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.
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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