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Student-Based Budgeting Teaching Professional Learning Compensation State Leaders COVID-19

July 30, 2020

The Economics of Transitioning from Remote to In-Person School

September 2021 UpdateOur Schools Start Here series of guides and ESSER Strategy Planner & Spending Calcuator dives into the resource side of ESSER strategy and planning - including... More »

Publications COVID-19 District Leaders School Leaders School Design
June 18, 2020

District Re-Entry Models: Key Trade-Offs Calculator

Supporting a high-level, district-wide assessment of re-entry plan feasibility More »

COVID-19
Updated June 18, 2020

ERS Briefing: Decision Points for COVID Comeback Models

Everyone agrees that school in the fall cannot look the same as it did before the pandemic. Education leaders must organize people, time, and money to make up for learning losses, help... More »

Publications District Leaders COVID-19 School Leaders School Design
May 27, 2020

ERS Briefing: Capturing FY20 Savings (or Not) in School Districts

In the wake of COVID-19, school systems face a daunting set of challenges as they plan for the 2020-2021 school year — including meeting students’ increased academic and social-emotional... More »

COVID-19
February 18, 2020

ERS Briefing: Opportunities Abound

Read the Briefing The 2019 Student Opportunity Act creates a once-in-a-generation moment for Massachusetts students: the Commonwealth has committed $1.5 billion dollars over seven... More »

Publications Funding & Portfolio State Leaders
October 2, 2019

State Education Funding: The Poverty Equation

Originally published on FutureEd. The correlation between socioeconomic status and academic achievement doesn't just apply to individual students—the concentration of poverty in... More »

Publications Equity State Leaders
Districts at Work: Tulsa Tales Mini-Podcast

Real stories from real districts: How Tulsa Public Schools supported professional development for teachers — on a budget More »

Presentations Videos District Leaders Professional Learning Funding & Portfolio School Leaders School Design Leadership
Education Resource Strategies, April 9, 2019

Districts at Work

Profiles of eight school systems transforming how the central office supports schools, and seeing student results More »

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Toolkit: New Teacher Support

All school and district leaders want to grow their new teachers into effective educators who stay at their schools - yet most feel constrained by limited budgets. But it is possible to... More »

District Leaders Professional Learning Teaching Toolkits
January 2019

Transforming School Funding: A Guide to Implementing Student-Based Budgeting

Student-Based Budgeting (SBB) allocates dollars based on enrollment and student need. In this blog, you will find tools and key elements for decision making as you consider SBB for your... More »

District Leaders Equity Funding & Portfolio Student-Based Budgeting
December 2018

The Strategic System Snapshot | Mini

A 10-minute self-assessment tool that helps district leaders and others identify which of your strategies are likely to lead to student success—and where there are opportunities to improve. More »

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Growing Great Teachers: New Strategies to Support New Teachers

Every year, school districts welcome—and then lose—thousands of promising new teachers. For too many, the job is overwhelming, which can lead to teacher shortage in schools. How can we... More »

District Leaders Professional Learning Teaching
November 08, 2018

Resource Equity: A Primer for State Boards of Education

At the 2018 NASBE annual conference, Karen Hawley Miles presented on Strategies to Foster Resource Equity to an audience of about 100 state leaders More »

Equity State Leaders States
August 2018

Weighted Student Funding

Weighted Student Funding has become a popular initiative for district leaders who seek to allocate scarce resources to schools, especially in the face of stubborn achievement gaps,... More »

Funding & Portfolio Student-Based Budgeting Toolkits
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Toolkit: What is Student-Based Budgeting? How can it drive student learning?

SBB is a funding system whereby dollars follow students based on student need, and can help increase funding transparency, equity, and flexibility. More »

Equity District Leaders Funding & Portfolio Student-Based Budgeting Toolkits
June 2018

Low Teacher Salaries 101

In 40 states, the real value of teacher salaries declined from 2010 to 2015. How we got here, why it matters, and how we can pay teachers fairly and strategically. More »

Compensation District Leaders State Leaders
June 05, 2018

Addressing the Teacher Labor Market Challenge in Arizona

Arizona spends less on K-12 education than almost every other state. But adding resources on top of the current system is likely an ineffective solution. More »

Presentations ESSA Equity State Leaders
March 28, 2018

Shared-Content Teaching Teams Prototype

Teacher teams are one of the most important strategies to promote teacher growth and ignite student learning—if done well. But how to make this crucial time as effective as possible? The... More »

Publications Professional Learning School Leaders School Design Teaching
March 6, 2018

Toolkit: Advancing Equitable School Funding under ESSA

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) gives states new financial transparency tools to better understand and become leaders for resource equity, but only if they are used well. These... More »

Presentations ESSA State Leaders States
February 01, 2018

Rigorous, Comprehensive Curricula and Assessments in Louisiana

ERS studied school systems and states with improving student outcomes to learn best practices for teacher professional learning. We observed that these organizations connected... More »

Professional Learning Teaching
January 19, 2018

Finding Time for Collaborative Planning

We share six practical strategies that schools can use to find more time for collaborative planning, using the resources they have today. More »

District Leaders Professional Learning
August 15, 2017

Professional Learning Diagnostic Tool

How can your school system better connect professional learning to the everyday work of teaching—and to a systemwide strategy for student success? We studied four school systems that... More »

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Education Resource Strategies

School Check

This school assessment tool is based on resource strategies and principles from “The Strategic School: Making the Most of People, Time, and Money” by Karen Hawley Miles and Stephen Frank.... More »

Tools School Leaders School Design Teaching
May 2017

It Takes a System: A Case Study of Denver Public Schools (DPS)

Over the last decade, Denver Public Schools (DPS) became one of the fastest-improving large districts in the country—achieving significant improvement across all student subgroups. Unlike... More »

Publications Special Education Compensation District Leaders Professional Learning Funding & Portfolio Student-Based Budgeting School Leaders School Design Teaching Leadership School Support & Accountability Turnaround
April 2017

Toolkit: Connected Professional Learning for Teachers

We studied 4 school systems that redesigned their approach to PL and have seen inspiring student growth. Their models are highly "connected" to what teachers do every day. More »

Professional Learning Teaching Toolkits
Karen Hawley Miles, David Rosenberg, and Genevieve Quist Green

Igniting the Learning Engine

How school systems accelerate teacher effectiveness and student growth through Connected Professional Learning More »

Publications District Leaders Professional Learning
November 10, 2016

ERS Comments on ESSA Supplement, Not Supplant Regulation

Our comments target strategies that promote both equity and excellence—in other words, how many resources schools receive and how well they use them. We argue that while it is indeed... More »

ESSA Publications State Leaders
October 2016

Building a Talent Decision Map for K-12 Human Capital

School systems can empower all principals to be strategic talent managers—by mapping out the what, who, when, and how, and organizing data, support, and timelines around the most critical... More »

Publications District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders Teaching
October 06, 2016

ESSA Financial Reporting Requirement

Under ESSA, districts must report per-pupil spending at the LEA and school level using actual salary data. This new level of financial transparency aims to promote equity across schools.... More »

ESSA Publications District Leaders State Leaders
September 2016

7 Tenets for Sustainable School Turnaround

A collaboration between Center for American Progress and Education Resource Strategies on the 7 tenets for states to empower districts to become agents of change in school turnaround. More »

Publications ESSA State Leaders Turnaround

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