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Publications Compensation School Leaders

Toolkit: New Teacher Support

All school and district leaders want to grow their new teachers into effective educators who stay at their schools - yet most feel constrained by limited budgets. But it is possible to... More »

Compensation Leadership Teaching Toolkits
April 2017

Connected Professional Learning for Teachers

Teachers need more support to meet the demands of college and career ready standards. Where can schools systems find the money, staff, and time to provide truly transformational... More »

Compensation Publications District Leaders School Leaders ERS in California
April 2013

Misfit Structures & Lost Opportunities

One out of a series of three ERS publications on teacher compensation, this paper explores how to rethink compensation and career paths to attract and retain the most effective teachers. More »

Teaching Professional Learning Publications
March 20, 2013

Case Studies of Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools

These nine detailed case studies of small urban high schools served as the foundation for ERS’ report Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools. We dubbed... More »

School Design Publications
March 12, 2013

VUE: Voices in Urban Education

The Annenberg Institute for School Reform’s Voices in Urban Education publication, produced in partnership with ERS, grew from the ERS-convened Fair Student Funding Summit in March 2010.... More »

School Funding Student-Based Budgeting Publications
January 2013

One Vision, Seven Strategies

One Vision, Seven Strategies is the culmination of ERS' deep experience working with school systems around the country. It presents our vision for transforming school systems and why... More »

Publications
December, 2012

Rethinking the Value Proposition to Improve Teaching Effectiveness

One of a series of three publications on rethinking teacher compensation. Rethinking the Value Proposition to Improve Teaching Effectiveness explores the complete set of offerings and... More »

Teaching Professional Learning Publications
November 2012

Strategic Design of Teacher Compensation

This paper explores typical goals of compensation redesign and implications for five main design considerations, including: base salary, district priority incentives, school roles,... More »

Teaching Professional Learning Publications
October 2012

Fair Student Funding in Baltimore City

This full report of Baltimore Public Schools (City Schools) explores the implementation process and results of a fair student funding system. Fair Student Funding in Baltimore City (PDF) More »

School Funding Student-Based Budgeting Presentations Publications
September 2012

Fair Student Funding and Other Reforms

After examining Baltimore City Public Schools' implementation of fair student funding and accompanying reforms, ERS shares the extent to which City Schools met the objectives and... More »

School Funding Student-Based Budgeting Presentations Publications
April 18, 2012

School Budget Hold'em Facilitator's Guide

These easy-to-use instructions will help leaders organize and play School Budget Hold'em as a group. The Facilitator's Guide provides three different approaches for playing the game based... More »

Tools Publications
March 15, 2012

Sustaining Turnaround at Scale Summit Briefs

This series compiles and analyzes the results of our Sustaining Turnaround at Scale Summit held in October 2011. More »

Turnaround Publications
December 2011

The Resourceful School: Turning Crisis into Opportunity

The December 2011 Issue of Education Leadership focuses on tough times and strategies for making the most of decreasing budgets. ERS’ Karen Hawley Miles and Naomi Calvo (formerly from... More »

School Design Publications
October 2011

Transformation or decline?

Tough times provide school districts with the opportunity to make big changes, helping alleviate the budget pressure in the short term and create a new foundation that will provide the... More »

Leadership School Design Special Education School Funding School Partners and Community School Support Standards and Curricula Teaching Publications
September 2011

Act Now to Transform School Systems

Facing turbulent economic times, school districts instinctively fight to maintain their head above water, trying to minimize the damage being done. What if instead districts and state... More »

Special Education Publications
June 7, 2011

Restructuring Resources for High-Performing Schools

Millions of education dollars are trapped each year. At this time of continued budget shortfalls when every dollar spent on education must yield maximum returns in student... More »

Special Education Publications
January 2011

Turning Around the Nation’s Lowest Performing Schools

Across the country, states and school districts are focusing on turning around the nation’s lowest-performing schools. This focus on school turnaround, while welcome, is not new. And... More »

School Support Turnaround Publications
December 2010

The Teaching Job

Recent work on improving teaching effectiveness has focused on preparing and hiring better teachers and on identifying and removing the lowest-performing teachers. These efforts are... More »

Teaching Tools Publications
October 2010

Memphis White Paper

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 Memphis City... More »

School Funding Presentations Publications
October 2010

School Design

The growing urgency to design schools that work, coupled with crippling state and local budget reductions, means it is more important than ever to make investments where it really... More »

School Design Tools Publications
April 2010

Breaking the Cycle of Failure in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools

In this case study of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Strategic Staffing Initiative, Education Resource Strategies (ERS) and the Aspen Institute tell the important story of how one district is... More »

School Design School Support Turnaround Presentations Publications
March 2010

Fair Student Funding Summit: District Summaries

In March 2010, urban education leaders gathered in Baltimore, MD for the Fair Student Funding Summit, a conference that brought together districts that use weighted student funding (WSF)... More »

School Funding Student-Based Budgeting Publications Funding & Portfolio
April 2009

Realigning Resources for District Transformation

This paper, written with the Center for American Progress, gives state and district leaders 15 concrete ways to use all resources—current and new—for long-term transformation. More »

Leadership School Design School Funding School Partners and Community School Support Standards and Curricula Teaching Publications
2009

Strategic Professional Development Review

Before district leaders can expand professional development to better support teachers, they must first determine not only the current investment level but also what that investment is... More »

Teaching Professional Learning Publications
2008

The Strategic School

How can schools best use the resources they already have? That question is at the heart of this inspiring book for school and district administrators challenged with increasing student... More »

School Design School Funding School Support Teaching Publications
2008

District Spending in Small and Large High Schools

Do districts have to spend more to create small schools? This report finds that three large urban districts spend more on small high schools than on large high schools — but they don’t... More »

School Design School Funding Publications
2008

By Design Not Default

School districts across the country are redesigning their portfolios of high schools to include more small high schools. ERS’s work demonstrated a clear and consistent pattern: districts... More »

School Design School Funding Publications
2008

Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small High Schools

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’... More »

Publications
2006

Understanding Student-Weighted Allocation as a Means to Greater School Resource Equity

As attention shifts to how districts allocate resources to schools, student-weighted allocation has emerged as an alternative to traditional staff-based allocation policies.... More »

School Funding Student-Based Budgeting Publications
August 01, 2003

Chicago Public Schools Professional Development Project

This project began as a result of a concern about how to strengthen the professional development of teachers and leaders throughout the Chicago Public Schools. Leaders of the district as... More »

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