From the Book - Regular Print
Clarify your fundamental choices, values, and purposes
Create successful schools
Identify multiple ways to achieve your goals
Promote breakthrough thinking
Develop a theory of action and use storytelling to communicate it
Gain clarity through writing, speaking, and reflecting on action
Listen to others in a deep, committed way
Make requests to initiate action and create results
Replace questions with declarative statements
Minimize the language of obligation
Decrease the use of cause-effect language
Stand up for your point of view
Design powerful professional learning for all educators
Match professional development goals and methods with student outcomes
Bridge the knowing-doing gap
Appeal to the heart as well as the head
Amplify positive deviance in schools
Shape school culture to improve teaching and sustain competent teachers
Install next action thinking
Sustain the conversation.
