Turnaround Summit Video
Videos from the ERS Summit, Sustaining Turnaround at Scale.
Entries tagged with: Human Capital
Sustaining Turnaround at Scale - Session Summaries
A brief description of every panel presentation from the ERS Summit, Sustaining Turnaround at Scale.
Memphis White Paper:
Learning When to Hold'em and When to Fold'em
ERS, October 27, 2010
If your school district is facing a budget issue, it might surprise you to learn that the solution might very well lie in a game of cards. That certainly was the case earlier this year for the city schools of Memphis, Tennessee.
Act Now to Transform School Systems
by Karen Hawley Miles and Karen Baroody
PIE Network, September 2011
This article identifies seven priorities that could help districts invest in transformation. It then reviews the barriers that prevent change and the steps state policy makers can take to overcome the barriers.
Video: Turnaround in Action
ERS, March 2011
See how two schools in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, NC district are approaching turnaround.
Seven Strategies for District Transformation
ERS, September 2010
Learn about the seven key strategies for districts to improve student performance at scale.
The Teaching Job:
Restructuring for Effectiveness
ERS, December 2010
Take action to improve teaching and learning across your district’s schools.
School Design:
Leveraging Talent, Time, and Money
ERS, October 2010
See how to align your resources with strategic school designs across your district.
Turnaround Schools:
District Strategies for Success and Sustainability
ERS, September 2010
Help ensure that efforts to turnaround the worst performing schools lead to sustainable improvement for the students.
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.
VUE: Voices in Urban Education:
Fall, 2010, Student-Based Budgeting
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. The summit brought together more than sixty urban education leaders from fourteen school districts that use student-based budgeting. The issues explores student based…
ResourceCheck™ Tool:
Assess your District’s Resource Use
ERS, July 2010
Take an online self-assessment to learn how your district’s resource use measures up to best practice.
Strategic Professional Development Review
by Regis Anne Shields and Karen Hawley Miles
Harvard Education Press, 2009
Before district leaders can expand professional development to better support teachers, they must first determine not only the current investment level but also what that investment is buying. This chapter, from A Grand Bargain for Education Reform edited by Theodore Hershberg and Claire Robertson-Kraft, details…
Teaching Quality Brief
ERS, 2009
This brief describes a vision for investing in teaching quality at the school level and provides guiding questions.
Continuing to Improve Teaching Quality During Tough Economic Times
by ERS
WEBINAR for Education Week, March 26, 2009
ERS’ Regis Shields presented at EdWeek’s webinar, “Creating Effective Teacher Professional Development in Tough Economic Times”
Teacher Layoffs Discussed by CMS
by Ann Doss Helms
The Charlotte Observer, January 13, 2010
As board launches budget talks, consultant suggests Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools increase class size or cut some electives.
Realigning Resources for District Transformation:
Using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Funds to Advance a Strategic Education Reform Agenda
Center for American Progress and Education Resource Strategies, April 2009
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.
Strategic Professional Development Review of the School District of Philadelphia
ERS, 2008
Prepared by Education Resource Strategies, this report reviews the School District of Philadelphia’s (SDP) use of professional development resources. Despite Philadelphia’s low and unstable funding of professional development, ERS identifies ten opportunities SDP has to improve its teaching quality and leadership capacity. Most importantly, SDP needs to create an adequately…
Finding School Leaders
Baltimore Sun Opinion, December 17, 2007
One key ingredient of school reform is leadership, and that generally comes from principals. Last week, Advocates for Children and Youth, a Baltimorebased group, documented the correlation between inexperienced principals and poorly performing schools in Maryland, a correlation that is also tied to poverty.
Since many of these inadequately led,…
How Much Should Schools Pay for Teachers
by Ahluwalia, Mallika
Catalyst Chicago, December, 2005
A new budget system could shift the mix of inexperienced and veteran teachers at some schools.
Three New School Principals Buy ‘Almost Everything We Want’:
Non-charters try out a new, arguably more equitable budgeting system that CPS plans to take districtwide in a few years
by Mallika Ahluwalia
Catalyst Chicago, November, 2005
Non-charters try out new, arguably more equitable budgeting system that CPS plans to take districtwide in a few years.
Becoming a Capable and Accountable System:
A Review of Professional Development and Curriculum in the Baltimore City Public School System
ERS & Annenberg Institute for School Reform, 2004
Prepared by Education Resource Strategies and the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, This report reviews BCPSS’s use of professional development resources and identifies areas for investment as part of a state-specified audit for improving the district’s operations and performance.
Inside the Black Box of Professional Development Spending:
Lessons from Comparing Five Urban Districts
by Karen Hawley Miles, A. Odden, M. Fermanich, S. Archibald, and A. Gallagher
Journal of Education Finance, Summer 2004 Volume 30, Issue 1, pgs. 1-26
The Big Picture: District Professional Development Strategy
by Karen Hawley Miles
Staff Development Journal, Summer 2003
Good professional development is not the same thing as a good professional development strategy. The analysis looks at creating a powerful professional development plan that touches on every aspect of school and district organization.
Rethinking District Professional Development Spending to Support School Improvement:
Lessons from Comparative Spending Analysis
by Karen Hawley Miles
American Education Finance Association, January 2003
Draft of chapter for American Education Finance Association 2003 Yearbook School Finance and Teacher Quality: Exploring the Connections.
Chicago Public Schools Professional Development Project
ERS, 2002
A study of Chicago district Public Schools and tools for aligning professional development to student achievement. Published in partnership with Education Resource Strategies, 2002
Boston Shifts Training Funds in Wake of Audit Surprises
by Maureen Kelleher
Catalyst Chicago, June 2002
Getting to the Heart of School Improvement:
Integrating Professional Development Spending in the Cincinati Public Schools
by Karen Hawley Miles and Matthew Hornbeck
ERS, 2001
After four years of implementing Student’s First, a powerful strategic plan for improving student performance, the Cincinnati Public School System has put structures in place to encourage district wide improvement.
Reinvesting in Teachers:
Aligning District Professional Development to Support a Strategy of Comprehensive School Reform
by Karen Hawley Miles and Matthew Hornbeck
New American Schools, 2000
This article explores options for rethinking how best to support teachers and schools in meeting higher standards.
Professional Development Spending in the Boston Public Schools:
A Joint Report of the Boston Plan for Excellence and the Boston Public Schools
by Karen Hawley Miles, 1999
ERS performed a repeat analysis in 2001 which showed resources being used in much more focused, integrated ways to support the district wide professional development strategy. An additional Professional Development audit, performed by Rachel Curtis, Associate Superintendent for Teaching and Learning, using the ERS coding scheme, has resulted in recommendations…
