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Publications Videos Special Education Compensation Toolkits ERS in California

August 2019

Toolkit: What is Student-Based Budgeting and how can it drive student learning?

Toolkits ERS in California
Toolkit: Guidance for New Superintendents

Toolkits
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
April 2017

Connected Professional Learning for Teachers

Teachers need more support to meet the demands of college and career ready standards. Where can schools systems find the money, staff, and time to provide truly transformational... More »

Compensation Publications District Leaders School Leaders ERS in California
May 14, 2015

Back from the Brink: A Case Study of Lawrence Public Schools

In 2011, Lawrence Public Schools was the first district that Massachusetts placed into state receivership due to poor performance. By 2014, things had dramatically changed for the better.... More »

ERS in California
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
May 2013

Video: Strategic Resources in Action

Vidalia City Schools is one shining example of a district that strategically leverages its people, time, and money in the face of low funding levels and has seen steady growth in... More »

Videos
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 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 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 12, 2013

VUE: Voices in Urban Education

The Annenberg Institute for School Reform’s Voices in Urban Education publication, produced in partnership with ERS, grew from the ERS-convened Fair Student Funding Summit in March 2010.... More »

School Funding Student-Based Budgeting Publications
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

Videos: District Stories

ERS spoke with five leaders from our partner districts to explore what transformation really looks like in practice. The videos explore how each of the seven strategies from our School... More »

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

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
January 2013

One Vision, Seven Strategies

One Vision, Seven Strategies is the culmination of ERS' deep experience working with school systems around the country. It presents our vision for transforming school systems and why... More »

Publications
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

Transform Now Video

Our new video illustrates why now is the time to take bold action to transform our school systems. Please share it and join the movement of district leaders dedicated to transforming... More »

Videos
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
April 18, 2012

School Budget Hold'em Facilitator's Guide

These easy-to-use instructions will help leaders organize and play School Budget Hold'em as a group. The Facilitator's Guide provides three different approaches for playing the game based... More »

Tools 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
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

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