Tools & Publications

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  June 21, 2016

  The TDP Toolkit

  If you're unfamiliar with the Talent Decision Planner, visit the "Building a Talent Decision Map" to learn more. You must be signed in to your ERS Account to access this tool. More »

  Tools District Leaders Professional Learning Teaching
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  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
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  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
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  April 21, 2016

  Schoolwide Values, Systems, and Routines at Ridge Road Middle School [Video]

  See how Ridge Road Middle School in Charlotte, NC, transformed its student and adult culture through instituting strong schoolwide systems and routines. More »

  Videos School Leaders School Design
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  April 18, 2016

  Data-Driven Instruction at Queens Metropolitan High School [Video]

  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 »

  Videos School Leaders School Design
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  April 12, 2016

  Shared-Content Teaching Teams at UP Academy [Video]

  See how UP Academy in Dorchester, a neighborhood in Boston, MA, has made dramatic academic improvements by focusing on strategic collaboration among teachers. More »

  Videos Professional Learning School Leaders School Design Teaching
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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
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  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
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  March 16, 2016

  Revere High School Adopts Co-Teaching Model to Better Support Students with Disabilities [Video]

  Revere High School—located just outside Boston, MA—is successfully serving its students with disabilities using the co-teaching method. The school set up inclusive classrooms led by... More »

  Videos School Leaders School Design Teaching
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  March 16, 2016

  The Freshmen Academy of Revere High School [Video]

  When Dr. Lourenço Garcia became principal of Revere High School in 2012, he recognized that this traditional school design would need to change to better serve students and meet rising... More »

  Videos District Leaders School Leaders School Design
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  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
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  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
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  November 2015

  A New Vision of Partnership Between Districts and States [Video]

  In this video, school district leaders from New York State share their plans for reallocating resources to meet student needs, and their vision for the state to help them succeed. More »

  Videos States
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  July 22, 2015

  Making Dollars Work for Students

  Want to learn more about Student-Based Budgeting and how can it drive student learning? See Our Latest Toolkit   This webinar is based on our publication, Following the Dollars to the... More »

  Videos District Leaders Funding & Portfolio School Design
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  February 13, 2015

  Building Professional Development [Video]

  See what the individual professional growth process looks like at the Match Community Day Charter School in Boston. This video illustrates the training, observations, and coaching... More »

  Videos Professional Learning Teaching
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  June 03, 2014

  Boston Public Schools: School Autonomy Working Group

  ERS worked with a cross-functional team from the Boston Public Schools (BPS) in 2014 to assess the role of school autonomy in improving student outcomes. This video pulls together some of... More »

  Videos School Design
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  June 3, 2014

  The Path Forward

  Researchers explored the effects of current school autonomy structures on Boston's public school operations and leadership, and looked at case studies from five other U.S. cities, drawing... More »

  Videos District Leaders Leadership
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  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