Tools & Publications

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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
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  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
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  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
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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 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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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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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  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
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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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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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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  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
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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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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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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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  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
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  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
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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