School Design:
Leveraging Talent, Time, and Money
ERS, October 2010
See how to align your resources with strategic school designs across your district.
Entries tagged with: Academic Time
The Strategic School:
Making the Most of People, Time, and Money
by Karen Hawley Miles and Stephen Frank
Corwin Press 2008
Learn how schools can best use the resources they already have.
Case Studies of Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools
Read the nine detailed case studies that helped inform the report: Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools.
Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small High Schools
by Regis Anne Shields and Karen Hawley Miles
ERS, 2008
This report illustrates how nine high performing, small urban high schools across the U.S. are thinking about and organizing their resources strategically to best meet their students’ most pressing needs.
Time & Attention in Urban High Schools:
Lessons for Urban School Systems
by Stephen Frank
ERS, April 2010
ERS, with the National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL), released a paper that doucments how six urban school districts structure time compared to nine Leading Edge high schools.
Five Case Studies on Revising School Schedules
by Regis Shields
New American Schools, 2005
This article provides examples for principals and school leaders of approaches by five K-8 schools in Boston and Cincinnati that have reorganized schedules to allow for common planning time and literacy blocks.
