Without Trumpets

Focus on Sustainability to Continue Educational Improvement

Susan G. Allred, Kelly A. Foster

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2021
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9781475859386
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Education as an institution is vital to transmitting the culture. Educational institutions exemplify how organizations can be responsive to its stakeholders and its vision while meeting the needs of the students it serves. Building sustainable systems to conduct the work of education is essential, can be done, and is being done. Without Trumpets 2nd edition updates the work and how continuous improvement has scaled and spread from the original 10 schools to additional states through application. In this book, SusanG. Allred and Kelly Foster have provided the experiences that Kentucky educators, policy makers, and communities had throughout the most recent school turnaround era. New for the second edition of this book is a section of interviews about how to find continuous improvement leadership.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• PART I: A NATIONAL CONTEXT AND HOW SUSTAINABILITY CAN BE BUILT AND MEASURED: THE EMPOWERING DATA AND INFORMATION
• PART II: THE KENTUCKY REALITY OF DESIGNING, DEPLOYING, AND MONITORING SYSTEMS
• PART III: TOOLS AND PROCESSES TO EMPOWER AND BUILD SUSTAINABILITY
• PART IV: CASE STUDIES AND LESSONS LEARNED WITH CONTINUED CHALLENGES
• Appendix A: LCHS Sustainability Plan
• Appendix B: 30-60-90 Day Plan
• Appendix C: A Guide for Using the Data Questions
• Appendices D–G
• The Glossary Unscrambled
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Authors