this second edition shows how school leaders can promote extraordinary changes, be accountable, and achieve meaningful results for schools, districts, and their personal lives.

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Main Author: Sparks, Dennis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2006.
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505 0 |a Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Introduction: Change Ourselves to Change Organizations -- How to Use This Book -- Part I -- Transformation Through Clarity and Creation -- Chapter 1 -- Use Fundamental Choices to Create Your Life -- Chapter 2 -- Clarify Your Intentions -- Chapter 3 -- Establish Stretch Goals -- Chapter 4 -- Identify Multiple Ways to Achieve Your Goals -- Chapter 5 -- Find the Trim Tab -- Chapter 6 -- Apply the 80/20 Principle -- Chapter 7 -- Practice "Satisficing" -- Chapter 8 -- Determine Root Causes -- Chapter 9 -- Develop a Theory of Action and Use Storytelling to Communicate It -- Chapter 10 -- Gain Clarity Through Writing, Speaking, and Reflecting on Action -- Chapter 11 -- Provide Teachable Points of View -- Part II -- Transformation Through Interpersonal Influence -- Chapter 12 -- Tell Your Truth -- Chapter 13 -- Use Candor to Assess Current Reality -- Chapter 14 -- Use Genuine Dialogue -- Chapter 15 -- Engage in Dialogue-like Conversations -- Chapter 16 -- Listen to Others in a Deep, Committed Way -- Chapter 17 -- Use Stillness and Silence as Learning Tools -- Chapter 18 -- Make Requests to Initiate Action and Create Results -- Chapter 19 -- Make and Keep Promises -- Chapter 20 -- Reduce Question Asking, Increase Declarative Statements -- Chapter 21 -- Minimize the Language of Obligation -- Chapter 22 -- Decrease the Use of Cause-Effect Language -- Chapter 23 -- Stand up for Your Point of View -- Part III -- Transformation Through A Culture That Promotes Professional Learning, Teamwork, and Continuous Improvement -- Chapter 24 -- Shape School Culture to Improve Teaching and Sustain Competent Teachers -- Chapter 25 -- Create Successful Schools -- Chapter 26 -- Promote Breakthrough Thinking -- Chapter 27 -- Attend to Leaders' Inner Development -- Chapter 28 -- Recognize Our Best Selves. 
505 8 |a Chapter 29 -- Increase the Use of Signature Strengths -- Chapter 30 -- Enhance Your Personal Energy -- Chapter 31 -- Build Relationships to Sustain Positive Energy -- Chapter 32 -- Address the Fundamental Barriers to Professional Learning and Teamwork in Schools -- Chapter 33 -- Spread Positive Emotions Throughout the Organization -- Chapter 34 -- Address Anxiety in the Schoolhouse -- Chapter 35 -- Appeal to the Heart as Well as the Head -- Part IV -- Transformation Through Professional Learning and Doing -- Chapter 36 -- Design Powerful Professional Learning for All Educators -- Chapter 37 -- Match Professional Development Goals and Methods With Student Outcomes -- Chapter 38 -- Bridge the Knowing-Doing Gap -- Chapter 39 -- Amplify Positive Deviance in Schools -- Chapter 40 -- Create Professional Learning That Alters Educators' Brains -- Chapter 41 -- Install Next Action Thinking -- Chapter 42 -- Change Habits -- Chapter 43 -- Sustain the Conversation -- Index. 
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