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November 03, 2015

School Design in Action

School Design in Action is a new section of our website that features interactive portraits of schools that are optimizing resources for student success. More »

School Design
May 2011

A Strategic Spending Review of Syracuse City School District

ERS final report summarizing research on the Syracuse City School District (SCSD) and the participative community “work-out” process that was held in response to research results. The... More »

School Design Special Education School Funding School Partners and Community School Support Presentations District Leaders
April, 2013

ERS' Teacher Compensation Workshop

School districts have the responsibility to design a compensation structure that maximizes their ability to meet teacher recruitment and retention goals within the context of long-term... More »

Teaching Professional Learning Presentations Videos
April 2013

Misfit Structures & Lost Opportunities

One out of a series of three ERS publications on teacher compensation, this paper explores how to rethink compensation and career paths to attract and retain the most effective teachers. More »

Teaching Professional Learning Publications
March 20, 2013

Case Studies of Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools

These nine detailed case studies of small urban high schools served as the foundation for ERS’ report Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools. We dubbed... More »

School Design Publications
March 15, 2013

Essential School Practices

Before schools can systematically implement a district’s vision for excellent school practices, district leadership must clearly articulate exactly what school strategies they believe... More »

School Design School Support
March 15, 2013

Freeing School Resources for Learning

Nationwide, districts and states seek to place more accountability for student performance with principals and teachers at the school level. We have found that schools implementing... More »

School Design School Funding
March 13, 2013

Rethinking School Resources

Today’s challenging goals change the job of teaching and the needs for resources. Yet the basic organization of schools looks much the same as it did fifty years ago. This brief presents... More »

School Design
March 13, 2013

Rethinking School System Resources to Create Excellence and Equity

This New American Schools District Issues Brief provides an overview of three challenges related to the use and organization of resources as districts move to create higher performing... More »

School Design School Funding
March 2013

Funding District Story: U-46, Elgin, Illinois

In 2008, the U-46 School District in Illinois faced a budget deficit of $45 million. Instead of deciding to do less with limited funds, the district worked with the school board and... More »

School Funding Presentations Funding & Portfolio
December 19, 2012

School Design Analyses and Worksheets: Section 1

The School Design worksheet series includes worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure effective school design and portfolio management. These analyses... More »

School Design Tools
December 19, 2012

School Design Analyses and Worksheets: Section 2

The School Design worksheet series includes worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure effective school design and portfolio management. These analyses... More »

School Design Tools
December 19, 2012

School Design Analyses and Worksheets: Section 3

The School Design worksheet series includes worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure effective school design and portfolio management. These analyses... More »

School Design Tools
December 19, 2012

School Design Analyses and Worksheets: Section 4

The School Design worksheet series includes worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure effective school design and portfolio management. These analyses... More »

School Design Tools
December 19, 2012

School Design Analyses and Worksheets: Section 5

The School Design worksheet series includes worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure effective school design and portfolio management. These analyses... More »

School Design Tools
December, 2012

Rethinking the Value Proposition to Improve Teaching Effectiveness

One of a series of three publications on rethinking teacher compensation. Rethinking the Value Proposition to Improve Teaching Effectiveness explores the complete set of offerings and... More »

Teaching Professional Learning Publications
November 2012

Strategic Design of Teacher Compensation

This paper explores typical goals of compensation redesign and implications for five main design considerations, including: base salary, district priority incentives, school roles,... More »

Teaching Professional Learning Publications
March 2013

School Design District Story: Denver

To improve student performance, Denver Public Schools (DPS) took an innovative look at how they could support individual school efforts to restructure and align their resources – people,... More »

School Design Presentations Videos
January 17, 2012

Denver Public Schools: ERS Resource Mapping Summary Report

In January 2012, ERS delivered a public presentation to the Denver Public Schools Board of Education which summarized the results and recommendations stemming from of our year-long... More »

School Design School Funding Presentations
December 2011

The Resourceful School: Turning Crisis into Opportunity

The December 2011 Issue of Education Leadership focuses on tough times and strategies for making the most of decreasing budgets. ERS’ Karen Hawley Miles and Naomi Calvo (formerly from... More »

School Design Publications
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
September 2011

Realigning Resources for District Success

After one year of in-depth resource analysis, ERS released a report on Duval County Public Schools (DCPS), Realigning Resources for District Success. The report provides a blueprint for... More »

Leadership School Design School Funding School Support Teaching Presentations
January 2011

Moving Beyond Test Scores

Policymakers and decision-makers around the country are embracing the challenge of improving teaching effectiveness like never before. But much of the current discussion focuses too... More »

School Design Teaching
January 2011

How States Can Support Transformation in Tough Times

With escalating education costs in a time of declining school budgets, ERS articulates for state leaders opportunities to shift scarce funds toward the most critical areas. ERS Executive... More »

School Design School Funding School Support Teaching Presentations State Leaders
October 2010

School Design

The growing urgency to design schools that work, coupled with crippling state and local budget reductions, means it is more important than ever to make investments where it really... More »

School Design Tools Publications
June 20, 2010

Two At-Risk Students

At times, students with similar backgrounds can achieve markedly different results. One student may graduate and go on to college. Another may drop out. In this Slideshare presentation... More »

School Design Presentations
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
March 2010

Fair Student Funding Summit: District Summaries

In March 2010, urban education leaders gathered in Baltimore, MD for the Fair Student Funding Summit, a conference that brought together districts that use weighted student funding (WSF)... More »

School Funding Student-Based Budgeting Publications Funding & Portfolio
2010

Making Strategic Resource Decisions

This chapter of Smart Money: Using Educational Resources to Accomplish Ambitious Learning Goals, edited by Jacob Adams, provides a framework for describing strategic school resource use... More »

School Design School Funding
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 »

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