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October 2017

Budget Hold’em for Districts

Budget Hold'em for Schools is more than a game, it’s an interactive exploration of the thoughtful trade-offs school administrators have to make in these challenging budget times. More »

Tools District Leaders
March 23, 2013

DREAM

You can do less with less, or you can change your district's cost model by rethinking how schools and systems are structured. DREAM allows you to adjust key cost levers in your district... More »

Leadership School Support Tools
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 18, 2013

School Funding Systems Analyses and Worksheets: Section 1

The School Funding System worksheet series includes analysis sheets on the spending variation per pupil and worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure... More »

School Funding Tools
March 18, 2013

School Funding Systems Analyses and Worksheets: Section 2

The School Funding System worksheet series includes analysis sheets on the spending variation per pupil and worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure... More »

School Funding Tools
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
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

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 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
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
November 2011

School Budget Hold’em

School Budget Hold'em is more than a game, it’s an interactive exploration of the thoughtful trade-offs school administrators have to make in these challenging budget times. More »

School Funding Tools
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
December 2010

The Teaching Job

Recent work on improving teaching effectiveness has focused on preparing and hiring better teachers and on identifying and removing the lowest-performing teachers. These efforts are... More »

Teaching Tools Publications
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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