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  December 19, 2022

  ERS Top Resources from 2022

  We're highlighting our Top Resources from 2022 and some reflections to help you prepare for the new year. More »

  Publications Tools District Leaders School Leaders
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  Education Resource Strategies

  Reimagining the Teaching Job

  An illustration of what the teacher experience looks like now for many teachers, and what it could look like instead by making teaching a more dynamic, rewarding, collaborative, and... More »

  Publications Tools COVID-19 Compensation District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders State Leaders Teaching Leadership Toolkits
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  Education Resource Strategies

  How School District Leaders Can Support Teachers and Drive Change

  This page highlights out-of-the-box strategies and investments make it possible for leaders to redesign the teaching profession. More »

  Publications Tools Compensation District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders Teaching Learn
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  Education Resource Strategies

  Resources to Help School Leaders Improve the Teaching Job

  Resources to Get Started in Your District   NEW RESOURCE: HOW TO SUPPORT PRINCIPALS  When principals get effective support from their central office, they’re more likely to... More »

  Publications Tools Compensation District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders Teaching Learn
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  Education Resource Strategies

  The Vision: Reimagining the Teaching Job

  How we can lift students and educators by making teaching a more dynamic, rewarding, collaborative, and sustainable profession More »

  Publications Tools COVID-19 Compensation District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders School Design State Leaders Teaching Toolkits
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  September 12, 2022

  ESSER Hold'em for Districts

  ESSER Hold'em for Districts is more than a game—it’s an interactive exploration of the thoughtful trade-offs school administrators will make to use ESSER funds to invest in student recovery. More »

  Tools COVID-19 District Leaders Funding & Portfolio
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  August 16, 2022

  How to Enable Transformational Change in K-12 School Districts Through a "Do Now, Build Toward" Approach

  "Do Now, Build Toward" (DNBT) is a sustainable approach to transformation that builds on research, incorporates practical limitations, and uses a community-driven, iterative framework. More »

  Publications Tools District Leaders Learn Assess Explore Take Action Learn More
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  June 01, 2022

  It's Time for an ESSER Halftime Review

  We’re halfway through ESSER’s funding timeline, but leaders still have time to create lasting change. This ESSER Halftime Review Guide will help help facilitate productive conversations,... More »

  Publications Tools COVID-19 District Leaders Learn Toolkits
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  May 31, 2022

  How implementing a "Continuous Improvement ROI" model can help districts maximize ESSER outcomes

  Continuous improvement ROI is a way to ensure effective and equitable allocation of ESSER funds even when the timeline of spend, and our system’s capacity, are limited More »

  Publications Tools Videos COVID-19 District Leaders Assess
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  Spring 2022

  ESSER Guidance for School Staffing, Spending, and Scheduling

  The ESSER Guidance for School Staffing, Spending, and Scheduling guides provide a blueprint for organizing resources for a sustainable ESSER investment strategy—one that has an immediate... More »

  Publications Tools District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders School Design Leadership School Support & Accountability Community Engagement Toolkits
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  March 03, 2022

  Continuous Improvement ROI: Concept Explainer

  See how to approach the concept of ROI through a continuous improvement mindset, where we explore alternative options for the “return” that we typically think of as student outcomes. More »

  Videos Tools COVID-19 District Leaders
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  February 03, 2022

  Adapting District and School Budget Development Processes for FY23 to Optimize Your ESSER Investment

  Six key adaptations for districts and schools to serve as a starting point for your team and district community as you collaborate to prioritize, simplify, and streamline your FY23 budget... More »

  Publications Tools COVID-19 District Leaders School Leaders School Design Leadership Community Engagement
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  February 03, 2022

  ESSER Plan Communication

  5 Key Messaging Imperatives to Build Alignment Among District Leaders, School Boards, and Cabinets More »

  Presentations Publications Tools COVID-19 District Leaders Leadership Community Engagement
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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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  January 02, 2019

  School Design Packet

  Through years of research and practice around school resource use, we have found that high-performing, high-growth schools are responding to the changing context in education by using... More »

  Tools District Leaders School Leaders School Design
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  October 01, 2018

  What is Resource Equity?

  In this working paper, we've identified many - often hidden - "dimensions of equity," and we explain how each links to student outcomes, identify typical sources of inequities within... More »

  Publications ESSA District Leaders Equity Funding & Portfolio
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  August 2018

  Weighted Student Funding

  Weighted Student Funding has become a popular initiative for district leaders who seek to allocate scarce resources to schools, especially in the face of stubborn achievement gaps,... More »

  Funding & Portfolio Student-Based Budgeting Toolkits
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  Education Resource Strategies

  Toolkit: What is Student-Based Budgeting? How can it drive student learning?

  SBB is a funding system whereby dollars follow students based on student need, and can help increase funding transparency, equity, and flexibility. More »

  Equity District Leaders Funding & Portfolio Student-Based Budgeting Toolkits
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  June 05, 2018

  Addressing the Teacher Labor Market Challenge in Arizona

  Arizona spends less on K-12 education than almost every other state. But adding resources on top of the current system is likely an ineffective solution. More »

  Presentations ESSA Equity State Leaders
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  March 6, 2018

  Toolkit: Advancing Equitable School Funding under ESSA

  The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) gives states new financial transparency tools to better understand and become leaders for resource equity, but only if they are used well. These... More »

  Presentations ESSA State Leaders States
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  October 2017

  Budget Hold’em for Districts

  Budget Hold'em for Districts is more than a game, it’s an interactive exploration of the thoughtful trade-offs school administrators have to make in these challenging budget times. More »

  Tools District Leaders Funding & Portfolio
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  August 15, 2017

  Professional Learning Diagnostic Tool

  How can your school system better connect professional learning to the everyday work of teaching—and to a systemwide strategy for student success? We studied four school systems that... More »

  Tools District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders Teaching
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  August 01, 2017

  School Finance Packet for National Council of State Legislators (NCSL) Annual Meeting

  State legislators face ever-increasing challenges around school finance—scarce revenues, lawsuits, new mandated reporting, and so on. These resources will demystify some of these complex... More »

  Tools District Leaders States
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  June 14, 2017

  Checklist: Creating a Strategic Master Schedule

  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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  Education Resource Strategies

  School Check

  This school assessment tool is based on resource strategies and principles from “The Strategic School: Making the Most of People, Time, and Money” by Karen Hawley Miles and Stephen Frank.... More »

  Tools School Leaders School Design Teaching