Wednesday, October 20, 2010 • Posted by Elliot Watts
School Design Guide Now Available
We’ve just released with Ed Week our latest hands-on guide for district leaders. School Design: Leveraging Talent, Time and Money is a new guide and online self-assessment that serves as a district-level companion to the book, The Strategic School, written by ERS Executive Director Karen Miles and Director, Stephen Frank in 2008. “It’s been exciting to see all the ways school leaders have used our book to better align their resources with their instructional vision. But schools can’t do it alone.” says Miles. “This new guide will help districts provide the foundation and support necessary for all schools in the district to organize talent, time and money to maximize learning.” You can download free copies or purchase hard copies at edweek.org.
Here’s what’s available so far in the series:
- School Design, Leveraging Talent, Time and Money a step-by-step guide to rethink how schools organize resources to target every dollar toward what really matters. Plus an online School Design Self-Assessment.
- Seven Strategies for District Transformation, a guide outlining seven key strategies for districts to improve student performance at scale. Plus ResourceCheck, an online self-assessment tool that helps district leaders measure current resource use relative to best practices.
- Turnaround Schools: District Strategies for Success and Sustainability, a step-by-step guide providing a practical framework to help ensure that efforts focused on improving the worst performing schools lead to sustainable improvement for all students. Plus an online Turnaround Self-Assessment.
- School Funding Systems: Equity, Transparency, Flexibility a step-by-step guide on how to achieve equity, transparency and flexibility in funding practices. Plus: an online School System Funding Self-Assessment.
The final tool on The Teaching Job will be released in November, 2010.
Please take a look and let us know your comments.
