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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.
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Continuous improvement ROI is a way to ensure effective and equitable allocation of ESSER funds even when the timeline of spend, and our system’s capacity, are limited
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See how to approach the concept of ROI through a continuous improvement mindset, where we explore alternative options for the “return” that we typically think of as student outcomes.
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On Friday, April 9, 2021, the Alliance for Resource Equity (ARE) hosted their third Learning Series session on the most critical resource equity actions that districts can take to direct...
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On Tuesday, March 30, 2021, Education Resource Strategies hosted a webinar on resource planning for virtual schools. Speakers included Education First, who presented domains and key...
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Our team, in both Boston and San Francisco offices, is growing! We are seeking results-oriented professionals with strong analytical skills and a passion for improving the educational...
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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...
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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...
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See how Ridge Road Middle School in Charlotte, NC, transformed its student and adult culture through instituting strong schoolwide systems and routines.
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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...
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See how UP Academy in Dorchester, a neighborhood in Boston, MA, has made dramatic academic improvements by focusing on strategic collaboration among teachers.
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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...
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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...
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In this video, school district leaders from New York State share their plans for reallocating resources to meet student needs, and their vision for the state to help them succeed.
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This webinar is based on our publication, Following the Dollars to the...
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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...
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ERS worked with a cross-functional team from the Boston Public Schools (BPS) in 2014 to assess the role of school autonomy in improving student outcomes. This video pulls together some of...
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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...
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This short video was created to offer advice to principals considering implementing a student-based budgeting system, also known as weighted-student funding.
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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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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...
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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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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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Despite success turning around many of its lowest-performing schools, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District found that nine of its schools were still struggling. To improve these...
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