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ResourceCheck™ Tool:
Assess your District’s Resource Use

ERS, July 2010

This web-based tool is designed to help you dive into the transformational strategies that lead to better resource use, ResourceCheck asks you a series of questions, and then tallies and…

Tags: tough times, school systems, resource allocation, school design, teaching effectiveness, schools, strategic designs, human capital, teaching, accountability, instructional systems

Time & Attention in Urban High Schools:
Lessons for Urban School Systems

by Stephen Frank
ERS, April 2010

ERS, with the National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL), released a paper that doucments how six urban school districts structure time compared to nine Leading Edge high schools.

Tags: school systems, school design, schools, strategic designs, academic time

The Strategic School:
Making the Most of People, Time, and Money

by Karen Hawley Miles and Stephen Frank
Corwin Press 2008

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 performance…

Tags: tough times, school systems, professional development, resource allocation, school design, teaching effectiveness, schools, strategic designs, human capital, per pupil spending, teaching, accountability, school size, academic time, instructional systems

By Design Not Default:
Optimizing District Spending on Small High Schools

ERS, 2008

Paper and tool that helps leaders understand and manage the drivers of small school spending.

Tags: school systems, resource allocation, school design, schools, strategic designs, school size

Tough Times as Opportunity

ERS, June 2009

This presentation lays out a powerful process that districts can use to lay the groundwork for the kind of reform that will outlast the short-term funding of the stimulus and lead to dramatic improvement in student achievement.

Tags: tough times, school systems, school design, teaching effectiveness, schools, teaching

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. Through interviews and reviews of class schedules, staffing strategies, budgets, and more, the report provides a detailed look at how…

Tags: school systems, professional development, school design, teaching effectiveness, schools, strategic designs, per pupil spending, teaching, school size, academic time