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Presentations Publications Tools Standards & Instructional Resources ESSA Learn COVID-19

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
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
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
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
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
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
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 »

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March 31, 2016

Checklist: Creating a Strategic Budget Process

The standard annual budgeting process is focused on incremental changes to last year's budget. Yet strategic superintendents and CFOs know that an effective budget process is much more... More »

Tools District Leaders Funding & Portfolio
March 28, 2016

School Designer

ERS’ School Designer tool integrates districts’ planning and budgeting processes so that key resource decisions, including those related to a school’s schedule, staffing plan, and budget,... More »

Tools District Leaders School Leaders School Design
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
November 2014

Tools for California Districts

With the enactment of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) in 2013, California districts face an unprecedented opportunity to make big changes. With increased budgets and more... More »

Tools District Leaders School Leaders
June 2017

School Scheduling Tools

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
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
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
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
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
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
July, 2013

Professional Growth & Support Interactive Presentation

A narrated PowerPoint presentation by ERS that introduces the key concepts and findings around teacher Professional Growth & Support. More »

Presentations Videos District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders Teaching
July 2013

First Steps

Part of a series of ERS publications on teacher compensation, this paper explores four steps districts can take now for sustained impact on teacher effectiveness. More »

Publications Compensation Professional Learning Teaching
May 2013

Professional Growth & Support Case Studies

Four case studies exploring how school systems have implemented a strategic approach to improving teaching effectiveness. More »

Publications Compensation District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders School Design Teaching

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