1-20 of 51 results for “strategic designs”
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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, rewards and responsibilities, and fiscal sustainability. More »
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Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small High Schools
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. Through interviews and reviews of class schedules, staffing strategies, budgets, and... More »
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Act Now to Transform School Systems
Article in PIE
Facing turbulent economic times, school districts instinctively fight to maintain their head above water, trying to minimize the damage being done. What if instead districts and state policy makers took the current tough times to leverage change and transform? This article identifies seven... More »
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Restructuring Compensation and Career Paths
May Issue of School System 20/20 E-news
Our School System 20/20 e-newsletter is a monthly guide for district leaders striving to transform the system. View the May 2013 issue of the School System 20/20 E-news. More »
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April Issue of ERS News
ERS News is a periodic update on our impact through our district work, publications, and press. This is the April 2013 newsletter. More »
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Leveraging Talent, Time, and Money
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 matters. Our work has led to the discovery that the opposite is occurring: We see multiple examples of district... More »
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School Design District Story: Denver
Denver Public Schools Takes Action on Strategic School Design
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, time, and money – to drive student achievement. More »
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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 and the typical sources of resource misalignment. It describes key categories of resource decisions and... More »
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School Design Guide Now Available
We've just released with Ed Week our latest hands-on guide for district leaders: School Design: Leveraging Talent, Time and Money More »
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Make the Most of People, Time, and Money
The first issue of the Strategic School Design e-newsletter
This is the first issue of our Strategic School Design newsletter. We use the term "Strategic School Design" to refer to the deliberate organization of a school's resources—people, time, and money—to increase student achievement and support a schoolwide, instructionally based vision. More »
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The Resourceful School: Turning Crisis into Opportunity
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 ERS, now at Bellevue School District, WA) authored one of the articles that explores how schools are using tough... More »
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Funding District Story: U-46, Elgin, Illinois
Strategic Funding Keeps U-46 Students Front and Center
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 the community to make strategic budget cuts—with students as their priority. By openly communicating and... More »
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Spare Some Change: Smarter District Resource Use for Transformational Schools
A Roadmap for Education Reform
As a part of Pathways to Success for Milwaukee Public Schools, a project of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, the authors identify characteristics of an effective funding system in Milwaukee and beyond. More »
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Leadership District Story: Charlotte
A Great Leader in Every School
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 later, 27 schools have truly turned around–double-digit student performance gains, teachers working together... More »
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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 these nine schools “leading edge schools” because they stand apart from other high schools across the country in... More »
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A Tool for Aligning Resources in Lean Times
A new guide in Education Resource Strategies’ series Practical Tools for District Transformation looks at district operations and practices that perpetuate traditional school structures, creating barriers to innovative schools that can meet the unique needs of particular students. These... More »
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ERS has partnered with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) to analyze the effectiveness and equity of school-level resource use and to help the district advance its 2014 strategic plan. "We propose to transform our use of resources. We will better align our people, time, and money with our... More »
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We applaud schools of any size that have made significant progress and have raised graduation rates to new heights. If you’re developing or supporting small schools, ERS has a set of tools and resources that should help with your planning. More »
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Austin Independent School District
ERS has partnered with Austin (AISD) to map resource use and to support the development of a new funding system. More »
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District Strategies for Success and Sustainability
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 match resources and support to meet those needs. Your challenge is to develop district capacity to address... More »