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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 »

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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 »

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  March 15, 2013

  Essential School Practices

  Before schools can systematically implement a district’s vision for excellent school practices, district leadership must clearly articulate exactly what school strategies they believe... More »

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  March 2013

  Leadership District Story: Charlotte-Mecklenburg

  In 2006, Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District made a bold move. It began to strategically staff a subset of its lowest-performing schools with its district’s best principals. Five years... More »

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  March 2013

  School Design District Story: Denver

  Denver Public Schools (DPS) took an innovative look at how it could support individual school efforts to restructure and align resources—people, time, and money—to drive student achievement. More »

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  March 2013

  School Support District Story: Denver

  By transforming its central office from a compliance watchdog to a service and strategic partner, Denver Public Schools (DPS) was able to leverage data, technology, and training to... More »

  Videos District Leaders School Support & Accountability
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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 »

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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 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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  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 »

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  March 2011

  Video: Turnaround in Action

  See how two schools in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (NC)–winner of the prestigious 2011 Broad Prize for Urban Education–are approaching turnaround. Both are achieving spectacular... More »

  Videos School Leaders School Design Turnaround
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  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
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  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
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  April 2010

  Time and Attention in Urban High Schools

  There is no disputing that for high school students to be college and career ready, they need adequate time to learn and individualized attention to meet their academic goals, learning... More »

  Publications School Leaders School Design
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  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
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  2008

  Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small High Schools

  The full report This report illustrates how nine high-performing, small urban high schools across the U.S. are thinking about and organizing resources strategically to best meet their... More »

  Publications School Leaders 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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  2005

  Five Case Studies on Revising School Schedules

  As schools implement comprehensive reform efforts, many are finding the value of juggling the school schedule to provide two important resources for supporting the reform effort: common... More »

  Publications School Leaders School Design