What we do in our District Partnerships:

• Analyze Resources: With our Strategic Resource Map, we analyze budget, staffing, scheduling, and student performance data to understand how system enabling conditions and resources currently align with district goals as well as best practice. For a lighter touch, we provide a Strategic Resource Snapshot. These processes allow us to analyze data and make comparisons with districts across the country in ways that no other organization shed light on previously unrecognized resource opportunities.
• Design Strategies: Drawing on our Strategic Resource Map and Snapshot, our comparative database, experience with other districts, and current research, we identify where and how to shift resources to better align student and teacher needs to district goals. For example, our School Design Innovation Project is a three-year district collaboration that helps define repeatable, high-quality school-level systems, structures, and routines—and the resource allocation decisions that follow them.
• Support Implementation: We provide planning and analytic support to district teams as they turn new strategies into reality in the areas of school design, teaching, leadership, funding & portfolio, and school support & accountability. For example, we help implement Student-Based Budgeting systems and Equity Metrics Reports for districts.

For information on working with ERS, contact Jonathan Travers