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ERS Five
Practice Areas

• Professional Development
• School Funding Systems
• School Level Resource Use
• Performance Management
• School System Design

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The Big Picture: District Professional Development Strategy, by K.H. Miles.

The analysis looks at creating a powerful professional development plan that touches on every aspect of school and district organization.

To find this and other publications relevant to each of the five practice areas, click here.

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The Strategic School: Making the Most of People, Time, and Money

Karen Hawley Miles & Stephen Frank

ERS’s Five Practice Areas:

We organize our work with urban school systems to address five critical system levers for improving instruction:

Professional Development and School Support

Builds toward a comprehensive system-wide strategy for supporting school improvement and building teacher and leadership expertise. Find out more . . .

School Level Resource Use

Focuses resources and empowers leaders at the school-level to organize time, people and money in ways likely to improve performance. Find out more . . .

School Funding Systems

Determines appropriate and equitable spending levels system-wide for individual schools, programs, and students. Find our more . . .

School Performance Management

Develops systems for evaluating and improving individual school performance.
Find out more . . .

School System Design

Outlines district roles and strategies that promote transformational improvement in student performance across the system. Find out more . . .