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020 _a1412949696 (cloth)
020 _a141294970X (pbk.)
020 _a9781412949699 (cloth)
020 _a9781412949705 (pbk.)
035 _a(OCoLC)ocm70864494
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050 0 0 _aLB2805
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100 1 _aSparks, Dennis.
_959865
245 1 0 _aLeading for results :
_btransforming teaching, learning, and relationships in schools /
_cDennis Sparks.
250 _a2nd ed.
260 _a[Oxford, Ohio] :
_bNSDC,
_cc2007.
300 _axxx, 213 p. :
_bill ;
_c26 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : 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 question asking, 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.
520 _aProvides guidance and tools for school leaders, showing how to develop self-awareness regarding values, feelings, and intentions and use that awareness to energize an organization and help individuals meet their potential.
521 2 _aProfessional
_bFollett Library Resources.
650 0 _aEducational leadership.
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650 0 _aSchool management and organization.
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650 7 _aEducational leadership.
_2sears.
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650 7 _aSchools
_xAdministration.
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