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Tools Standards & Instructional Resources Teaching District Leaders

December 19, 2012

The Teaching Job Analyses and Worksheets: Section 3

The Teaching Job worksheet series includes worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure teaching effectiveness. These analyses can help identify your... More »

Tools Professional Learning School Leaders Teaching
December 19, 2012

The Teaching Job Analyses and Worksheets: Section 4

The Teaching Job worksheet series includes worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure teaching effectiveness. These analyses can help identify your... More »

Tools School Leaders Teaching School Support & Accountability
December 19, 2012

The Teaching Job Analyses and Worksheets: Section 5

The Teaching Job worksheet series includes worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure teaching effectiveness. These analyses can help identify your... More »

Tools Compensation School Leaders Teaching
December 18, 2012

The Teaching Job Analyses and Worksheets: Section 1

The Teaching Job worksheet series includes worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure teaching effectiveness. These analyses can help identify your... More »

Tools School Leaders Teaching
December, 2012

Rethinking the Value Proposition to Improve Teaching Effectiveness

Rethinking the Value Proposition to Improve Teaching Effectiveness explores the complete set of offerings and experiences provided by a school system to a teacher. We explore what the... More »

Publications Compensation District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders Teaching
November 2012

Strategic Design of Teacher Compensation

This paper explores typical goals of compensation redesign and implications for five main design considerations, including: base salary, district priority incentives, school roles,... More »

Publications Compensation District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders Teaching
November 2012

Transform Now Video

Our video illustrates why now is the time to take bold action to transform our school systems. Please share it and join the movement of district leaders dedicated to transforming school... More »

Videos District Leaders School Leaders State Leaders Leadership
April 18, 2012

Budget Hold'em Facilitator Guides

These instructions will help leaders organize and play Budget Hold'em. Use the Budget Hold'em for Districts Facilitator's Guide to play the in-person version of the game, using decks of... More »

Tools Publications District Leaders School Leaders Funding & Portfolio
April 2012

School Budget Hold'em Video: Targeting Turnaround Schools

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 target... More »

Videos Tools Turnaround
March 15, 2012

Sustaining Turnaround at Scale Summit Briefs

This series compiles and analyzes the results of our Sustaining Turnaround at Scale Summit held in October 2011. More »

Publications District Leaders School Leaders Turnaround
January 2012

School Budget Hold'em Video: Investing in Teaching Effectiveness

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 invest in... More »

Videos Tools District Leaders Funding & Portfolio Professional Learning School Leaders
October 2011

Sustaining Turnaround at Scale Summit: Videos

View videos from ERS’ Sustaining Turnaround at Scale Summit held in October 2011. Panelists from the ERS Summit share some thoughts on successful turnaround. Panelists on the closing... More »

Videos District Leaders School Leaders Turnaround
January 2011

Turning Around the Nation’s Lowest Performing Schools

Across the country, states and school districts are focusing on turning around the nation’s lowest-performing schools. This focus on school turnaround, while welcome, is not new. And... More »

Publications District Leaders School Leaders School Support & Accountability Turnaround
September 2010

Seven Strategies for District Transformation

This Getting Started guide is part of a series of publications designed to support your efforts to improve resource use in your district. Use this overview for a quick introduction to... More »

Publications District Leaders Standards & Instructional Resources
September 2010

Turnaround Schools Resource Guide

Turnaround efforts at individual schools will not result in widespread, sustainable change without fundamental shifts in the way districts evaluate school, student, and teacher needs and... More »

Publications District Leaders School Support & Accountability Turnaround
April 2010

Breaking the Cycle of Failure in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools

In this case study of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Strategic Staffing Initiative, Education Resource Strategies (ERS) and the Aspen Institute tell the important story of how one district is... More »

Presentations Publications District Leaders School Leaders School Design Teaching School Support & Accountability Turnaround
March 2009

Continuing to Improve Teaching Quality During Tough Economic Times

ERS Director Regis Shields presented at EdWeek’s webinar, “Creating Effective Teacher Professional Development in Tough Economic Times.” To turn tough times into opportunity, districts... More »

Presentations District Leaders Teaching Standards & Instructional Resources
2009

Strategic Professional Development Review

Before district leaders can expand professional development to better support teachers, they must first determine not only the current investment level but also what that investment is... More »

Publications District Leaders Professional Learning Teaching
2009

Teaching Quality Brief

This brief describes a vision for investing in teaching quality at the school level and provides guiding questions for both school leaders and those who support them to consider and... More »

Publications Teaching
2008

By Design Not Default

School districts across the country are redesigning their portfolios of high schools to include more small high schools. Over the past three years, Education Resource Strategies (ERS),... More »

Publications District Leaders Funding & Portfolio School Design
2008

The Strategic School

How can schools best use the resources they already have? That question is at the heart of this inspiring book for school and district administrators challenged with increasing student... More »

Publications District Leaders Funding & Portfolio School Leaders School Design Teaching School Support & Accountability
2008

Strategic Professional Development Review of the School District of Philadelphia

This report reviews the School District of Philadelphia’s (SDP) use of professional development resources. Despite Philadelphia’s low and unstable funding of professional development, ERS... More »

Publications District Leaders Professional Learning Teaching
May 2007

Toward a Strategic Use of Resources in Saint Paul Public Schools

In the Fall of 2006, Education Resource Strategies (ERS) was invited by Saint Paul Public Schools (SPPS) to study the use of resources in the district and create priority recommendations... More »

Publications District Leaders Professional Learning Standards & Instructional Resources
2004

Becoming a Capable and Accountable System

In 2003–2004, ERS and the Annenberg Institute for School Reform analyzed how Baltimore City Public School System utilizes its professional development resources and examined the alignment... More »

Publications District Leaders Teaching Standards & Instructional Resources
2004

Inside the Black Box of Professional Development Spending

Standards-based reform has entered a new phase that puts professional development of teachers at the center of the discussion. Research tells us that intensive, high-quality professional... More »

Publications District Leaders Professional Learning Teaching
August 01, 2003

Chicago Public Schools Professional Development Project

This project began as a result of a concern about how to strengthen the professional development of teachers and leaders throughout the Chicago Public Schools. Leaders of the district as... More »

Publications District Leaders Professional Learning Teaching Standards & Instructional Resources
January 2003

Rethinking District Professional Development Spending to Support School Improvement

School districts across the country already invest significant sums of money each year in professional development to improve schools and teacher practice. The five districts studied here... More »

Publications District Leaders Professional Learning Teaching
May 2001

Getting to the Heart of School Improvement

Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) is now four years into implementing Student’s First, a powerful strategic plan for improving student performance. This report, requested by Superintendent... More »

Publications District Leaders Teaching Standards & Instructional Resources
2000

Reinvesting in Teachers

ERS with New American Schools, primary support from the Pew Charitable Trusts, has partnered with one or two reform-minded districts each year for three years to analyze spending on... More »

Publications District Leaders Teaching Standards & Instructional Resources
December 1999

Professional Development Spending in the Boston Public Schools

ERS supported Boston Public Schools and the Boston Plan for Excellence-Boston Annenberg Challenge in conducting an in-depth analysis of the district’s existing professional development... More »

Publications District Leaders Professional Learning Teaching Standards & Instructional Resources

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