Tools & Publications

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  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
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  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 »

  Tools District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders Teaching
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  March 2015 (Updated May 2017)

  Designing Schools that Work

  Through years of research and practice around school resource use and principal training, we have found that high-performing, high-growth schools are responding to the changing... More »

  Publications District Leaders School Leaders School Design
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  June 14, 2017

  Checklist: Creating a Strategic Master Schedule

  Making school schedules is something district and school leaders must do every year — but during COVID-19, that job has just gotten harder. We've created a set of COVID Comeback Models... More »

  Tools School Leaders School Design
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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
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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 Funding & Portfolio Student-Based Budgeting School Leaders School Design Teaching Leadership School Support & Accountability Turnaround
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  March 28, 2017

  Targeted Intervention at the Jeremiah E. Burke High School [VIDEO]

  The majority of students at the Jeremiah E. Burke High School—located in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood—enter 9th grade significantly below grade level in reading or math. To catch... More »

  Videos School Leaders School Design
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  February 27, 2017

  Budget Hold'em for Schools

  Hold’em is an ERS tool that’s helped more than 10,000 education leaders better understand the kind of trade-offs that are possible to improve districts and schools while staying within... More »

  Tools School Leaders School Design
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  November 17, 2016

  The First Three Steps of Strategic School Design

  Strategic school leaders know that October through December can be a fresh start for next year’s school design. More »

  School Leaders School Design
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  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
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  July 18, 2016

  Data Decisions Brief #4: How Much Free Time Do 12th Graders Really Have?

  Our School System 20/20 series of briefs, Data Decisions, highlights common opportunities school systems have to yield big results for students by adjusting their current resource use. It... More »

  Publications Videos School Leaders
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  June 23, 2016

  Are You Ready for TIF 5?

  If your LEA or SEA is completing a TIF application for the July 15, 2016 deadline, these free online resources can support your human capital goals. More »

  Publications District Leaders School Leaders
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  May 2016

  Transform Now

  School System must better meet the needs of all students. And they can. But to succeed, we can't just do more of the same. We need to transform. Building off of One Vision, Seven... More »

  Publications District Leaders School Leaders State Leaders
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  April 21, 2016

  Building School Culture

  By embracing a set of school-wide values, UP Academy creates an atmosphere of rigor and joy, one that leads students to internalize important, positive lifelong values. Students now have... More »

  Presentations District Leaders School Leaders School Design
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  April 21, 2016

  Schoolwide Values, Systems, and Routines at Ridge Road Middle School [Video]

  See how Ridge Road Middle School in Charlotte, NC, transformed its student and adult culture through instituting strong schoolwide systems and routines. More »

  Videos School Leaders School Design
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  April 21, 2016

  Shared-Content Teaching Teams: Best Practices Template

  Effective shared-content teams reduce teacher workload, lowering the planning burden on any individual. They also reduce the expertise burden on each individual: every teacher’s plan... More »

  Tools School Leaders School Design Teaching
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  April 20, 2016

  Teacher Support at Achievement First

  The number one factor impacting student achievement is teacher quality, and finding, developing, recognizing and retaining great educators is the key to the success of our students and... More »

  Presentations Professional Learning School Leaders
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  April 18, 2016

  Ashley Park: Teaching Teams

  To make teacher teams work, Ashley Park has thought deliberately about the composition of teacher teams, created long blocks of time within the schedule to permit collaborative planning,... More »

  Presentations School Leaders School Design
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  April 18, 2016

  Data-Driven Instruction at Queens Metropolitan High School [Video]

  Data-driven instruction is the systematic use of common, standards-based assessments and other data to track student progress and adjust instruction and support—to drive meaningful... More »

  Videos School Leaders School Design
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  April 12, 2016

  Shared-Content Teaching Teams at UP Academy [Video]

  See how UP Academy in Dorchester, a neighborhood in Boston, MA, has made dramatic academic improvements by focusing on strategic collaboration among teachers. More »

  Videos Professional Learning School Leaders School Design Teaching
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  March 28, 2016

  School Designer

  ERS’ School Designer tool integrates districts’ planning and budgeting processes so that key resource decisions, including those related to a school’s schedule, staffing plan, and budget,... More »

  Tools District Leaders School Leaders School Design
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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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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  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
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  June 2017

  School Scheduling Tools

  Making school schedules is something district and school leaders must do every year — but during COVID-19, that job has just gotten harder. We've created a set of COVID Comeback Models... More »

  Tools School Leaders School Design
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  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