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