HOW DOES IT WORK?
Use School Check to see how your decisions on resource use compare to best practices.
Improving your student performance starts with making sure your resource decisions are aligned with your goals for improving performance. This assessment helps you evaluate your resource choices to improve your school. Where are and where aren’t you using resources strategically? Are there any areas in which you could reduce spending? Areas where you should increase your current investment?
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OUR VISION FOR STRATEGIC SCHOOL DESIGN
Learn how to optimize resources—people, time, and money—for student success.
School Check is based on strategies and principles from this book, which explores the link between purposeful resource allocation and academic achievement.
This guide offers practical guidance for school districts to remedy specific resource misalignments that prevent the effective implementation of strategic school designs.
School Design in Action is an online collection of interactive profiles of schools across the country that are using resources in innovative ways to meet student and staff needs.
LEARN MORE ABOUT ERS
ERS has worked with districts around the country to organize resources—people, time, and money—to create high-performing schools at scale. Today’s declining budgets provide an unprecedented opportunity to make big changes. Learn more about the Seven Strategies »