Building Learning Capacity in an Age of Uncertainty

This practical guide for school leaders explores how capacity as learning at the individual, team, and organizational level can help schools become more agile and adaptive. The tools in this timely book are designed to help school leaders handle the increasing volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world in which schools now exist.

James A. Bailey is a former elementary and high school principal, assistant superintendent, superintendent, and turnaround leader. He is currently a school improvement consultant and leadership coach at Brass Tacks Innovations, and serves as a faculty member at Walden University, USA.

1: Complexity, Agility, and Capacity; 2: A New Model of Capacity for Learning; 3: Capacity as Organizational Learning Processes; 4: Capacity as Organizational Conditions; 5: Capacity as Individual Skills and Beliefs; 6: Capacity as Effective Teaming; 7: Leading for Capacity Development; 8: Back to the Future