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  September 19, 2023

  Hybrid Learning Models That Actually Work

  How-to Guide for Implementing Hybrid Learning Models While our vision paper illustrates what hybrid learning models could do for districts, our guide provides comprehensive guidance... More »

  District Leaders School Design Standards & Instructional Resources Toolkits
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  Education Resource Strategies

  Elementary Instructional Planning Guide

    All students deserve the time and space to learn across all content areas—but not every schedule affords students the same opportunities. A school’s schedule reflects a school’s... More »

  District Leaders School Leaders School Design Toolkits
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  Education Resource Strategies

  How to Spend ESSER Funds Strategically for K-12 Transformation

  Actionable tools and resources to help district leaders invest ESSER funds with a "Do Now, Build Toward" approach for sustainable transformation. More »

  COVID-19 Equity District Leaders State Leaders Toolkits
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  January 31, 2023

  10 Ways to Spend Remaining ESSER Dollars to Transform Schooling for Good

  Invest in Foundational "Stuff" That Drives Lasting Change #1 | Coherent, Empowering, Challenging Curricula—and Professional Learning to Support It  Empowering, challenging curricula and... More »

  Publications COVID-19 District Leaders Teaching Standards & Instructional Resources
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  Education Resource Strategies

  Reimagining the Teaching Job

  An illustration of what the teacher experience looks like now for many teachers, and what it could look like instead by making teaching a more dynamic, rewarding, collaborative, and... More »

  Publications Tools COVID-19 Compensation District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders State Leaders Teaching Leadership Toolkits
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  Education Resource Strategies

  The Vision: Reimagining the Teaching Job

  How we can lift students and educators by making teaching a more dynamic, rewarding, collaborative, and sustainable profession More »

  Publications Tools COVID-19 Compensation District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders School Design State Leaders Teaching Toolkits
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  July 06, 2022

  10 Steps to Become an Equity Detective

  Learn how to become an “equity detective”: a leader who actively looks for and takes action to address structural and systemic inequities in schools and school systems. More »

  Board Members Publications Equity District Leaders Leadership School Support & Accountability Take Action
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  June 01, 2022

  It's Time for an ESSER Halftime Review

  We’re halfway through ESSER’s funding timeline, but leaders still have time to create lasting change. This ESSER Halftime Review Guide will help help facilitate productive conversations,... More »

  Publications Tools COVID-19 District Leaders Learn Toolkits
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  Spring 2022

  ESSER Guidance for School Staffing, Spending, and Scheduling

  The ESSER Guidance for School Staffing, Spending, and Scheduling guides provide a blueprint for organizing resources for a sustainable ESSER investment strategy—one that has an immediate... More »

  Publications Tools District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders School Design Leadership School Support & Accountability Community Engagement Toolkits
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  December 16, 2021

  ERS Top FIVE Resources from 2021

  Here are our top 5 resources from 2021 — and real-life examples from districts and schools around the country. More »

  Presentations Publications COVID-19 District Leaders School Leaders School Design State Leaders Toolkits
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  October 28, 2021

  Getting Real About Tutoring

  Research-informed options for navigating barriers to moving from ESSER plans to real implementation More »

  Publications District Leaders School Design Standards & Instructional Resources
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  Aug 31, 2021

  Investing ESSER Funds Equitably

  The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t impacted all students in the same ways. For many students - including students from low-income backgrounds, students of color, students with disabilities, and... More »

  Publications Equity District Leaders State Leaders Leadership School Support & Accountability
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  Schools Start Here Series

  The Schools Start Here series dives into the resource side of ESSER strategy and planning. These guides offer a blueprint for how to organize resources as part of a sustainable ESSER... More »

  Publications Equity District Leaders Funding & Portfolio Professional Learning School Leaders School Design School Support & Accountability Community Engagement
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  May 2021

  COVID-19 Reopening and Recovery: Toolkit for Districts and Schools

  From equitably meeting students' increased needs, to planning new budgets, to creating safe and effective models for hybrid and fully-remote learning — the options facing districts and... More »

  Equity District Leaders COVID-19 School Leaders State Leaders Leadership School Support & Accountability Community Engagement Toolkits
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  School Leaders as Equity Leaders

  Tools to help principals create resource equity in their school buildings. More »

  Equity District Leaders School Leaders Toolkits
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  August 2020

  COVID Comeback Models

  Explore concrete examples of possible student groups, schedules, and staff roles for various hybrid models. More »

  Publications Tools COVID-19 District Leaders School Leaders School Design Teaching School Support & Accountability
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  Three Steps to a Strategic Schedule

  We’ve created a set of COVID Comeback Models that include possible student groups, schedules, staff roles and more for district and school leaders planning for a safe shift to hybrid... More »

  District Leaders School Leaders School Design Toolkits
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  January 30, 2020

  ERS Briefing: Supporting School Turnaround

  Read the Briefing In turnaround schools, traditional approaches to school improvement (and some say, even the recent seven billion dollar federal investment in school improvement)... More »

  Publications ESSA District Leaders School Design Turnaround
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  March 2019

  Integrating Social, Emotional and Academic Development

  Originally published online by the Aspen Institute.  To help principals and school leadership teams see how social and emotional learning can enhance academic performance, and how... More »

  School Design Standards & Instructional Resources
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  Toolkit: Advice for New Superintendents

  As a new superintendent - whether it's your first time in that role or just new to a community- you'll face a tremendous number of challenges. The key is knowing where to begin. More »

  District Leaders Leadership Toolkits
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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
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  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 »

  Funding & Portfolio School Design Teaching School Support & Accountability Standards & Instructional Resources Community Engagement
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  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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  Education Resource Strategies

  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
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  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 School Leaders School Design Teaching Leadership School Support & Accountability Turnaround
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  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
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  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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  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
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  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
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  December 2014

  Spinning Straw into Gold

  K–12 education resources are often allocated non-strategically, with schools spending time and money on activities that have little relationship to student outcomes. States can help... More »

  Publications State Leaders School Support & Accountability States