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  June 2013

  Student-Based Budgeting Video

  This short video was created to offer advice to principals considering implementing a student-based budgeting system, also known as weighted-student funding. More »

  Videos Funding & Portfolio Student-Based Budgeting
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  May 2013

  Professional Growth & Support Spending Calculator

  The Professional Growth & Support Spending Calculator helps quantify all current spending aimed at improving teaching effectiveness. Part I provides worksheets to analyze total... More »

  Tools Funding & Portfolio Professional Learning School Leaders Teaching
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  May 2013

  Professional Growth & Support System Self-Assessment

  The Professional Growth & Support System Self-Assessment helps school systems evaluate their current Professional Growth & Support strategy. The self-assessment is organized around the... More »

  Tools District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders School Design Teaching
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  April 2013

  School Budget Hold'em Video: Balancing Quality with Big Savings

  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 balance quality... More »

  Videos Presentations Funding & Portfolio School Leaders
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  April 18, 2013

  Teacher Compensation Workshop

  This page contains links for the electronic materials to complement the Teacher Compensation Workshop. Additional information need for download is located on your Teacher Compensation... More »

  Tools District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders
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  April 01, 2013

  How to Facilitate a School Budget Hold’em Session

  Education Resource Strategies recently hosted a webinar on how to play the budget trade-off game called School Budget Hold'em. The game lets district leaders, and anyone involved in the... More »

  Presentations Videos District Leaders Funding & Portfolio
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  March 23, 2013

  DREAM

  You can do less with less, or you can change your district's cost model by rethinking how schools and systems are structured. DREAM allows you to adjust key cost levers in your district... More »

  Tools District Leaders Student-Based Budgeting Teaching Turnaround
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  March 18, 2013

  Standards and Instruction District Story: Washington, D.C.

  Ten years ago, D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) had 65,000 students. Today it has fewer than 45,000. The severe enrollment decline was a wake-up call for the district. Starting in 2007, DCPS... More »

  Videos District Leaders School Leaders Standards & Instructional Resources
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  March 13, 2013

  School Budget Report for School District of Philadelphia: 2008-2009

  In the fall of 2007, Education Resource Strategies (ERS) was invited by Philadelphia’s School Reform Commission to conduct a Resource Use Analysis for the School District of Philadelphia... More »

  Publications District Leaders Funding & Portfolio
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  March 2013

  Funding District Story: U-46, Elgin, Illinois

  In 2008, the U-46 School District in Illinois faced a budget deficit of $45 million. Instead of deciding to do less with limited funds, the district worked with the school board and... More »

  Presentations District Leaders Funding & Portfolio School Leaders
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  March 2013

  Why Now?

  Hear from: Sam Franklin, Executive Director of the Office of Teacher Effectiveness, Pittsburgh Public Schools Brian Pick, Deputy Chief Academic Officer, D.C. Public Schools Alyssa... More »

  Videos District Leaders Leadership School Support & Accountability Standards & Instructional Resources
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  February 28, 2013

  School System 20/20 Infographic

  The School System 20/20 infographic lets you see the possibilities for system transformation through ERS' seven-strategy framework. It illustrates the challenges to reallocating people,... More »

  Presentations District Leaders Leadership School Support & Accountability Standards & Instructional Resources
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  December 19, 2012

  The Teaching Job Analyses and Worksheets: Section 2

  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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