Without Trumpets: Focus on Sustainability to Continue Educational Improvement - Paperback

by Susan G. Allred (Author), Kelly A. Foster (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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.