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Community Engagement Teaching District Leaders Explore

March 16, 2016

Revere High School Adopts Co-Teaching Model to Better Support Students with Disabilities [Video]

Revere High School—located just outside Boston, MA—is successfully serving its students with disabilities using the co-teaching method. The school set up inclusive classrooms led by... More »

Videos School Leaders School Design Teaching
March 16, 2016

The Freshmen Academy of Revere High School [Video]

When Dr. Lourenço Garcia became principal of Revere High School in 2012, he recognized that this traditional school design would need to change to better serve students and meet rising... More »

Videos District Leaders School Leaders School Design
March 2016

The Rewards of Perseverance: A Case Study of Aldine Independent School District (AISD)

Aldine Independent School District has faced daunting challenges and achieved impressive results since the early 1990s. This School System 20/20 case study explores how they did it. More »

Publications District Leaders School Leaders
February 2, 2017

A Vision for Partnership Between Districts and States

Under ESSA, state education agencies have the opportunity to establish a new vision for partnership with districts - one based on their powers to allocate, regulate, and importantly,... More »

Publications District Leaders State Leaders States
January 11, 2016

Checklist: Creating Strategic Teacher Leadership Roles

Too often, district efforts to create teacher leadership roles don’t last past the pilot phase. This checklist defines key steps to successful, sustainable, and scalable career... More »

Tools District Leaders Professional Learning Teaching
August 12, 2015

School System 20/20 Overview

ERS is now working with selected districts to perform the School System 20/20 Diagnostic—a data-informed, holistic series of assessments to help leaders in their efforts to redesign... More »

Publications District Leaders
July 22, 2015

Making Dollars Work for Students

Want to learn more about Student-Based Budgeting and how can it drive student learning? See Our Latest Toolkit This webinar is based on our publication, Following the Dollars to the... More »

Videos District Leaders Funding & Portfolio School Design
May 2015

Following the Dollars to the Classroom Door

More and more districts—and several states—are adopting funding models like student-based budgeting (also called weighted student funding or fair student funding) to increase equity... More »

Publications District Leaders Funding & Portfolio Student-Based Budgeting School Leaders School Design
May 2015

Data Decisions Brief #1: Prioritizing 9th Grade Math

These short papers highlight common opportunities school systems have to yield big results for students by adjusting their current resource use. It is based on ERS' 10 years of close... More »

Publications District Leaders School Leaders Teaching Standards & Instructional Resources
April 2015

Back from the Brink: A Case Study of Lawrence Public Schools

In 2011, Lawrence Public Schools was the first district that Massachusetts placed into state receivership due to poor performance. By 2014, things had dramatically changed for the better.... More »

Publications District Leaders School Leaders School Design Teaching Turnaround
February 2015

Do More, Add More, Earn More

Effective teachers are the biggest in-school factor related to student success. Across the country, a diverse set of districts are pioneering innovative approaches to teacher compensation... More »

Publications Compensation District Leaders Professional Learning Teaching
February 13, 2015

Building Professional Development [Video]

See what the individual professional growth process looks like at the Match Community Day Charter School in Boston. This video illustrates the training, observations, and coaching... More »

Videos Professional Learning Teaching
November 2014

Tools for California Districts

With the enactment of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) in 2013, California districts face an unprecedented opportunity to make big changes. With increased budgets and more... More »

Tools District Leaders School Leaders
October 2014

Return on Investment in Education

Recently, there has been growing interest in adapting Return on Investment thinking to education. But most ROI analysis still misses a big opportunity. Education leaders need a new... More »

Publications District Leaders Funding & Portfolio Leadership
August 2015

Data Decisions Brief #3: Investing in Teachers in the Age of Common Core

Learn how districts can target resources to better support teachers through job-embedded professional growth More »

Publications Compensation District Leaders
June 2014

The New Education CFO

In recent years, school districts have found themselves in turbulent waters. They face quickly rising academic standards, a greater focus on teacher effectiveness, rapidly changing... More »

Publications District Leaders Funding & Portfolio Leadership
June 3, 2014

The Path Forward

Researchers explored the effects of current school autonomy structures on Boston's public school operations and leadership, and looked at case studies from five other U.S. cities, drawing... More »

Videos District Leaders Leadership
April 15, 2014

Student-Based Budgeting Webinar

The following is a video recording of our April 3 webinar on student-based budgeting, based off our recent publication, "Transforming School Funding: A Guide to Implementing Student-Based... More »

Presentations District Leaders Funding & Portfolio Student-Based Budgeting
February 2014

School Design in Action

School Design in Action is a new section of our website that features interactive portraits of schools that are optimizing resources for student success. More »

Presentations District Leaders School Leaders School Design
July, 2013

Professional Growth & Support Interactive Presentation

A narrated PowerPoint presentation by ERS that introduces the key concepts and findings around teacher Professional Growth & Support. More »

Presentations Videos District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders Teaching
July 2013

First Steps

Part of a series of ERS publications on teacher compensation, this paper explores four steps districts can take now for sustained impact on teacher effectiveness. More »

Publications Compensation Professional Learning Teaching
May 2013

Professional Growth & Support Case Studies

Four case studies exploring how school systems have implemented a strategic approach to improving teaching effectiveness. More »

Publications Compensation District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders School Design Teaching
May 2013

Professional Growth & Support Spending Calculator

The Professional Growth & Support Spending Calculator helps quantify all current spending aimed at improving teaching effectiveness. Part I provides worksheets to analyze total... More »

Tools Funding & Portfolio Professional Learning School Leaders Teaching
May 2013

Professional Growth & Support System Self-Assessment

The Professional Growth & Support System Self-Assessment helps school systems evaluate their current Professional Growth & Support strategy. The self-assessment is organized around the... More »

Tools District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders School Design Teaching
May 2013

A New Vision for Teacher Professional Growth & Support

In this publication, ERS expands the traditional definition of teacher Professional Development to Professional Growth & Support, which includes any use of people, time, and money that... More »

Publications Compensation District Leaders Professional Learning Teaching
April 18, 2013

Teacher Compensation Workshop

This page contains links for the electronic materials to complement the Teacher Compensation Workshop. Additional information need for download is located on your Teacher Compensation... More »

Tools District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders
April 01, 2013

How to Facilitate a School Budget Hold’em Session

Education Resource Strategies recently hosted a webinar on how to play the budget trade-off game called School Budget Hold'em. The game lets district leaders, and anyone involved in the... More »

Presentations Videos District Leaders Funding & Portfolio
April, 2013

ERS' Teacher Compensation Workshop

School districts have the responsibility to design a compensation structure that maximizes their ability to meet teacher recruitment and retention goals within the context of long-term... More »

Presentations Videos Compensation District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders Teaching
April 2013

Misfit Structures & Lost Opportunities

One out of a series of three ERS publications on teacher compensation, this paper explores how to rethink compensation and career paths to attract and retain the most effective teachers. More »

Publications Compensation District Leaders Professional Learning Teaching
March 23, 2013

DREAM

You can do less with less, or you can change your district's cost model by rethinking how schools and systems are structured. DREAM allows you to adjust key cost levers in your district... More »

Tools District Leaders Student-Based Budgeting Teaching Turnaround

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