November 2016
How Your School Design Can Meet Student Needs, Not Just Budget Demands

Each school year offers a fresh start for teachers and students. And strategic school leaders know that October through December can be a fresh start for next year's school planning. But why now, when the ink is barely dry on student and teacher assignments for the  current school year?

This is the time to create your vision for next year's strategic school design. By stepping back to clarify your vision, assess your needs, and begin to design the change, you can ensure that all your available resources - people, time, money, and technology - are organized to meet your students' needs and not just your allocated budget.

We created a school design framework and set of resources based on six key Design Essentials that we have observed in high-performing schools serving high-needs students.

Support for these Design Essentials starts with three steps:

1. Clarify Your Vision

2. Assess the Need

3. Design the Change
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WHY NOW? 
Because our students need more than a few great schools.

The call for increasing the rigor of instruction for all students, especially lower-income students and students of color, requires designing schools with the right structures to support this shift. To move beyond one-school-at-a-time reform to help every school create these structures, districts must seize the opportunity to support strategic school design by implementing targeted changes in policies, processes, and supports.

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Education Resource Strategies (ERS )  is a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming how urban school systems organize resources - people, time, and money - so that every school succeeds for every student.



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