The Teaching Job:
Restructuring for Effectiveness
ERS, December 2010
Take action to improve teaching and learning across your district’s schools.
Entries tagged with: Professional Development
School Design:
Leveraging Talent, Time, and Money
ERS, October 2010
See how to align your resources with strategic school designs across your district.
The Strategic School:
Making the Most of People, Time, and Money
by Karen Hawley Miles and Stephen Frank
Corwin Press 2008
Learn how schools can best use the resources they already have.
Case Studies of Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools
Read the nine detailed case studies that helped inform the report: Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools.
Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small High Schools
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.
Strategic Professional Development Review
by Regis Anne Shields and Karen Hawley Miles
Harvard Education Press, 2009
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 buying. This chapter, from A Grand Bargain for Education Reform edited by Theodore Hershberg and Claire Robertson-Kraft, details…
Teaching Quality Brief
ERS, 2009
This brief describes a vision for investing in teaching quality at the school level and provides guiding questions.
Strategic Professional Development Review of the School District of Philadelphia
ERS, 2008
Prepared by Education Resource Strategies, this report reviews the School District of Philadelphia’s (SDP) use of professional development resources. Despite Philadelphia’s low and unstable funding of professional development, ERS identifies ten opportunities SDP has to improve its teaching quality and leadership capacity. Most importantly, SDP needs to create an adequately…
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.
Inside the Black Box of Professional Development Spending:
Lessons from Comparing Five Urban Districts
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
The Big Picture: District Professional Development Strategy
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.
Rethinking District Professional Development Spending to Support School Improvement:
Lessons from Comparative Spending Analysis
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.
Chicago Public Schools Professional Development Project
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
Getting to the Heart of School Improvement:
Integrating Professional Development Spending in the Cincinati Public Schools
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.
Reinvesting in Teachers:
Aligning District Professional Development to Support a Strategy of Comprehensive School Reform
by Karen Hawley Miles and Matthew Hornbeck
New American Schools, 2000
This article explores options for rethinking how best to support teachers and schools in meeting higher standards.
Professional Development Spending in the Boston Public Schools:
A Joint Report of the Boston Plan for Excellence and the Boston Public Schools
by Karen Hawley Miles, 1999
ERS performed a repeat analysis in 2001 which showed resources being used in much more focused, integrated ways to support the district wide professional development strategy. An additional Professional Development audit, performed by Rachel Curtis, Associate Superintendent for Teaching and Learning, using the ERS coding scheme, has resulted in recommendations…
