Leading for results : transforming teaching, learning, and relationships in schools / Dennis Sparks.
By: Sparks, Dennis.
Material type: BookPublisher: Thousand Oaks, CA : [Oxford, OH] : Corwin Press, a Sage Publications Co. ; NSDC, c2007Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xxx, 213 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.ISBN: 1412949696 (cloth); 9781412949699 (cloth); 141294970X (pbk.); 9781412949705 (pbk.).Subject(s): School management and organization | Educational leadershipOnline resources: Publisher description | Table of contents only | Contributor biographical informationItem type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Item holds |
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General Circulation Books | Non-fiction | LB2805.S63 2007 (Browse shelf) | Available | MA |
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LB2395.3.S64 2010 Improving reading skills : | LB2395.3 .W66 1996 College Readings and Study Skills/Learning, Thinking, Making Connections | LB2805 .M37 2005 School leadership that works : | LB2805.S63 2007 Leading for results : | LB2806.15 .C87 2009 Curriculum 21 : | LB3012.2 .K64 1995 Smart discipline for the classroom : | LB3012.4 .S36 2002 School social Work |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : change ourselves to change organizations -- How to use this book -- Transformation through clarity and creation -- Use fundamental choices to create your life -- Clarify your intentions -- Establish stretch goals -- Identify multiple ways to achieve your goals -- Find the trim tab -- Apply the 80/20 principle -- Practice "satisficing" -- Determine root causes -- Develop a theory of action and use storytelling to communicate it -- Gain clarity through writing, speaking, and reflecting on action -- Provide teachable points of view -- Transformation through interpersonal influence -- Tell your truth -- Use candor to assess current reality -- Use genuine dialogue -- Engage in dialogue-like conversations -- Listen to others in a deep, committed way -- Use stillness and silence as learning tools -- Make requests to initiate action and create results -- Make and keep promises -- Reduce questionasking, increase declarative statements -- Minimize the language of obligation -- Decrease the use of cause-effect language -- Stand up for your point of view -- Transformation through a culture that promotes professional learning, teamwork, and continuous improvement -- Shape school culture to improve teaching and sustain competent teachers -- Create successful schools -- Promote breakthrough thinking -- Attend to leaders' inner development -- Recognize our best selves -- Increase the use of signature strengths -- Enhance your personal energy -- Build relationships to sustain positive energy -- Address the fundamental barriers to professional learning and teamwork in schools -- Spread positive emotions throughout the organization -- Address anxiety in the schoolhouse -- Appeal to the heart as well as the head -- Transformation through professional learning and doing -- Design powerful professional learning for all educators -- Match professional development goals and methods with student outcomes -- Bridge the knowing-doing gap -- Amplify positive deviance in schools -- Create professional learning that alters educators' brains -- Install next action thinking -- Change habits -- Sustain the conversation.
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