Leading for results: transforming teaching, learning, and relationships in schools/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Thousand Oaks, California: [Oxford]:
Corwin Press ;: Sage Publications ; NSDC,
c2007
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0665/2006025908-t.html |
Table of Contents:
- 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 edu