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School Design Special Education Explore Equity

July 09, 2020

Putting Our Money Where Our Values Are

Read Now COVID-19 is affecting everyone — but it is not affecting everyone equally. For students of color and many students with higher needs — including students from low-income... More »

Publications District Leaders School Leaders School Design
Updated June 18, 2020

ERS Briefing: Decision Points for COVID Comeback Models

Everyone agrees that school in the fall cannot look the same as it did before the pandemic. Education leaders must organize people, time, and money to make up for learning losses, help... More »

Publications District Leaders COVID-19 School Leaders School Design
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
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
October 2, 2019

State Education Funding: The Poverty Equation

Originally published on FutureEd. The correlation between socioeconomic status and academic achievement doesn't just apply to individual students—the concentration of poverty in... More »

Publications Equity State Leaders
Districts at Work: Tulsa Tales Mini-Podcast

Real stories from real districts: How Tulsa Public Schools supported professional development for teachers — on a budget More »

Presentations Videos District Leaders Professional Learning Funding & Portfolio School Leaders School Design Leadership
Education Resource Strategies, April 9, 2019

Districts at Work

Profiles of eight school systems transforming how the central office supports schools, and seeing student results More »

Equity District Leaders Professional Learning School Design Teaching Leadership
March 2019

Integrating Social, Emotional and Academic Development

Originally published online by the Aspen Institute. To help principals and school leadership teams see how social and emotional learning can enhance academic performance, and how... More »

School Design Standards & Instructional Resources
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
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
December 2018

The Strategic System Snapshot | Mini

A 10-minute self-assessment tool that helps district leaders and others identify which of your strategies are likely to lead to student success—and where there are opportunities to improve. More »

Funding & Portfolio School Design Teaching School Support & Accountability Standards & Instructional Resources Community Engagement
November 08, 2018

Resource Equity: A Primer for State Boards of Education

At the 2018 NASBE annual conference, Karen Hawley Miles presented on Strategies to Foster Resource Equity to an audience of about 100 state leaders More »

Equity State Leaders States
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
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
August 31, 2018

Webinar: Finding the Money for School Improvement and Equity through ESSA's Resource Allocation Reviews [PAST]

This pre-recorded webinar shows advocates how they to leverage ESSA’s resource allocation review requirements to truly improve equity and excellence in schools. More »

Equity
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
March 28, 2018

Shared-Content Teaching Teams Prototype

Teacher teams are one of the most important strategies to promote teacher growth and ignite student learning—if done well. But how to make this crucial time as effective as possible? The... More »

Publications Professional Learning School Leaders School Design Teaching
March 2015 (Updated May 2017)

Designing Schools that Work

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

Publications District Leaders School Leaders School Design
June 20, 2017

Informing Equity

This report is a deep look into K-12 spending and resource allocation in charter and district-run schools in Oakland, comparing them across three dimensions: student need, resource... More »

Publications Equity District Leaders Funding & Portfolio
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
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
May 2017

It Takes a System: A Case Study of Denver Public Schools (DPS)

Over the last decade, Denver Public Schools (DPS) became one of the fastest-improving large districts in the country—achieving significant improvement across all student subgroups. Unlike... More »

Publications Special Education Compensation District Leaders Professional Learning Funding & Portfolio Student-Based Budgeting School Leaders School Design Teaching Leadership School Support & Accountability Turnaround
March 28, 2017

Targeted Intervention at the Jeremiah E. Burke High School [VIDEO]

The majority of students at the Jeremiah E. Burke High School—located in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood—enter 9th grade significantly below grade level in reading or math. To catch... More »

Videos School Leaders School Design
February 27, 2017

Budget Hold'em for Schools

Hold’em is an ERS tool that’s helped more than 10,000 education leaders better understand the kind of trade-offs that are possible to improve districts and schools while staying within... More »

Tools School Leaders School Design
February 22, 2017

Same Resources, Better Student Outcomes

A school system’s people, time, and money are always limited, so these critical resources need to be used wisely to best serve students. Without adequate data and analysis, though, it’s... More »

Publications District Leaders School Design
February 07, 2017

From Financial Transparency to Equity: Part 1

This brief summarizes the insights from a working group that sought to answer: How might we allocate resources to achieve the best outcomes for kids? More »

Publications Equity District Leaders Funding & Portfolio
November 17, 2016

The First Three Steps of Strategic School Design

Strategic school leaders know that October through December can be a fresh start for next year’s school design. More »

School Leaders School Design
August 15, 2016

Data Decisions Brief #5: Do All Students Get the Learning Time They Need?

Our School System 20/20 series of briefs, Data Decisions, highlights common opportunities school systems have to yield big results for students by adjusting their current resource use. It... More »

Publications District Leaders School Design
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
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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