Turnaround Summit Video
Videos from the ERS Summit, Sustaining Turnaround at Scale.
Entries tagged with: Instructional Systems
Sustaining Turnaround at Scale - Session Summaries
A brief description of every panel presentation from the ERS Summit, Sustaining Turnaround at Scale.
Restructuring Resources for High-Performing Schools:
A Primer for State Policymakers
by Karen Hawley Miles and Karen Baroody with Elliot Regenstein
Education Resource Strategies
At this time of continued budget shortfalls when every dollar spent on education must yield maximum returns in student outcomes–states’ policies and regulations often inadvertently trap precious resources—making decision-making for districts even more difficult. Education Resource Strategies with EducationCounsel identifies four areas where state policymakers can make a big difference…
Seven Strategies for District Transformation
ERS, September 2010
Learn about the seven key strategies for districts to improve student performance at scale.
School Design:
Leveraging Talent, Time, and Money
ERS, October 2010
See how to align your resources with strategic school designs across your district.
Turnaround Schools:
District Strategies for Success and Sustainability
ERS, September 2010
Help ensure that efforts to turnaround the worst performing schools lead to sustainable improvement for the students.
The Strategic School:
Making the Most of People, Time, and Money
by Karen Hawley Miles and Stephen Frank
Corwin Press 2008
Learn how schools can best use the resources they already have.
How States Can Support Transformation in Tough Times:
Presentation, Council for Chief State School Officers, Moving Forward Conference
Education Resource Strategies, January 13, 2011
With escalating education costs in a time of declining school budgets, ERS articulates for state leaders opportunities to shift scarce funds toward the most critical areas. ERS Executive Director Karen Hawley Miles gave this presentation in Chicago at the conference Moving Forward with a Transformative Education Agenda hosted by the…
VUE: Voices in Urban Education:
Fall, 2010, Student-Based Budgeting
This issue of VUE includes an article by ERS’ Executive Director Karen Hawley Miles and Manager Naomi Calvo on how “strategic decentralization” and weighted student funding can transform school districts, empower principals, and increase student achievement.
ResourceCheck™ Tool:
Assess your District’s Resource Use
ERS, July 2010
Take an online self- assessment to learn how your district’s resource use measures up to best practice.
Essential School Practices: Examples from Seven Districts
Before schools can systematically implement a district’s vision for excellent school practices, district leadership must clearly articulate exactly what school strategies they believe will improve student learning. Many districts have gone to great lengths to communicate the “essential school practices” they want to see in their schools. Some use these…
Breaking the Cycle of Failure in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
by Jonathan Travers and Barbara Christiansen
ERS, April 2010
How one district is harnessing the critical levers of school leadership and teaching excellence to turnaround schools in the context of a larger school system.
Putting Money Where It Matters
by Karen Hawley Miles
Educational Leadership, September 2001
The focus on creating accountable standards-based schools is pushing districts and schools to more clearly define their goals and priorities for student learning. This analysis focuses on realigning spending and staffing in five ways by defining priorities for student performance.
Cincinnati One Plan and Rubrics:
A comprehensive operational plan for attaining school and district goals
ERS, 2005
Upon becoming CPS Superintendent, Rosa Blackwell enlisted ERS to conduct a comprehensive review of professional development needs, spending, and activities in an effort to better integrate professional development activities with district-wide performance objectives. The recent analysis expanded upon many of the issues identified in an audit by ERS in 2000-2001,…
Becoming a Capable and Accountable System:
A Review of Professional Development and Curriculum in the Baltimore City Public School System
ERS & Annenberg Institute for School Reform, 2004
Prepared by Education Resource Strategies and the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, This report reviews BCPSS’s use of professional development resources and identifies areas for investment as part of a state-specified audit for improving the district’s operations and performance.
