Evaluating ROI in K-12 Education
Education Resource Strategies
ERS helps school districts organize resources to drive greater opportunities and outcomes for all students.
School district leaders are currently facing the triple squeeze: intensified student learning needs, rising costs, and declining revenue due to reduced enrollment and the expiration of ESSER dollars.
In an environment of limited resources, it’s more important than ever that leaders prioritize strategies that actually improve student outcomes—and scale up what’s working and scale back what isn’t.
The insights we’ve gathered during our work with districts across the country have driven us to implement a new approach to evaluating strategy effectiveness (even before outcomes data is available): System Strategy ROI (SSROI).
With this approach, ALL stakeholders are aligned on the “why” and “how” of strategy implementation, enabling them to work together to execute, monitor progress, adjust costs, and continuously improve.
Learn more about SSROI with our new toolkit, which includes case studies of this process in action and an AI chatbot that can walk you through what SSROI might look like for your district context. ??
P.S. Interested in implementing SSROI in your district? Learn more about our 2025 national cohort of districts putting this approach into practice.?
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