School Design:
Leveraging Talent, Time, and Money
ERS, October 2010
See how to align your resources with strategic school designs across your district.
Entries tagged with: School Size
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.
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.
Academy of the Pacific Rim:
Case Studies of Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools
by ERS
Case Study, 2008
Case Studies of Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools
Noble Street Charter High School
by ERS
Case Study, 2008
Case Studies of Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools
University Park Campus School
by ERS
Case Study, 2008
Case Studies of Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools
Life Academy of Health & Bioscience
by ERS
Case Study
Case Studies of Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools
Cost of Small High Schools
ERS, 2007
Literature Review:
This document considers the limited research on small high school costs, resource use, and constraints to understand the key questions surrounding the topic and identify further areas for investigation.
District Spending in Small and Large High Schools:
Lessons from Baltimore City, Boston, and Chicago
ERS, 2008
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 necessarily have to. While this higher spending is not necessarily undesirable, it is also not always sustainable, particularly given…
Small Schools Tool
ERS, 2008
The tool will assist in analyzing the impact of the school design on budgets and schedules as well as other critical indicators such as class size, teacher load, and time spent on core academics. For school redesign the tool can model several years of resource allocation choices and then compare…
Learning From the Mavericks:
Lessons for Districts From Small Urban High Schools
by Regis Shields & Karen Hawley Miles
Education Week Commentary, August 5, 2008
Creating new small high schools out of large failing ones continues to be a popular strategy for tackling high dropout rates and low performance in urban high schools. But, too often, districts create high-cost mini-versions of their large failing high schools because they do not have a vision of how…
Smart Use of Resources Key to Small High School Success
by Regis Shields
Press Release, June 3, 2008
Detailed report highlights the importance of focusing on teacher quality, increasing academic time and providing individual attention in high-performing small high schools.
Do Districts Have to Spend More Money on Small High Schools?
by Stephen Frank
Press Release, January 26, 2008
PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Stephen Frank
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WATERTOWN, Mass., January 26— In this era of tight budgets, schools and districts are under increasing pressure to make every dollar count. Many educators believe small schools are one answer to poor performance and low graduation rates…
