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Family Climate Survey

Presented by: Michelle Radtke, Director of Assessment

August 6, 2018

Why M Measure F Family C Climate?

• Family Engagement
• promotes school readiness, social-emotional growth, positive attitudes toward

school and academic success

• Centers on culturally-responsive and sustained relationships between family and

school staff in the shared responsibility of a child’s well-being

• ESSA and Title Requirements
• Define strategies to support successful school and family interactions
• Ensure effective involvement of parent and support a partnership among the

school, parents and the community to improve student academic achievement

• Feedback Loops

Action

• ns Taken

en

• Families want innovative opportunities for their child.
• LEAP was developed
• Families want more rigorous and challenging curriculum at all levels.
• School Improvement Plans have been revised to promote growth and

continuous improvement for every student.

• School facility use was the lowest rated service in the survey.
• Budget Development Committee reviewed the building rental policies and

worked with community non-profit groups to improve service and access.

• Families want more supervision of instructional staff.
• Educator effectiveness was implemented to improve the quality of

professional development and the supervision of principals and teachers.

Action

• ns Taken

en (Con Cont.)

• Families want breaks in the school year and to finish the school year

in early June.

• A new calendar was created with more professional development days before

students arrive for the school year and the end of school in early June.

• Families want to give more feedback about their experience with

schools rather than with the District as a whole.

• Families may take the survey for each school their children attend and

provide comments specific to their experience with those schools.

• Families wanted more students to have access to summer school
• pportunities.
• Barriers have been removed by partnering with community partners and

providing bussing.

Overall P Perce cepti tion o

• f Educati

tional Quality

85 80 54

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Family Climate (K12) Community (Springsted) National (Gallup) Percent Giving the District a Grade of “A” or “B”

Strategic P Plan an Priority ty Area #1: a #1:

Academic A Achievem emen ent

81 83 82

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Academic Support Rigorous & Challenging Programs Educational Programs & Services Percent Responding Strongly Agree or Agree

Strategic P Plan an Priority ty Area #2: a #2:

Student S Soci cial a and E Emotional G Growt wth

82 69 82 93 85

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Student Support Safety & Behavior School Operations Bus Transportation Educating the Whole Child

Percent Responding Strongly Agree or Agree

Strategic P Plan an Priority ty Area #3: a #3: Collaboration

Strategic P Plan an Priority ty Area a # # 4: 4:

High Q Quality S Staff

65 68

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

School Leadership Accountability Percent Responding Strongly Agree or Agree

Strategic P Plan an Priority ty Area a #5: #5:

Partne nershi hips with F h Families a and C d Communi nities

84 71

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Communication with the Principal Family Engagement Percent Responding Strongly Agree or Agree

Strategic P Plan an Priority ty Area #5: a #5: Partnerships with Families and Communities

Information Source How families CURRENTLY get information about school How families WANT to get information about school Email 88% 89% School Newsletter 73% 60% Child 68% 41% District Newsletter 46% 29% District Website 38% 28% Friends/Family 27% 11% Facebook 26% 27% Television 6% 8% Newspaper 3% 4% Radio 2% 4% Twitter 2% 2%

Next S Steps

• Share and review survey results with

building and District leadership teams

• Specify Family Engagement strategies in

all School Improvement Plans

• Continue to work on our facility use

policy

• Communicate to families the actions we

will be taking in response to the Family Climate survey.