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.

Susan G. Allred, EdS, has taught in public middle and high schools for twenty years and was an administrator for twenty-three years at the school, district, and state levels in NC, SC, and KY.

Kelly A. Foster, EdD, is a Kentucky native who after years teaching and administrating in schools and districts, is now an associate commissioner at the Kentucky Department of Education.

Foreword Terry K. Holliday, PhD former Kentucky Commissioner of Education

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I. A National Context and How Sustainability Can Be Built and Measured: The Empowering Data and Information

Chapter 1: A Perspective on Status of Low Performing Schools Intervention

Chapter 2: The Empowering Information and Data

Part II. The Kentucky Reality of Designing, Deploying and Monitoring Systems

Chapter 3: The Backstory: State Legislation

Chapter 4: Needs Assessment, Research, Visionary Leadership, a Plan A Research Theory for the Design of District 180

Chapter 5: From Theory into Action: Two Stories about How Educators Work

Part III. Strategies and Tools to Empower for Sustainability

Chapter 6: State Strategies and Support

Chapter 7: Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement Through Application of Quality Tools

Part IV. Case Studies and Lessons Learned with Continued Challenges

Chapter 8: Case Studies

Chapter 9: Lessons Learned with Continued Challenges

Chapter 10: Continuous Improvement Leadership, Is It Possible to Find?

Appendices

Glossary: The Letters Unscrambled

Bibliography

About the Authors