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Resources and Tools to Support District Leadership with Strong Planning, Recruitment and Funding Practices

In addition to responding to the immediate needs of students and staff, district leaders also have to make strategic decisions around teacher recruitment and funding to ensure the district is set up for success in the future. The below tools and resources will help district leaders recruit a diverse teacher workforce, strategically utilize and track ESSER dollars and set action plans to achieve goals.

Category	Name	Type	Description
Teacher Workforce Recruitment	Addressing the Teacher Shortage & Diversifying the Educator Workforce Presentation The New Teacher Project		This presentation deck shares information about the short-term and long-term challenges school systems face to ensure students have daily access to excellent, diverse educators and how Spokane Public Schools set out to address those challenges.
	Addressing Teacher Shortages: Practical Ideas for the Pandemic and Beyond The New Teacher Project		This guide is designed to help district leaders understand and respond to the specific staffing challenges they’re facing. The guide is focused on time-tested strategies that will make an immediate impact: ideas for covering absences, filling existing vacancies and addressing chronic shortages exacerbated by the pandemic in key subject areas.
	Partnering on Prep: A Toolkit for Building Strong District-Teacher Preparation Partnerships that Support a Diverse Workforce Education First		This toolkit was designed for district and teacher preparation programs that want to launch new partnerships or partner more effectively with one another. It includes tools and resources to support these partnerships through the 10 stages of creating and maintaining a strong partnership that supports a diverse workforce.
	Self-Assessment for District-Teacher Preparation Partnerships Education First		This self-assessment will help district and teacher preparation programs assess the strength of their partnership and identify areas where they can improve. After taking the self-assessment, partners should review the full toolkit to access resources for their areas of improvement.
	Innovative Staffing Models to Sustain Teacher Residencies Education First		This paper documents successful approaches teacher preparation programs and districts have used to develop and implement high-quality, sustainable and affordable teacher residencies.
Funding and Resource Allocation	Progress Monitoring for Spending ESSER Funding Education Resource Strategies		This presentation deck shares information on how other systems are monitoring the progress of their ESSER II/III spending plans and creating transparency in the face of uncertainty.
	Using this Moment for Structural Change Education Resource Strategies and The New Teacher Project		This presentation deck guides participants to consider how district leaders can use this moment to create lasting structural change that centers equity, accelerates student learning and ensures sustainable funding for the future.
	Alliance for Resource Equity Toolkit Education Resource Strategies		Educators, school system leaders, advocates and families can use this toolkit to start conversations, create shared understandings and build action plans together.
	The Education Combination: 10 Dimensions of Education Resource Equity to Unlock Opportunities for Every Student Education Resource Strategies		This paper provides state and district leaders, educators, families and community advocates with an overview of ten dimensions of education resource equity, including: A vision for what it should look like, research-backed reasons for why it matters, key questions to consider and examples of challenges and trends from states, districts and schools.
	Resource Equity Diagnostic for Districts Education Resource Strategies		This tool helps districts better understand the current state of education resource equity and excellence for students in their school system across all 10 dimensions.
	Guidebooks To Explore Underlying Causes and How To Make Changes To Your System Education Resource Strategies		These guidebooks are designed to help district leaders—in collaboration with school leaders, teachers, community members, advocates, students and families—reflect on their diagnostic results and unpack diverse perspectives. The guidebooks provide a structure for identifying the root causes of a school system’s challenges and choosing promising actions that are based on the needs of students in the community.
Goal Setting, Action Planning and Teaming	Transformational Leadership Framework 2020: Transforming Schools for a New Reality New Leaders		Grounded in the research behind New Leaders’ Transformational Leadership Framework (TLF), a tool that pinpoints the most effective leadership practices to improve student achievement, the 2020 framework covers five key categories: Learning and Teaching, School Culture, Talent Management, Planning and Operations and Personal Leadership. The framework articulates leader actions at three key levels—the system, the school and the team. This framework considers these categories through the lens of leading through crisis while highlighting areas where leaders have the opportunity to re-envision what their school systems, schools and classrooms can be.
	Personal Leadership Action Plan Template New Leaders		This action planning template can help leaders determine the steps/tasks/deliverables and timeline to move closer to the team’s vision and goal.
	Coherence Toolkit Education First		This toolkit will help create coherent systems by addressing the drivers of system fragmentation. System leaders can do this by building focus and coordination within and across agencies, consistently engaging educators in cultivating trusting relationships to build a shared sense of purpose, changing behaviors at scale throughout all levels of the organization, and thinking and working in equitable ways to ensure that equity is the cornerstone of work.
	Continuous Achievement Planning Tacoma Public Schools		This overview document shares Tacoma Public School’s continuous achievement planning process.
	Academic Acceleration and Teaming Practices New Leaders		This presentation shares the four traits of a healthy team and a framework for achieving team success.