Welcome!

This survey is for staff members and volunteers at BESTT within the Saint Paul Public School District. The results of this survey are used in conjunction with the School Quality Review Process.

Please answer each of the following questions with the pull-down menus provided or by filling-in the blanks.

Submitting your answers is a two-part process. After answering all the questions, please click "finished." Your answers will then be listed, and your may review them. Then click "submit" to save your answers. You muct click both "finished" and "submit" for your answers to be recorded.

We have chosen to identify BESTT as a "school" within this survey, rather than as a "program", given that BESTT is located in a separate facility. You may wish to use the word "program" interchangably with the word "school" as you consider the following questions."


1. What is your role in the school?


2. How many years have you been a staff member or volunteer at your school?

3. Please complete the following statement in the comment box provided:
The focus/mission of our school is....

** SPPS's 2002-2005 Action Plan **

The following questions or statements ask you to describe your perspectives on the implementation of the Essential Efforts which are part of the District's 2002-2005 Action Plan. The following Essential Efforts pertain to Junior High and Middle School Programs.

4. Please describe your school's current implementation of research-based best practiced for instruction in the following areas:
a. Creative Arts

b. Language arts

c. Mathematics

d. Science

e. Social Studies

5. Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with the following statements relating to the Essential Efforts at your school:
a. Staff members at our school ensure that students develop the ability to work collaboratively with diverse groups of their peers.
b. Our school effectively involves parents in helping students to achieve standards.
c. Our school effectively involves community members and partners in helping students to achieve standards.
d. Our school promotes professional development to help all staff meet and exceed standards.
e. Our school implements a coherent and comphrehensive approach to documenting students' attendance.
f. Our school implements coherent and comprehensive intervention strategies to improve attendance for students who have poor attendance records.
g. Our school provides sufficient time for teachers, administrators, and other staff members to participate in school improvement efforts.
h. Our professional development activities include effective strategies for teaching students with diverse needs.

6. How would you rate your personal implementation of the following curricular areas?
a. Balanced Literacy
b. Integrated Math
c. Inquiry-based Science

** SPPS School Continuous Improvement Planning Process **

The following items ask you to describe your perspectives of the School Continuous Improvement planning process at your school.

7. Please state how much you agree or disagree with the following statements.
a. Our school have developed a mission/focus statement with input form stakeholders.
b. Our school actively supports a climate for change to improve school programs and raise student achievement.
c. Our school maintains a student information system that contains multiple sources of students' performance data.
d. Our school focuses student instruction on encouraging students to high levels of academic achievement.
e. Our school uses current data on students' academic performance data to guide decisions.
f. Our school is engaged in an organized, continuous improvement process based on the identified needs of our students.
g. School administrators regularly provide faculty analyses of student achievement data.
h. Our school develops and maintains a well-articulated curriculum.
i. Our school's educational programs emphasize the interrelationships among curricular areas.
j. Our school improvement plan contains diverse interventions to meet the needs of subgroups of students.
k. Our school provides equitable educational opportunities for all students.
l. The school leadership demonstrates a commitment to the school improvement process.
m. Faculty at our school use multiple assessments to set each student's academic goals.
n. Faculty members identify appropropriate interventions that will enhance student academic achievement.
o. The mission/focus statement for our school is used to guide decisions for our school.
p. Academic support is equally available for all students in our school.
q. Teachers in our school regularly work together to design curriculum and improve instruction.
r. Our school helps all students develop personal goals for the future.
s. Teachers in our school regularly work together to address students' needs.
t. Each student feels that there is at least one adult at school whom he or she knows and can talk to.

8. Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with the following statement. Our school has sufficient resources in the following areas to successfully implement the Essential Efforts and school improvement strategies:
a. Space
b. People
c. Instructional materials
d. Support programs
e. Team planning time
f. Curriculum planning
g. Instructional technology


9. Please write any comments you have about BESTT


10. Please write any comments you have about how the Saint Paul Public School District may assist your school improvement efforts


11. How satisfied are you with expressing your opinions about your school through this survey?

*** Please do not forget to answer Question #11. ***

Thank you for participating in this survey and contributing to your school's continuous improvement process!

Please remembers to click both "finished" here and "submit" on the next page.

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