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Publications Community Engagement Standards & Instructional Resources Turnaround ESSA Equity

February 03, 2022

Getting Real About Continuous Improvement: Spotlight on Dallas ISD

Learn how Dallas ISD overcame common continuous improvement challenges for its intersession model, such as limited capacity, stakeholder engagement, and key decision-making. More »

Publications District Partnerships COVID-19 District Leaders School Design Leadership
December 16, 2021

ERS Top FIVE Resources from 2021

Here are our top 5 resources from 2021 — and real-life examples from districts and schools around the country. More »

Presentations Publications COVID-19 District Leaders School Leaders School Design State Leaders Toolkits
October 28, 2021

Getting Real About Sustainability & ESSER Funding

A 90-second explanation with concrete examples More »

Publications Videos District Leaders Funding & Portfolio
October 28, 2021

Getting Real About Tutoring

Research-informed options for navigating barriers to moving from ESSER plans to real implementation More »

Publications District Leaders School Design Standards & Instructional Resources
Sep 29, 2021

Organizing Resources to Support Inclusion Models for Students With Disabilities

Across the country, roughly one in five students with an IEP spend most of their time receiving individualized services and supports in a “self-contained” or “substantially separate”... More »

Publications Special Education District Leaders
Aug 31, 2021

Investing ESSER Funds Equitably

The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t impacted all students in the same ways. For many students - including students from low-income backgrounds, students of color, students with disabilities, and... More »

Publications Equity District Leaders State Leaders Leadership School Support & Accountability
Schools Start Here Series

The Schools Start Here series dives into the resource side of ESSER strategy and planning. These guides offer a blueprint for how to organize resources as part of a sustainable ESSER... More »

Publications Equity District Leaders Funding & Portfolio Professional Learning School Leaders School Design School Support & Accountability Community Engagement
May 2021

COVID-19 Reopening and Recovery: Toolkit for Districts and Schools

From equitably meeting students' increased needs, to planning new budgets, to creating safe and effective models for hybrid and fully-remote learning — the options facing districts and... More »

Equity District Leaders COVID-19 School Leaders State Leaders Leadership School Support & Accountability Community Engagement Toolkits
April 23, 2021

Teacher Turnover Before, During, & After COVID

Before COVID, the shortage of qualified, skilled teachers — especially in our lowest-income communities and hardest-to-staff roles — was among the top challenges facing education... More »

Publications COVID-19 District Leaders School Leaders Teaching
April 19, 2021

Advancing Resource Equity: Teaching Quality & Diversity

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... More »

Videos Equity District Leaders Teaching
April 14, 2021

States Start Here

Childrens' learning has been massively disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing the need for more opportunities for differentiated, high-quality learning, stronger relationships... More »

Publications COVID-19 School Design State Leaders States
March 09, 2021

Start Here

5 “power strategies” (and real-life examples) to accelerate equity-focused recovery and redesign More »

Publications Tools COVID-19 District Leaders School Leaders School Design
School Leaders as Equity Leaders

Tools to help principals create resource equity in their school buildings. More »

Equity District Leaders School Leaders Toolkits
November 30, 2020

Three Key Questions for Rethinking Student Safety Investments

We all want our schools to be safe, inviting and positive places for all students. Unfortunately, that isn’t always the case. We are grappling with a history of systemic racism and police... More »

Publications Equity District Leaders School Leaders
October 2020

Reporting for Equity

A guide outlining the 5 principles of equity-focused spending reporting, including essential questions and examples of effective reporting practices. More »

Presentations Equity District Leaders Funding & Portfolio
October 20, 2020

Moving to the Next Phase of School Reopening

Nearly half of the 907 public school districts tracked by Education Week opened school fully remote this year. This includes more than three-quarters of the nation’s largest districts,... More »

Publications COVID-19 District Leaders
August 2020

COVID Comeback Models

Explore concrete examples of possible student groups, schedules, and staff roles for various hybrid models. More »

Publications Tools COVID-19 District Leaders School Leaders School Design Teaching School Support & Accountability
July 30, 2020

The Economics of Transitioning from Remote to In-Person School

September 2021 UpdateOur Schools Start Here series of guides and ESSER Strategy Planner & Spending Calcuator dives into the resource side of ESSER strategy and planning - including... More »

Publications COVID-19 District Leaders School Leaders School Design
July 09, 2020

Education Resource Equity in 2020-21

Go to the Guides Teams of school, district, and community leaders are working tirelessly to identify solutions that respond to budget uncertainties, meet students’ increased needs, and... More »

Publications District Leaders School Leaders School Design
July 09, 2020

Putting Our Money Where Our Values Are

Read Now COVID-19 is affecting everyone — but it is not affecting everyone equally. For students of color and many students with higher needs — including students from low-income... More »

Publications District Leaders School Leaders School Design
Updated June 18, 2020

ERS Briefing: Decision Points for COVID Comeback Models

Everyone agrees that school in the fall cannot look the same as it did before the pandemic. Education leaders must organize people, time, and money to make up for learning losses, help... More »

Publications District Leaders COVID-19 School Leaders School Design
March 25, 2020

The Resource Equity Diagnostic

Get Started Understand the current state of education equity and excellence for students in your school system — including strengths and gaps across all 10 dimensions of education... More »

Tools Equity
February 25, 2020

The Education Combination

Read Now Drawing on both research and the lived experiences of students, parents, and educators from across the country, this paper describes how the right combination of resources can... More »

Publications
February 18, 2020

ERS Briefing: Opportunities Abound

Read the Briefing The 2019 Student Opportunity Act creates a once-in-a-generation moment for Massachusetts students: the Commonwealth has committed $1.5 billion dollars over seven... More »

Publications Funding & Portfolio State Leaders
January 30, 2020

ERS Briefing: Supporting School Turnaround

Read the Briefing In turnaround schools, traditional approaches to school improvement (and some say, even the recent seven billion dollar federal investment in school improvement)... More »

Publications ESSA District Leaders School Design Turnaround
November 20, 2019

The Strategic CFO

3 mindsets and 5 core functions to help CFOs align resources to strategy More »

Publications District Leaders Funding & Portfolio
October 2, 2019

State Education Funding: The Poverty Equation

Originally published on FutureEd. The correlation between socioeconomic status and academic achievement doesn't just apply to individual students—the concentration of poverty in... More »

Publications Equity State Leaders
Education Resource Strategies, April 9, 2019

Districts at Work

Profiles of eight school systems transforming how the central office supports schools, and seeing student results More »

Equity District Leaders Professional Learning School Design Teaching Leadership
March 2019

Integrating Social, Emotional and Academic Development

Originally published online by the Aspen Institute. To help principals and school leadership teams see how social and emotional learning can enhance academic performance, and how... More »

School Design Standards & Instructional Resources
January 2019

Transforming School Funding: A Guide to Implementing Student-Based Budgeting

Student-Based Budgeting (SBB) allocates dollars based on enrollment and student need. In this blog, you will find tools and key elements for decision making as you consider SBB for your... More »

District Leaders Equity Funding & Portfolio Student-Based Budgeting

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