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For more than a decade, ERS has been working with urban school system leaders to strategically reallocate resources to improve student performance. Through this work, we have gained unparalleled knowledge and experience in the challenges and opportunities urban school systems face today – and how to meet those challenges to help every student succeed.
We'd like to share what we've learned with you and your colleagues by sharing this collection of resources and tools ERS has developed. Check back often, as new resources will be added continuously.
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,…
Tags: school systems, school design, schools, instructional systems
by Karen Hawley Miles
New American Schools
This article compares the different levels of resources between schools within districts and how to change the method for allocating resources to a student-based approach. Published in Peabody Journal of Education, Winter, 2005.
Tags: school systems, resource allocation, per pupil spending
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.
Tags: school systems, teaching effectiveness, professional development, human capital, teaching, instructional systems
by Karen Hawley Miles, A. Odden, M. Fermanich, S. Archibald, and A. Gallagher
Journal of Education Finance, Summer 2004 Volume 30, Issue 1, pgs. 1-26
Tags: teaching effectiveness, professional development, human capital, teaching
by Karen Hawley Miles
Staff Development Journal, Summer 2003
Good professional development is not the same thing as a good professional development strategy. The analysis looks at creating a powerful professional development plan that touches on every aspect of school and district organization.
Tags: school systems, teaching effectiveness, professional development, human capital, teaching
Leveling the Playing Field:
Creating Funding Equity Through Student-Based Budgeting
by Karen Hawley Miles, Kathleen Ware, and Marguerite Roza
Phi Delta Kappan, 2003
Traces the Cincinnati Public School district process of moving to a system of student-based budgeting: funding children rather than staff members and weighting the funding according to the schools’ and student’s needs.
Tags: school systems, resource allocation, per pupil spending
by D. McAdams, M. Wisdom, S. Glover, A. McClellan
Center for Reform of School Systems, 2003
A report written for the Education Commission of the States by the Center for Reform of School Systems. December 2003. Using case studies from Boston, Cincinnati and Houston, authors provide strategies for creation of an effective district accountability system.
Tags: school systems, accountability
by Karen Hawley Miles
American Education Finance Association, January 2003
Draft of chapter for American Education Finance Association 2003 Yearbook School Finance and Teacher Quality: Exploring the Connections.
Tags: teaching effectiveness, professional development, human capital, teaching
ERS, 2002
A study of Chicago district Public Schools and tools for aligning professional development to student achievement. Published in partnership with Education Resource Strategies, 2002
Tags: teaching effectiveness, professional development, human capital, teaching
by Karen Hawley Miles and Matthew Hornbeck
ERS, 2001
After four years of implementing Student’s First, a powerful strategic plan for improving student performance, the Cincinnati Public School System has put structures in place to encourage district wide improvement.
Tags: teaching effectiveness, professional development, human capital, teaching
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