Tools & Publications

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  January 02, 2019

  School Design Packet

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

  Tools District Leaders School Leaders School Design
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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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  ERS

  Growing Great Teachers: New Strategies to Support New Teachers

  Every year, school districts welcome—and then lose—thousands of promising new teachers. For too many, the job is overwhelming, which can lead to teacher shortage in schools. How can we... More »

  District Leaders Professional Learning Teaching
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  November 08, 2018

  Resource Equity: A Primer for State Boards of Education

  At the 2018 NASBE annual conference, Karen Hawley Miles presented on Strategies to Foster Resource Equity to an audience of about 100 state leaders More »

  Equity State Leaders States
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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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  June 2018

  Low Teacher Salaries 101

  In 40 states, the real value of teacher salaries declined from 2010 to 2015. How we got here, why it matters, and how we can pay teachers fairly and strategically. More »

  Compensation District Leaders State Leaders
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  June 5, 2018

  Bridging the Budget Gap and Accelerating Student Learning in Los Angeles Unified (LAUSD)

  The ERS Resource Map for LAUSD analyzes resource allocation across the district, with a special emphasis on distribution of funding; teacher compensation, strategic retention, and... More »

  Presentations District Leaders Funding & Portfolio
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  June 05, 2018

  Addressing the Teacher Labor Market Challenge in Arizona

  Arizona spends less on K-12 education than almost every other state. But adding resources on top of the current system is likely an ineffective solution. More »

  Presentations ESSA Equity State Leaders
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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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  March 6, 2018

  Toolkit: Advancing Equitable School Funding under ESSA

  The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) gives states new financial transparency tools to better understand and become leaders for resource equity, but only if they are used well. These... More »

  Presentations ESSA State Leaders States
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  February 21, 2018

  Education Funding in North Carolina: What is Adequate? What is Equitable?

  ERS's Chief Executive Officer and President Karen Hawley Miles presented to the Governor's Commission on Access to a Sound Basic Education in North Carolina, focusing on four questions. More »

  Presentations
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  February 01, 2018

  Rigorous, Comprehensive Curricula and Assessments in Louisiana

  ERS studied school systems and states with improving student outcomes to learn best practices for teacher professional learning. We observed that these organizations connected... More »

  Professional Learning Teaching
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  January 19, 2018

  Finding Time for Collaborative Planning

  We share six practical strategies that schools can use to find more time for collaborative planning, using the resources they have today. More »

  District Leaders Professional Learning
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  January 18, 2018

  School Systems Leaders Fellowship Resources

  Do these challenges sound familiar? A higher bar for student learning and greater student needs, which requires new ways of organizing resources and investment. Unsustainable cost... More »

  Presentations District Leaders
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  October 2017

  Budget Hold’em for Districts

  Budget Hold'em for Districts is more than a game, it’s an interactive exploration of the thoughtful trade-offs school administrators have to make in these challenging budget times. More »

  Tools District Leaders Funding & Portfolio
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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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  August 01, 2017

  School Finance Packet for National Council of State Legislators (NCSL) Annual Meeting

  State legislators face ever-increasing challenges around school finance—scarce revenues, lawsuits, new mandated reporting, and so on. These resources will demystify some of these complex... More »

  Tools District Leaders States
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  July 25, 2017

  District Findings: Avoyelles Parish

  The following are the findings from our 2017 School System 20/20 assessment on how Avoyelles Parish Schools (a rural district located north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana) uses resources like... More »

  Presentations
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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 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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  Karen Hawley Miles, David Rosenberg, and Genevieve Quist Green

  Igniting the Learning Engine

  How school systems accelerate teacher effectiveness and student growth through Connected Professional Learning More »

  Publications District Leaders Professional Learning
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  March 22, 2017

  Leveraging System Transformation to Improve Student Results

  The following presentation summarizes the findings from our recent work in Denver Public Schools. These findings were the result of our School System 20/20 diagnostic of the district,... More »

  Presentations
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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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  February 16, 2017

  Working at ERS

  On Wednesday, February 15, ERS hosted a webinar to connect with potential candidates and share information about working at ERS and current open positions.  Jessica Fick, Senior HR &... More »

  Presentations
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  November 10, 2016

  ERS Comments on ESSA Supplement, Not Supplant Regulation

  Our comments target strategies that promote both equity and excellence—in other words, how many resources schools receive and how well they use them. We argue that while it is indeed... More »

  ESSA Publications State Leaders
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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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  October 06, 2016

  ESSA Financial Reporting Requirement

  Under ESSA, districts must report per-pupil spending at the LEA and school level using actual salary data. This new level of financial transparency aims to promote equity across schools.... More »

  ESSA Publications District Leaders State Leaders