The Results Are In!
Resource Allocation Impacts Student Achievement
National Poll conducted by the EPPG 2025
Educators nationwide have confirmed that without tight alignment, student growth is stunted. It’s not a matter of more; it’s a matter of the right kind. Yet many districts continue to allocate resources that 1) are not connected to the improvement process, and 2) do not align with the Force Multiplier Principle. Comprehensively situating adults is the key to sustained improvement. Meaning, when everyone is focused on only those practices that will grow students, the evidence of impact can be accurately demonstrated.
FORCE MULTIPLIERS
Excellence can only happen when ALL resources are focused on the levers of improvement. Here are the steps leaders need to take when asking the essential question: If nothing were holding the improvement team back, how would every resource be aligned?
Look through the lens of what students need within each school.
Where would the most effective educators be assigned?
Identify the most impactful teachers, related service providers, and principals.
Are they at schools with the least or most need?
Identify the types of professional development and adult learning that are needed to comprehensively instruct the FULL continuum of learners.
Lean into the IT department. They are experts in integrating data systems.
Focus only on those resources (human, fiscal, material) that will support the improvement actions.
Support the adults throughout the organization in financial, data, and legal literacy.
When everyone in the system is focused on ONLY those practices that will have the greatest impact on all students, including students with neurodivergent and generational differences, will achieve. This ensures every resource is aligned, implemented, and monitored for impact.
The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies its strength. This is organization.
~ James Cash Penney
