Tools & Publications

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  March 18, 2013

  Standards District Story: Washington, D.C.

  Ten years ago, D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) had 65,000 students. Today it has fewer than 45,000. The severe enrollment decline was a wake-up call for the district. Starting in 2007, DCPS... More »

  Standards and Curricula Presentations Videos
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  March 14, 2013

  Turnaround Case Studies

  “Turnaround Case Studies” is an analysis of strategies to turn around low-performing schools undertaken by six large urban districts and four education management organizations. These... More »

  Turnaround Presentations
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  March 12, 2013

  Sustaining Turnaround at Scale Summit: Posters

  View the posters that compare the turnaround strategies of the districts that attended Education Resource Strategies’ Sustaining Turnaround at Scale Summit held in October 2011. ERS held... More »

  Turnaround
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  March 2013

  Why Now?

  Hear from: Sam Franklin, Executive Director of the Office of Teacher Effectiveness, Pittsburgh Public Schools Brian Pick, Deputy Chief Academic Officer, D.C. Public Schools Alyssa... More »

  Leadership School Partners and Community School Support Standards and Curricula Videos
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  February 28, 2013

  School System 20/20 Infographic

    The School System 20/20 infographic lets you see the possibilities for system transformation through ERS' seven-strategy framework. It illustrates the challenges to reallocating... More »

  Leadership School Partners and Community School Support Standards and Curricula Tools
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  January 28, 2013

  Resource Check™

  This web-based tool is designed to help you dive into the transformational strategies that lead to better resource use. Resource Check is a questionaire that tallies and analyzes your... More »

  Leadership School Partners and Community School Support Standards and Curricula Tools
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  March 15, 2012

  Sustaining Turnaround at Scale Summit Briefs

  This series compiles and analyzes the results of our Sustaining Turnaround at Scale Summit held in October 2011. More »

  Turnaround Publications
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  October 2011

  Transformation or decline?

  Tough times provide school districts with the opportunity to make big changes, helping alleviate the budget pressure in the short term and create a new foundation that will provide the... More »

  Leadership School Design Special Education School Funding School Partners and Community School Support Standards and Curricula Teaching Publications
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  October 2011

  Sustaining Turnaround at Scale Summit: Session Summaries

  View the session summaries from ERS’ Sustaining Turnaround at Scale Summit held in October 2011. A major effort is underway in school districts across the country to improve the academic... More »

  Turnaround
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  October 2011

  Sustaining Turnaround at Scale Summit: Videos

  View videos from ERS’ Sustaining Turnaround at Scale Summit held in October 2011. Panelists from the ERS Summit share some thoughts on successful turnaround. Panelists on the closing... More »

  Turnaround Videos
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  March 2011

  Video: Turnaround in Action

  See how two schools in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (NC)–winner of the prestigious 2011 Broad Prize for Urban Education–are approaching turnaround. Both schools are achieving... More »

  Turnaround Videos
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  January 2011

  Turning Around the Nation’s Lowest Performing Schools

  Across the country, states and school districts are focusing on turning around the nation’s lowest-performing schools. This focus on school turnaround, while welcome, is not new. And... More »

  School Support Turnaround Publications
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  September 2010

  Turnaround Schools

  Turnaround efforts at individual schools will not result in widespread, sustainable change without fundamental shifts in the way districts evaluate school, student, and teacher needs and... More »

  School Support Turnaround Tools
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  April 2010

  Breaking the Cycle of Failure in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools

  In this case study of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Strategic Staffing Initiative, Education Resource Strategies (ERS) and the Aspen Institute tell the important story of how one district is... More »

  School Design School Support Turnaround Presentations Publications
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  November 2009

  Are You Getting the Most Out of Your ARRA Spending?

  These are tough times for schools and districts, and they will get tougher. Federal stimulus funds have created some breathing room, but unless districts use these funds to plan for and... More »

  School Design School Funding School Support Standards and Curricula Teaching
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  April 2009

  Realigning Resources for District Transformation

  This paper, written with the Center for American Progress, gives state and district leaders 15 concrete ways to use all resources—current and new—for long-term transformation. More »

  Leadership School Design School Funding School Partners and Community School Support Standards and Curricula Teaching Publications
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  March 2009

  Continuing to Improve Teaching Quality During Tough Economic Times

  ERS Director Regis Shields presented at EdWeek’s webinar, “Creating Effective Teacher Professional Development in Tough Economic Times.” To turn tough times into opportunity, districts... More »

  Standards and Curricula Teaching Videos
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  2004

  Becoming a Capable and Accountable System

  In 2003–2004, ERS and the Annenberg Institute for School Reform analyzed how Baltimore City Public School System utilizes its professional development resources and examined the alignment... More »

  Standards and Curricula Teaching
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  2004

  Inside the Black Box of Professional Development Spending

  Standards-based reform has entered a new phase that puts professional development of teachers at the center of the discussion. Research tells us that intensive, high-quality professional... More »

  Standards and Curricula Teaching Professional Learning
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  August 01, 2003

  Chicago Public Schools Professional Development Project

  This project began as a result of a concern about how to strengthen the professional development of teachers and leaders throughout the Chicago Public Schools. Leaders of the district as... More »

  Standards and Curricula Teaching Professional Learning Presentations Publications School Leaders
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  May 2001

  Getting to the Heart of School Improvement

  Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) is now four years into implementing Student’s First, a powerful strategic plan for improving student performance. This report, requested by Superintendent... More »

  Standards and Curricula Teaching Presentations
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  2000

  Reinvesting in Teachers

  ERS with New American Schools, primary support from the Pew Charitable Trusts, has partnered with one or two reform-minded districts each year for three years to analyze spending on... More »

  Standards and Curricula Teaching
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  December 1999

  Professional Development Spending in the Boston Public Schools

  ERS supported Boston Public Schools and the Boston Plan for Excellence-Boston Annenberg Challenge in conducting an in-depth analysis of the district’s existing professional development... More »

  Standards and Curricula Teaching Professional Learning Presentations