This team traveled to the center of the universe and was disappointed. Also, the district who acted or is planning to act on 28 of 36 recommendations
What is Tulsa?
100
This project team traveled to all four points of the compass and may be the only team in ERS history to write a 25-page nationally targeted report in a mere 64 pages.
What is the Gates PL team?
100
The answer to this question on this year's ERS team survey was 87.4.
What is ERS employee satisfaction?
100
"I've learned more about my district today than I learned all of this past year."
Who is Desmond Blackburn from the ESSA Financial Transparency cohort with Chiefs for Change?
100
This organically formed, cross-functional team’s responsibilities include advising the Leadership Team; and they also know each other’s favorite restaurants in Boston
What is the Organizational Development & Inclusion team?
200
This district's principals overwhelmingly agreed that the transition to SBB was managed effectively.
What is Indy?
200
This State Board of Education; West Ed; EdTrust West; the Collaborative for Education Excellence; LCFF Research Collaborative; PACE; 2 County Offices of Education
What are connections already made by the ERS California Office?
200
The ERS core services team improved services to the organization in this percentage of the categories measured in the ERS team survey.
What is 100%?
200
"This project is a dream come true."
Who is Bob Spencer, Principal Funder of the Oakland Citywide Project?
200
Julian, Audrey, Eli, Henry, Sebastian and Sabine, Jivan, Daniel, Blake, Andy and Barbara
Who are additions to the ERS family via stork, wedding or proposal?
300
This small but mighty team was tasked with creating a school design for a district's most troubled school, with the hope of creating a template emphasizing collaborative planning time to share across the state.
What is Holyoke?
300
There were 39,536 of these at ERS in the last year.
What is a new website users?
300
The following convenings have this in common: Aspen CFO Fall & Spring Convening; Budget Partner Training in Oakland; Multiple Board Meetings; The ERS Retreat; New Hire Orientation; CFC ESSA sessions; 3 Manager Training; Communications Retreat; System 2020 Retreat; Holiday Party; Family Fun Day; NHO BBQ; Monthly ERS Lunches
What are convenings successfully orchestrated by the ERS administrative team in the last year?
300
"For the last decade ERS has been the gold standard of who urban districts want to work with for advice. What stands out is data analytics, tools and the ability to go deep."
Who is Tom Boasberg, Denver Superintendent?
300
Any two of the four sets of initials shared by multiple ERS team members.
What are AW, KM, KS and NS?
400
The team supporting high school redesign in this district recently completed an engagement summary that sets the standard for district partner engagement and knowledge management moving forward.
What is OUSD?
400
ERS presented to teams or individuals from 117 of these in the last year.
What are districts?
400
This understaffed ERS team made 525 of these during 2016.
What is: unique payments made to external vendors by the Finance Team?
400
"I can't think of another organization that can hold a mirror up to a district and show them how they spend their dollars. And it's a mirror they cant hold up to themselves. If a budget is a statement of priorities, then this is the first time for most districts that they see what their budgets prioritize."
Who is Noah Wepman, Senior Program Officer with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?
400
VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE!
The Core Value being described here...
What is Impact?
500
At least in part due to our work, the mayor of this city allocated $180 million over 3 years! This $60 million per year closes half the gap we identified for the coming year and lets schools add back to their budgets.
What is Baltimore?
500
ERS's score on this metric was 71 - a clear indication of ERS' great reputation
What is the Net Promoter Score?
500
Thanks to the tech team, 20 seconds is the new 10 minutes when ERS team members do this?
What is: retrieve CAPS datasets via Excel instead of retrieving the data via cross-project reporting?
500
“There is a lot of heat going on and you have helped bring some light.”
Who is Sonja Santelises, Superintendent of Baltimore City Schools?
500
Carnegie, Hewlett, Gates, Schusterman, and Overdeck
Who are national funders that have made commitments in 2017 so far?