Education Resource Strategies Inc.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
36 months
Description
Today’s students require learning experiences that are personalized, mastery-based, and student-centered to prepare them to thrive in a dynamic future. Expanding access to these kinds of learning experiences requires building the local capacity and conditions necessary to scale and sustain them. Education Resource Strategies (ERS) is a national nonprofit working to transform how schools and systems utilize resources – people, time, and money – so that they can reliably and equitably deliver high-quality learning experiences to all students. Over the last two decades, ERS has directly supported leaders of over 100 school systems. In addition to deep engagements with districts and states, ERS has produced more than 300 publications and tools over the last five years, attracting 100,000 annual visitors to their website. Corporation support enabled ERS to help districts strategically allocate ESSER funding to support pandemic recovery, including facilitating a strategy network with more than twenty districts and developing a set of tools to guide ESSER spending. General support from the Corporation will enable ERS to deepen their impact by expanding three organizational focus areas: leadership development, state-level practice, and tool and resource development.
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For knowledge building and technical assistance to accelerate strategic school and system redesign
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
36 months
Description
In order to equitably expand student access to high quality learning experiences, we need to augment the capacity of districts to support schools and manage change. This is precisely the work of Education Resource Strategies (ERS), a national nonprofit tackling the challenge of transforming how urban schools and systems organize resources—people, time, and money—so that every school is designed to serve every student. Through their innovative partnerships with districts, schools, and state leaders, ERS enables districts to develop and implement comprehensive improvement strategies that support strong schools with an integrated data analysis, design, and implementation model. With Corporation support, ERS will continue working in deep partnership with districts and build the field’s capacity to spread strategic systems that support all students.
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Project Title
For continued implementation of strategic school and district redesign partnerships at scale
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
While innovative K-12 educational models are now more prevalent than they were a decade ago, many students still lack access to the robust learning experiences these models afford. In order to expand student access to these experiences, school- and district- level capacity must be built to support innovation, quality implementation, and effective change management. This is precisely the work of Education Resource Strategies (ERS), a national nonprofit transforming how urban schools and systems organize people, time, and money so that every school is designed to serve every student. Through partnerships with districts, schools, and state leaders, ERS enables districts to develop and implement comprehensive improvement strategies that support strong schools with an integrated data analysis, design, and implementation model. With Corporation support, ERS will continue to support states and districts in effective resource management and undertake field-building activities to support schools beyond ERS’ direct engagements.
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Project Title
For a project to make Education Resource Strategies’ tools more accessible to a broader audience
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
11 months
Description
Innovation in the use of resources—time, staffing, technology, and money—is necessary to redesign schools such that all students are prepared for success. Education Resource Strategies (ERS) has developed a wide array of tools to help leaders redesign schools and systems through strategic allocation of resources, and many users are accessing and putting these resources to use. However, these tools are not reaching as many potential users as they could. Short term, this grant will enable ERS to partner with a user experience consultant to identify and prioritize opportunities to increase the reach and impact of ERS’ tools, and to make enhancements to ERS’s tools and resources. Long term, this project will help place ERS’ high-leverage tools into the hands of a much broader swath of practitioners and district decision-makers, including those not currently partnered with ERS. This one-time supplement to ERS’s board level grant directly supports one of the central goals of that grant: creating, improving, and expanding tools and resources to meet and grow demand for supports to organize resources differently.
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Project Title
For a project to support the redesign of schools and the systems that support them (districts, non-profit organizations, e.g.) and, for continued development of tools, resources, and research that meet growing demand from States and districts for redesign
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Though we have isolated examples of schools with extraordinary results serving students coming from poverty, we have not yet brought this work to scale such that all students are prepared for college and career. To achieve change at scale, we need to shift how both systems and schools are organized. Education Resource Strategies (ERS) works with district, state, and school leaders to transform how urban schools and systems employ resources—people, time, and money—so that every school is designed and resourced to serve every student. The proposed project will build on ERS’ previous accomplishments through three core areas of work: 1) Enable transformational school and system redesign work by subsidizing deeper partnerships – with both schools and system leaders – with a targeted number of ‘tipping point’ school districts; 2) Create, improve, and expand tools and resources that can reach a broader audience of education reformers; and 3) Disseminate learning and build capacity among partner organizations to maximize knowledge sharing.
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For general support and activities to increase the field’s understanding of school and system designs
Date
Sep. 12, 2013
Duration
36 months
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Project Title
For development and dissemination of knowledge products
Date
Sep. 16, 2010
Duration
36 months
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Project Title
For development and dissemination of publications and implementation tools
Date
Jun. 11, 2009
Duration
15 months