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Praise for the First Edition:"Sparks rejects simplistic solutions to school improvement, and honors the practical knowledge and expertise of educators.""???Richard DuFour, Educational Author and Consultant""Dennis Sparks has given us a practical, original, and tough-minded book about what schools need now. An excellent book???but even more, a book to act on.""???Mike Schmoker, Consultant and Author""In this inventive 'self-help???'handbook for educators, Dennis Sparks challenges and helps us???not to do something but to be something different.""???Roland S. Barth, Author, "Lessons Learned""Improve teaching and learning in your school by fostering personal and organizational change!"Authentic or transformational leadership flows from self-awareness regarding intentions, values, and feelings and its influence is reflected in a leader's actions. "Leading for Results, Second Edition," focuses on the educational leader's role in actualizing human potential and unleashing individual and organizational energy, while promoting extraordinary performance in "ordinary" people by first changing within oneself.In this updated edition featuring 18 new interactive essays, Dennis Sparks shows how school leaders can promote extraordinary changes, be accountable, and achieve meaningful results for schools, districts, and their personal lives. Using bold theories about education, leadership, teaching, and student learning, you'll learn how to make change happen, create usable strategies, commit to action, and achieve goals byExamining your assumptions and producing results-oriented thoughts, words, and actions Deepening your understanding of important issues related to theinterpersonal challenges of change Engaging in next-action thinking and applying what you've learnedThis powerful resource helps leaders to recognize their capacity for making a tremendous difference in their organizations, ensuring ultimate success!

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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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Leading for Results, Second Edition , focuses on the educational leader's role in actualizing human potential and unleashing individual and organizational energy, while promoting extraordinary performance in "ordinary" people by first changing within oneself.

Author Biography

Dennis Sparks has been executive director of the 10,000-member National Staff Development Council since 1984. He previously was an independent educational consultant and director of the Northwest Staff Development Center. Sparks has been a teacher, counselor, and co-director of an alternative high school. He completed his doctorate in counseling at the University of Michigan in 1976, and has taught at several universities. He speaks frequently throughout North America on topics such as powerful staff development and effective teaching.Sparks has authored Designing Powerful Professional Development for Teachers and Principals (NSDC, 2002) and Conversations that Matter (NSDC, 2001), a collection of his JSD interviews since 1991. He is co-author with Stephanie Hirsh of Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn (NSDC, 2000) and A New Vision for Staff Development (ASCD/NSDC, 1997). He also co-authored, with Joan Richardson, What is Staff Development Anyway? (NSDC, 1998).Sparks' column appears each month NSDC's newsletter, Results. His interviews with leading educational thinkers also appear in NSDC'sJournal of Staff Development. In addition, his articles have appeared in a variety of publications, including Educational Leadership, Phi Delta Kappan, The American School Board Journal, The Principal, and The School Administrator. Sparks' interviews and articles are accessible on the NSDC web site at cfm.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorIntroductionHow to Use This BookPart I: Transformation Through Clarity and Creation1. Use Fundamental Choices to Create Your Life2. Clarify Your Intentions3. Establish Stretch Goals4. Identify Multiple Ways to Achieve Your Goals5. Find the Trim Tab6. The 80/20 Principle7. Practice Satisficing8. Determine Root Causes9. Develop a Theory of Action and Use Storytelling to Communicate It10. Gain ClarityThrough Writing, Speaking, and Reflecting on Action11. Leaders Provide Teachable Points of ViewPart II: Transformation Through Interpersonal Influence12. Tell Your Truth13. Use Candor to Assess Current Reality14. Use Genuine Dialogue15. Engage in Dialogue-Like Conversations16. Listen to Others in a Deep, Committed Way17. Use Silence as a Learning Tool18. Make Requests to Initiate Action and Create Results19. Make and Keep Promises20. Replace Questions With Declarative Statements21. Minimize the Language of Obligation22. Decrease the Use of Cause-Effect Language23. Stand Up for Your Point of ViewPart III: Transformation Through a Culture That Promotes Professional Learning, Teamwork, and Continuous Improvement24. Shape School Culture to Improve Teaching and Sustain Competent Teaching25. Create Successful Schools26. Promote Breakthrough Thinking27. Attend to Leaders' Inner Development28. Recognize Our Best Selves29. Increase the Use of Signature Strengths30. Enhance Your Personal Energy31. Build Relationships to Sustain Positive Energy32. Address the Fundamental Barriers to Professional Learning and Teamwork in Schools33. Spread Positive Emotions Throughout the Organization34. Address Anxiety in the Schoolhouse35. Appeal to the Heart as Well as the HeadPart IV: Transformation Through Professional Learning and Doing36. Design Powerful Professional Learning for All Educators37. Match Professional Development Goals and Methods With Student Outcomes38. Bridge the Knowing-Doing Gap39. Amplify Positive Deviance40. Create Professional Learning That Alters Educators' Brains41. Install Next Action Thinking42. Change Habits43. Sustain the ConversationIndex

