Susan G. Allred, Kelly A. Foster

Without Trumpets (eBook, ePUB)

Focus on Sustainability to Continue Educational Improvement

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475859386
• Artikelnr.: 61903543

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Forward- 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
Chapter 1: A Perspective on Status of Low Performing Schools Intervention
Chapter 2: The Empowering Information and Data
Mass Insight
District 180 School Data
TELL Survey
National Recognition
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
Chapter 5: From Theory into Action - Two Stories
Part III. Strategies and Tools to Empower for Sustainability
Chapter 6: State Strategies and Support
Technology Platform
Diagnostic Review Process
Alignment of Federal/State Laws and Regulations with Requirements
30-60-90 Day Planning
The Art of System Questioning/Data Questions
Professional Learning Communities
Use of PDSA Improvement Process
Special Two-Way Partnerships
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
A small rural high school and a district without capacity to support it
Two rural school districts with re-starts
A large urban traditional high school
The largest district in the state with the most priority schools
Chapter 9: Lessons Learned with Continued Challenges
Appendices
Sustainability Plan Example30-60-90 Day Plan Example A Guide for Using the
Data QuestionsPLC Tools/TemplatesPDSA Examples-State multi-year, District
and templateQuality tools-plus/delta and linkage examplesHUB School
informationGlossary: The Letters Unscrambled
Bibliography
About the Authors