School Budget Hold’em:ERS, November 3rd, 2011
Education funding decisions should never be left to chance. School Budget Hold ‘em 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.
The Resourceful School: by Naomi Calvo and Karen Hawley Miles
Educational Leadership, December 2011
The new Issue of Education Leadership focuses on tough times and strategies for making the most of decreasing budgets.
Sustaining Turnaround at Scale - Session Summaries
A brief description of every panel presentation from the ERS Summit, Sustaining Turnaround at Scale.
Memphis White Paper:ERS, October 27, 2010
If your school district is facing a budget issue, it might surprise you to learn that the solution might very well lie in a game of cards. That certainly was the case earlier this year for the city schools of Memphis, Tennessee.
Sustaining Turnaround at Scale - Posters:
Education Resource Strategies held a summit, “Sustaining Turnaround at Scale”. As part of the summit’s effort to compare different turnaround strategies, ERS created posters showing different and unique turnaround strategies.
Transformation or decline?: by Karen Hawley Miles
Kappan, October 2011
ERS Executive Director Karen Hawley Miles writes about strategies for restructuring, going in depth on four changes districts should consider to alleviate budget pressure while improving student performance.
Act Now to Transform School Systems by Karen Hawley Miles and Karen Baroody
PIE Network, September 2011
This article identifies seven priorities that could help districts invest in transformation. It then reviews the barriers that prevent change and the steps state policy makers can take to overcome the barriers.
Realigning Resources for District Success: by Jonathan Travers and Kristen Ferris
ERS, September 2011
After one year of in-depth resource analysis, ERS released a report on Duval County Public Schools (DCPS), Realigning Resources for District Success.
Restructuring Resources for High-Performing Schools: 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 TransformationERS, September 2010
Learn about the seven key strategies for districts to improve student performance at scale.
School Design:ERS, October 2010
See how to align your resources with strategic school designs across your district.
Turnaround Schools:ERS, September 2010
Help ensure that efforts to turnaround the worst performing schools lead to sustainable improvement for the students.
School Funding Systems:ERS, September 2010
Use existing resources more effectively by shifting spending, targeting cuts, and laying the groundwork for long-term change.
The Strategic School: by Karen Hawley Miles and Stephen Frank
Corwin Press 2008
Learn how schools can best use the resources they already have.
VUE: Voices in Urban Education:
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.
Read the nine detailed case studies that helped inform the report: Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools.
ResourceCheck™ Tool:ERS, July 2010
Take an online self- assessment to learn how your district’s resource use measures up to best practice.
by Regis Anne Shields and Karen Hawley Miles
ERS, 2008
This report illustrates how nine high performing, small urban high schools across the U.S. are thinking about and organizing their resources strategically to best meet their students’ most pressing needs.
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…
by Stephen Frank
ERS, April 2010
ERS, with the National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL), released a paper that documents how six urban school districts structure time compared to nine Leading Edge high schools.
ERS, 2008
Paper and tool that helps leaders understand and manage the drivers of small school spending.
ERS, June 2009
This presentation lays out a powerful process that districts can use to lay the groundwork for the kind of reform that will outlast the short-term funding of the stimulus and lead to dramatic improvement in student achievement.
by ERS
Case Study, 2008
Case Studies of Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools
by ERS
Case Study, 2008
Case Studies of Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools
by ERS
Case Study, 2008
Case Studies of Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools
by ERS
Case Study
Case Studies of Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools
ERS, 2007
Literature Review:
This document considers the limited research on small high school costs, resource use, and constraints to understand the key questions surrounding the topic and identify further areas for investigation.
ERS, 2008
This report finds that three large urban districts spend more on small high schools than on large high schools—but they don’t necessarily have to.
ERS, 2008
Download copies of resource worksheets from the book, The Strategic School: Making the Most of People, Time, and Money to measure how you currently use your resources and consider strategies for improving allocations to better support student learning.
Calculate how you currently use people, time, and money to support…
ERS, 2007
This web-based tool allows district leaders to test a variety of scenarios for resource use, and focus resources more strategically on their highest priority needs.
ERS, 2008
The tool will assist in analyzing the impact of the school design on budgets and schedules as well as other critical indicators such as class size, teacher load, and time spent on core academics. For school redesign the tool can model several years of resource allocation choices and then compare…
by Karen Hawley Miles
New American Schools
This article provides insight into how school systems nationwide are seeking to place more accountability for student performance with educators at the school level.
by Karen Hawley Miles
New American Schools
This article presents a framework for districts and schools to use when examining school infrastructures to better support academic success.
by Regis Shields
New American Schools, 2005
This article provides examples for principals and school leaders of approaches by five K-8 schools in Boston and Cincinnati that have reorganized schedules to allow for common planning time and literacy blocks.
by M. Roza & Karen Hawley Miles
Center for American Progress, July 2008
This paper released by the Center for American Progress explores the costs involved in expanding learning time for all students.
ERS, 2008
Download copies of resource worksheets from the book, The Strategic School: Making the Most of People, Time, and Money to measure how you currently use your resources and consider strategies for improving allocations to better support student learning.
Calculate how you currently use people, time, and money to support…
ERS, 2008
Download copies of resource worksheets from the book, The Strategic School: Making the Most of People, Time, and Money to measure how you currently use your resources and consider strategies for improving allocations to better support student learning.
Calculate how you currently use people, time, and money to support…
by Stephen Frank and Jonathan Travers
ERS, 2007
by Karen Hawley Miles
This paper released by the Center for American Progress explores the costs involved in expanding learning time for all students. 2006
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,…
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