About Us
Mission-Driven. Student-Centered. Dedicated to Transformation.
Who We Are
We’re a team of educators, data scientists, strategists, writers, consultants, and education experts committed to one thing: Ensuring every student in every school has access to the resources they need to succeed.
Our Mission
We empower school system leaders to make transformative shifts in resources, structures, and practices so that all students—especially those with the greatest learning needs and those furthest from opportunity—attend a school where they can learn and thrive. We partner with district teams, expand leaders’ knowledge and skills, and share lessons and tools with the field.
We’re Revitalizing Education For:
Students
We envision school systems in which all students have positive learning environments, caring relationships with their teachers, and high-quality instruction at every grade level.
Teachers
We envision school systems in which all teachers have differentiated career pathways, compensation opportunities, access to professional development, and sustainable workloads.
School Systems
We envision school systems that mobilize resources in financially sustainable ways to advance excellence and opportunity for all students and teachers.
Our Values
IMPACT
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Potential for lasting impact guides our work and priorities. We accelerate our impact by leveraging research and building from the experience and expertise of the ERS team and our school system partners.
SERVICE
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We approach our work with humility, respect, and an acknowledgment of the broader context we’re stepping into. We center the wisdom of those closest to the challenge. We accept responsibility of sharing challenging insights to advance excellence and opportunity for all.
TEAMWORK
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We collaborate in and across teams to maximize impact. We organize to optimize our time and create inclusive spaces that honor our diverse knowledge, skills, perspectives, and lived experiences to ensure that together, we are greater than the sum of our parts.
PEOPLE FIRST
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We engage with each other as people first, valuing each other’s contributions, identities, and lived experiences in service of our mission. We prioritize work-life balance and flexibility as foundational to sustaining our energy and maximizing our collective impact.
LEARNING
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We learn from every experience. We organize to capture and share our learning with each other and our partners in the field. We invest in practices and relationships that enable us to approach our work with curiosity and openness to new understanding, approaches, and feedback.
Learn More About ERS
Since 2005, we’ve been partnering with school, district, and state leaders to design and implement strategic resource shifts to create effective strategic plans, drive financial sustainability, better support educators, and design structures that meet student needs.
Our Services
Explore our approach to enhancing district strategy, school design, human capital strategy, and more essential elements of high-performing systems.
Our Work With Districts
Learn how we support districts by analyzing resource use, designing effective strategies, and guiding teams through implementation and beyond.
Our Work With States
Read about how we partner with state leaders across the country to promote innovation and ensure districts have exactly what they need to thrive.
Our Impact
Discover how our work has helped transform education for more than 100 districts and states across the country.