Review

"Sparks has distilled his vision of leadership into this helpful guide. This is a personal look at leadership, not as much about what leaders should do (although a large number of how-to's are included), but more about how leaders should think and feel to actualize their potential and unleash individual and organizational energy." -- The School Administrator, May 2007

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Praise for the First Edition: "Sparks rejects simplistic solutions to school improvement, and honors the practical knowledge and expertise of educators.""?Richard DuFour, Educational Author and Consultant""Dennis Sparks has given us a practical, original, and tough-minded book about what schools need now. An excellent book'but even more, a book to act on.""?Mike Schmoker, Consultant and Author""In this inventive 'self-help?'handbook for educators, Dennis Sparks challenges and helps us'not to do something but to be something different.""?Roland S. Barth, Author, "Lessons Learned""Improve teaching and learning in your school by fostering personal and organizational change!"Authentic or transformational leadership flows from self-awareness regarding intentions, values, and feelings and its influence is reflected in a leader's actions. "Leading for Results, Second Edition," focuses on the educational leader's role in actualizing human potential and unleashing individual and organizational energy, while promoting extraordinary performance in "ordinary" people by first changing within oneself. In this updated edition featuring 18 new interactive essays, Dennis Sparks shows how school leaders can promote extraordinary changes, be accountable, and achieve meaningful results for schools, districts, and their personal lives. Using bold theories about education, leadership, teaching, and student learning, you'll learn how to make change happen, create usable strategies, commit to action, and achieve goals byExamining your assumptions and producing results-oriented thoughts, words, and actions Deepening your understanding of important issues related to theinterpersonal challenges of change Engaging in next-action thinking and applying what you've learnedThis powerful resource helps leaders to recognize their capacity for making a tremendous difference in their organizations, ensuring ultimate success!

Review Quote

"Sparks has distilled his vision of leadership into this helpful guide. This is a personal look at leadership, not as much about what leaders should do(although a large number of how-tos are included), but more about how leaders should thinkand feelto actualize their potential and unleash individual and organizational energy."

Details ISBN141294970X Author Dennis Sparks Short Title LEADING FOR RESULTS 2/E Pages 213 Publisher Corwin Press Language English Edition 2nd ISBN-10 141294970X ISBN-13 9781412949705 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 371.2 Year 2006 Publication Date 2006-11-30 Subtitle Transforming Teaching, Learning, and Relationships in Schools Country of Publication United States Edited by Dennis Sparks Place of Publication Thousand Oaks Affiliation National Staff Development Council Replaces 9781412913935 Illustrations black & white illustrations Imprint SAGE Publications Inc DOI 10.1604/9781412949705 Audience Professional and Scholarly UK Release Date 2007-01-09 NZ Release Date 2007-01-09 US Release Date 2007-01-09 AU Release Date 2007-01-08 We've got this

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