Creating Talent Density
Accelerating Adult Learning
1st Edition
Published on 15. August 2021
148 pages
978-1-4758-6199-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a culmination of many educational and business practices to accelerate and distribute learning throughout the organization. You will find twenty-five strategies to assess the ability and willingness of individuals and the school. This book will save leaders time by providing examples and a guide to implement processes to increase learning. The more talent schools have, the more students will learn. The future will require more learning and more ways to acquire that learning. These practical strategies can be used with individual staff members as well as groups of any size. These facilitation skills are already in use. Let's learn, adapt, and take positive action to increase learning.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-1-4758-6199-0 (9781475861990)
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Book
08/2021
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Person
William A. Sommers, PhD, is the former executive director for secondary curriculum and professional learning for Minneapolis Public Schools and has been a school administrator for over 35 years. He has been a senior fellow for the Urban Leadership Academy at the University of Minnesota and has served as an adjunct faculty member at multiple universities. In addition, he has been a program director for an adolescent chemical dependency treatment center and on the advisory board of a halfway house for 20 years.
Content
Foreword
Preface - What is Talent Density? Why Adult Learning?
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Why this book?
Chapter 1 - Foundational Content, Adult Development
Chapter 2 - Situational Leadership - Assessing Readiness Levels of Individuals and groups
Chapter 3 - Not Able, Not Willing
Chapter 4 - Not Able, Are Willing
Chapter 5 - Are Able, Not Willing
Chapter 6 - Able and Willing - Learning Omnivores
Chapter 7 - The Fifth Quadrant - Extreme People Development
Conclusion - Now What?
Appendix
About the Author
Preface - What is Talent Density? Why Adult Learning?
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Why this book?
Chapter 1 - Foundational Content, Adult Development
Chapter 2 - Situational Leadership - Assessing Readiness Levels of Individuals and groups
Chapter 3 - Not Able, Not Willing
Chapter 4 - Not Able, Are Willing
Chapter 5 - Are Able, Not Willing
Chapter 6 - Able and Willing - Learning Omnivores
Chapter 7 - The Fifth Quadrant - Extreme People Development
Conclusion - Now What?
Appendix
About the Author
