For more than three decades, Andy Plattner has helped clients listen to key audiences, craft clear, effective messages and become better messengers. He works with clients to build public awareness for important issues and move policy makers, education leaders and buyers to action.
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 served as the first communications director at the National Center on Education and the Economy where he helped key leaders talk about the importance of much better schools while bringing the public’s voice into the development of rigorous academic standards and high-quality 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.
Andy lives outside of Annapolis, Maryland, and is married to Linda Plattner. They have five children and eleven grandchildren. He is a persistent athlete, working to hit golf balls in the fairway and stay on his skates in ice hockey, which he started playing in his second childhood.