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

"In this inventive 'self-help' handbook for educators, Dennis Sparks, the voice of professional development in our field, offers a compelling message: the power to lead and to learn resides within each of us if we will only summon it forth and live by it. He challenges--and helps us--not to do something but to be something different." (Roland S. Barth, Educator)

“Leading for Results is one of those rare books that warrants diligence and attention. Sparks rejects simplistic solutions to school improvement, and honors the craft knowledge and expertise of educators.” (Richard DuFour)

"The author has done all of us who want to improve education a real favor by writing this book." (Phillip Schlechty, CEO)

"Leading for Results is brimming with useful insights and practices for teachers, principals, superintendents and all leaders who wish to transform educational organizations. Leaders wishing to transform educational institutions need look no further than this helpful book." (Jane Dutton, William Russell Kelly Professor of Business Administration)

"In Leading For Results, Dennis Sparks has given us a practical, original, and tough-minded book abut what schools need now. An excellent book--but even more, a book to act on." (Mike Schmoker, Consultant and Author)

"In Leading for Results, Dennis Sparks invites readers to take part in a journey of self-discovery and actualization. In this highly personalized description of his own transformation as an educational leader, Sparks carves a path through the dense jungle of organizational complexity, helping others to see their own paths to effective leadership in new and clearer ways." (Thomas Guskey, Professor, College of Education)

Leading for Results consists of 26 gems of action oriented vignettes. Each is a treasure in its own right, and together they make up a consistent and powerful call to action. A powerful book of purposeful reform for those at all levels of the system committed to getting results. (Michael Fullan)

"Dennis Sparks provides a personal roadmap for transformational self-actualization. Simple, elegant, brilliant, and critically important." (Ross Danis, Education Program Director)

"This is clearly one of the most engaging, useful, and deeply relevant books on leading schools in print. A must read for all thoughtful principals and educational leaders." (Kent D. Peterson, Professor, Dept of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis)

`In this inventive 'self-help' handbook for educators, Dennis Sparks, the voice of professional development in our field, offers a compelling message: the power to lead and to learn resides within each of us if we will only summons it forth and live by it. He challenges--and helps us--not to do something but to be something different' - Roland S Barth, Lessons Learned, Corwin Press 2003

Consisting of 26 short, interactive essays to help leaders reflect on change and commit to action, this book pulls together theories and ideas drawn from education, leadership, and philosophy. These essays will be perfect for school leaders to use both individually or in groups to help bridge the 'knowing-doing gap.'