For more than two decades, Andy Plattner has helped clients ‘listen’ to key audiences, craft clear, effective messages, and develop realistic strategies to sustain public support for better schools. He works with clients to build public awareness for important issues and move policy makers to action.
When necessary, Plattner pulls together teams of outstanding communicators and public affairs specialists to satisfy the needs of clients.
Plattner co-founded KSA-Plus Communications, a national communications company. He has written a variety of well received reports, including several examining how the public feels about schools, standards and accountability and about the teaching profession. He often provides crisis communications assistance to clients in the midst of turmoil.
Plattner, 61, served as a senior consultant to the National Center on Education and the Economy in Washington, DC, where he helped bring the public’s voice into the development of rigorous academic standards and tests.
Plattner has worked on education issues since 1990. Before that he spent 18 years as a journalist covering politics, the last several of those years with U.S. News & World Report.
He lives outside of Annapolis, Maryland, and is married to Linda Plattner, president of Strategic Teaching. They have five children and five grandchildren. He is a persistent athlete, struggling to hit golf balls in the fairway and stay on his skates in ice hockey, which he started playing at 48.