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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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  Education Resource Strategies

  Teacher Compensation Calculator

  Explore your options for designing a more effective teacher compensation system within your existing district budget. More »

  Tools Compensation District Leaders Teaching
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  June 21, 2016

  The TDP Toolkit

  If you're unfamiliar with the Talent Decision Planner, visit the "Building a Talent Decision Map" to learn more. You must be signed in to your ERS Account to access this tool. More »

  Tools District Leaders Professional Learning Teaching
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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

  Coaching Cycles at Match Community Day

  Effective implementation required a deliberate teaming structure with collaborative planning time to group & regroup students based on data More »

  Presentations School Design Teaching
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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

  Strategic Teacher Teaming at UP Academy

  Explore the approach and results of strategic teacher teaming at UP Academy in Boston, MA More »

  Presentations Professional Learning 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 to Improve Teaching and Learning

  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 »

  Presentations
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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 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 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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  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
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  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
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  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
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  May 29, 2015

  Spending in Philadelphia Schools

  This PowerPoint presentation summarizes the findings from Education Resource Strategies in the School District of Philadelphia (SDP). We partnered with SDP in the 2014-2015 school year to... More »

  Presentations Funding & Portfolio
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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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  February 2015

  Six Opportunities to Restructure Education Resources in Georgia

  From 2012 to 2013, ERS partnered with the Georgia Department of Education to address how the state and a few districts manage their resources. These reports highlight three opportunities... More »

  Presentations Funding & Portfolio Student-Based Budgeting State Leaders States
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  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
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  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
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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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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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