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Presentations Special Education School Partners and Community Teaching Turnaround Funding & Portfolio

March 12, 2019

Weighted Student Funding

ERS has partnered with a number of districts on implementing weighted student funding (WSF), which is also known as fair student funding or student-based budgeting. This presentation... More »

School Funding Student-Based Budgeting Presentations
Toolkit: New Teacher Support

All school and district leaders want to grow their new teachers into effective educators who stay at their schools - yet most feel constrained by limited budgets. But it is possible to... More »

Compensation Leadership Teaching Toolkits
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 01, 2013

How to Facilitate a School Budget Hold’em Session

Education Resource Strategies recently hosted a webinar on how to play the budget trade-off game called School Budget Hold'em. The game lets district leaders, and anyone involved in the... More »

Presentations Videos
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 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
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
March 13, 2013

School Budget Report for School District of Philadelphia: 2008-2009

In the fall of 2007, Education Resource Strategies (ERS) was invited by Philadelphia’s School Reform Commission to conduct a Resource Use Analysis for the School District of Philadelphia... More »

School Funding Presentations
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
March 2013

Leadership District Story: Charlotte

In 2006, Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District made a bold move. It began to strategically staff a subset of its lowest-performing schools with its district’s best principals. Five years... More »

Leadership Presentations Videos
March 2013

Partners District Story: Charlotte-Mecklenburg

Despite success turning around many of its lowest-performing schools, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District found that nine of its schools were still struggling. To improve these... More »

School Partners and Community Presentations Videos
March 2013

Teaching District Story: Washington, D.C.

Over the past decade, D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) has faced severe enrollment decline–from 65,000 students to 45,000. As a result, the district took a hard look at their... More »

Teaching Presentations Videos
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
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
March 2013

School Support District Story: Denver

By transforming its central office from a compliance watchdog to a service and strategic partner, Denver Public Schools (DPS) was able to leverage data, technology, and training to... More »

School Support Presentations Videos
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
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
December 19, 2012

The Teaching Job Analyses and Worksheets: Section 2

The Teaching Job worksheet series includes worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure teaching effectiveness. These analyses can help identify your... More »

Teaching Tools
December 19, 2012

The Teaching Job Analyses and Worksheets: Section 3

The Teaching Job worksheet series includes worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure teaching effectiveness. These analyses can help identify your... More »

Teaching Tools
December 19, 2012

The Teaching Job Analyses and Worksheets: Section 4

The Teaching Job worksheet series includes worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure teaching effectiveness. These analyses can help identify your... More »

Teaching Tools
December 19, 2012

The Teaching Job Analyses and Worksheets: Section 5

The Teaching Job worksheet series includes worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure teaching effectiveness. These analyses can help identify your... More »

Teaching Tools
December 18, 2012

The Teaching Job Analyses and Worksheets: Section 1

The Teaching Job worksheet series includes worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure teaching effectiveness. These analyses can help identify your... More »

Teaching 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
October 2012

Fair Student Funding in Baltimore City

This full report of Baltimore Public Schools (City Schools) explores the implementation process and results of a fair student funding system. Fair Student Funding in Baltimore City (PDF) More »

School Funding Student-Based Budgeting Presentations Publications
September 2012

Fair Student Funding and Other Reforms

After examining Baltimore City Public Schools' implementation of fair student funding and accompanying reforms, ERS shares the extent to which City Schools met the objectives and... More »

School Funding Student-Based Budgeting Presentations Publications
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
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

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