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Coming Spring 2008: Small School Design Tools:

To indicate your interest in these tools, click here.

DREAM

District Resource Allocation Modeler (DREAM), A Web-Based Tool Supporting Strategic Use of Resources

Final Report, Education Resource Strategies & School Finance Redesign Project, July 2007.

We commend the effort and initiative here.  We feel this is what schools should be focusing on and love the fact that you are taking lessons you have learned and helping school districts apply them.  There is much need for more such application of learnings.

—Bridgespan

ERS Web-Based Tools

With support from the School Finance Redesign Project (SRFP) at the University of Washington’s Center on Reinventing Education and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ERS is designing several web-based tools to guide system and school leaders in understanding and maximizing their allocation of time, people, and money to support improved instruction.

These tools allow school leaders to understand their resource use at the district and the individual school level, linking staffing, spending, scheduling, and practice data together and providing school leaders with variety of scenarios to meet the program goals of all students.

DREAM – District ResourcE Allocation Modeler

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. 

DREAM:

• Identifies the key school system cost drivers and budget levers.
• Allows users to explore the impact of changes to key system-wide budget levers.
• Provides a framework of how high-performing urban schools organize resources to improve performance.
• Links research to specific district budget options.
• Allows users to experiment with specific design decisions around improved performance and see their budgetary impact.

To find out more about DREAM, go to www.erstools.org.

Small School Design Tools

A web-based software application will be available in the summer of 2007 to assist educators in the school design and redesign processes.

ERS Small Schools Tool

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 the results over time.

Read more about the ERS Small Schools Design Tool . . .

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