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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...
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School Design in Action is a new section of our website that features interactive portraits of schools that are optimizing resources for student success.
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The Professional Growth & Support Spending Calculator helps quantify all current spending aimed at improving teaching effectiveness. Part I provides worksheets to analyze total...
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The Professional Growth & Support System Self-Assessment helps school systems evaluate their current Professional Growth & Support strategy. The self-assessment is organized around the...
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Vidalia City Schools is one shining example of a district that strategically leverages its people, time, and money in the face of low funding levels and has seen steady growth in...
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Our series of School Budget Hold'em winning hands videos illustrates how to reach a target budget reduction while prioritizing different areas. This video shows one way to balance quality...
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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...
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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...
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Ten years ago, D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) had 65,000 students. Today it has fewer than 45,000. The severe enrollment decline was a wake-up call for the district. Starting in 2007, DCPS...
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Before schools can systematically implement a district’s vision for excellent school practices, district leadership must clearly articulate exactly what school strategies they believe...
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“Turnaround Case Studies” is an analysis of strategies to turn around low-performing schools undertaken by six large urban districts and four education management organizations. These...
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Today’s challenging goals change the job of teaching and the needs for resources. Yet the basic organization of schools looks much the same as it did fifty years ago. This brief presents...
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View the posters that compare the turnaround strategies of the districts that attended Education Resource Strategies’ Sustaining Turnaround at Scale Summit held in October 2011.
ERS held...
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In 2008, the U-46 School District in Illinois faced a budget deficit of $45 million. Instead of deciding to do less with limited funds, the district worked with the school board and...
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In 2006, Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District made a bold move. It began to strategically staff a subset of its lowest-performing schools with its district’s best principals. Five years...
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Denver Public Schools (DPS) took an innovative look at how it could support individual school efforts to restructure and align resources—people, time, and money—to drive student achievement.
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Over the past decade, D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) has faced severe enrollment decline–from 65,000 students to 45,000. As a result, the district took a hard look at their...
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The School Design worksheet series includes worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure effective school design and portfolio management. These analyses...
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The School Design worksheet series includes worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure effective school design and portfolio management. These analyses...
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The School Design worksheet series includes worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure effective school design and portfolio management. These analyses...
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The School Design worksheet series includes worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure effective school design and portfolio management. These analyses...
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The School Design worksheet series includes worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure effective school design and portfolio management. These analyses...
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The Teaching Job worksheet series includes worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure teaching effectiveness. These analyses can help identify your...
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The Teaching Job worksheet series includes worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure teaching effectiveness. These analyses can help identify your...
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The Teaching Job worksheet series includes worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure teaching effectiveness. These analyses can help identify your...
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The Teaching Job worksheet series includes worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure teaching effectiveness. These analyses can help identify your...
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The Teaching Job worksheet series includes worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure teaching effectiveness. These analyses can help identify your...
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Rethinking the Value Proposition to Improve Teaching Effectiveness explores the complete set of offerings and experiences provided by a school system to a teacher. We explore what the...
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