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This survey is designed for staff members involved with School Readiness or Community Kindergarten Programs within the Saint Paul Public School District. Results of the survey are used in conjunction with School/Program Quality Reviews.

Please answer each question with the pull-down menus or by filling-in blanks.

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


1. How many years have you been a staff member of a program for 4 year-olds?


2. What is your role in the school?


3. Please indicate on which leadership committees you currently serve (Check all that apply.) If you serve on a school committee that is not listed, please write the name of the committee(s) in the box provided	Advisory Group Goal Group "Designing Your Future" Steering Team Family Education Program Site Council
Other:

4. Please complete the following statement in the comment box provided.

"The focus/mission of our program is..."

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

The following questions ask you to describe your perspectives on the implementation of Essential Efforts, which are a part of the District's 2002-2005 Action Plan, and the implementation of best practices in your program.

5. Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with the following statements relating to the Essential Efforts of the District's 2002-2005 Action Plan.
a. Our program has a plan for marketing the program to prospective students and their families.
b. Our program effectively involves community members to help students achieve early childhood standards.
c. Staff members in our program foster student's abilities to work collaboratively with diverse groups of their peers.
d. Our program implements coherent and comprehensive intervention strategies to improve attendance of students who have poor attendance records.
e. The capacity of our site council to involve diverse participants (including educators, parents, and community members from various ethnic communities) in decision-making is increasing.
f. The Early Childhood Program offers professional development activities that help all staff meet or exceed standards.
g. Students with special needs, and the programs that support them, are integrated into program-wide improvement efforts.
h. Our program implements a coherent and comprehensive approach to documenting students' attendance.
i. Our program effectively involves parents in helping students to achieve early childhood standards.
j. Our program provides sufficient time for all staff (including teachers, administrators, and paraprofessionals) to participate in program improvement efforts, for example "Designing Your Future" activities.
k. Our program's professional development activities include effective strategies for teaching students with diverse needs.

6. Please state how much you agree or disagree with the following statements:
a. Our program's mission/focus statement was developed with input from stakeholders.
b. Our program's environment supports making programmatic changes to increase student achievement.
c. Staff members in our propgram encourage students to achieve preparedness for kindergarten.
d. Our program's leaders use students' work sampling data to guide decisions.
e. Our program is engaged in an organized continuous improvement process.
f. Our program maintains a well-articulated curriculum.
g. Program leaders provide faculty with ideas about important and valuable ways to measure the pre-academic performance of 4 year-old students.
h. Our program's continuous improvement process is based on identified needs of the students.
i. Our program's educational programs contain interventions that appropriately meet the needs of subgroups of students.
j. Our program's leaders demonstrate a commitment to the program improvement process.
k. Faculty members implement intervention strategies that will enhance each student's preparedness for kindergarten.
l. The program's mission/focus statement is used to guide decisions for our program.
m. Teachers in our program regularly work together to improve instruction.
n. Teachers in our program regularly work together to address students' needs.
o. Our program's focus/mission is clearly communicated to student's families.

7. How much do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Our program has sufficient resources in the following areas to successfully implement the Essential Efforts of the District's 2002-2005 Action Plan and our program's improvement strategies:
a. Space
b. People
c. Instructional materials
d. Support programs
e. Team planning time
f. Curriculum planning
g. Instructional Technology


8. Please write any comments you have about your program


9. Please write any comments you have about how the Saint Paul Public Schools can help in your program improvement efforts

10. How satisfied are you expressing your opinions about your program through this survey?

*** Please do not forget to answer #10! ***

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

Please remember to click both "finished" here and "submit" on the next page!

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