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This survey is designed for staff members at Homecroft Elementary school within the Saint Paul Public School District. Results of the survey are used in conjunction with School 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.

Basic Information


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


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	Site Council Leadership Committee Student Focus Committee Quality Instruction Committee Staff Development Committee Family and Community Committee Systems for Continuous Improvement Committee
Other:

4. 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 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 at your school.

**Teachers please answer all the questions in this section. All others please answer only Questions #5 and #8 in this section.**

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 school has a plan for marketing the school and its programs to prospective students and their families.
b. Our school effectively involves community members to help students achieve high academic standards.
c. Our school is working to increase the diversity of students participating in gifted and talented programs.
d. Students who do not meet standards for promotion to the next grade level are provided opportunities to accelerate their learning.
e. Staff members at our school foster student's abilities to work collaboratively with diverse groups of their peers.
f. Our school implements coherent and comprehensive intervention strategies to improve attendance of students who have poor attendance records.
g. School personnel are using best practice research to strengthen our school's gifted and talented program.
h. 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.
i. Our school offers school-based professional development activities that help all staff meet or exceed standards.
j. Students with special needs, and the programs that support them, are integrated into school-wide improvement efforts.
k. Our school implements a coherent and comprehensive approach to documenting students' attendance.
l. Our school effectively involves parents in helping students to achieve high standards.
m. Our school provides sufficient time for all staff (including teachers, administrators, and paraprofessionals) to participate in school improvement efforts.
n. Our school's professional development activities include effective strategies for teaching students with diverse needs.

6. FOR TEACHERS ONLY: Please rate your personal skill level implementing research-based best practices in each of the following five areas, and then comment in the boxes provided.
a. Reading
Comments on Reading
b.Writing
Comments on Writing
c. Mathematics
Comments on Mathematics
d. Science
Comments on Science
e. Social Studies
Comments on Social Studies

7. FOR TEACHERS ONLY: How would you rate your personal implementation of the following three curricular areas?
a. Balanced Literacy
b. Integrated Math
c. Inquiry-based Science

8. Overall, how would you rate your school's implementation of the following three curricular areas?
a. Balanced Literacy

b. Integrated Math

c. Inquiry-based Science

** SPPS School Continuous Improvement Planning Process **

The following questions ask you to describe your perspectives on the School Continuous Improvement Process (SCIP) at your school.

9. Please state how much you agree or disagree with the following statements:
a. Our school's mission/focus statement was developed with input from stakeholders.
b. Our school's environment supports making programmatic changes to increase student achievement.
c. Our school's student information system contains multiple sources of student performance data (e.g. printed school profile from Research, Evaluation and Assessment office or online through SWIFT Knowledge and CLASS).
d. Faculty members in our school encourage students to achieve high levels of academic success.
e. Our school leaders use students' academic performance data to guide decisions.
f. Our school is engaged in an organized continuous improvement process.
g. Our school maintains a well-articulated curriculum.
h. School administrators regularly provide faculty with analyses of student achievement data (e.g. MCA, SAT10 scores).
i. School committees are organized around the School Continuous Improvement Plan (SCIP).
j. Our school's continuous improvement process is based on identified needs of the students.
k. Our school's educational programs emphasize the interrelationships among curricular areas.
l. Our school's educational programs contain interventions that appropriately meet the needs of subgroups of students.
m. Our school provides equitable educational opportunities for all students.
n. Our school's leaders demonstrate a commitment to the school improvement process.
o. The academic goals for students are based on multiple assessments.
p. Faculty members implement intervention strategies that will enhance each student's academic achievement.
q. The school's mission/focus statement is used to guide decisions for our school.
r. Our site council oversees the implementation of our School Continuous Improvement Plan (SCIP).
s. Academic support is equally available for all students in our school.
t. Teachers in our school regularly work together to improve instruction.
u. Our school's curriculum allows students to experience high academic standards.
v. Our school helps all students develop personal goals for the future.
w. Teachers in our school regularly work together to address students' needs.
x. Each students feels that there is at least one adult at school whom he or she knows and can talk to.
y. Our school's focus/mission is clearly communicated to school staff and student's families.

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


11. Please rate your personal level of commitment to the School Continuous Improvement Plan (SCIP) at Homecroft Elementary School.

** School Specific Questions **

THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ARE FOR TEACHERS ONLY. All other staff please skip to question #13. 12. The following questions relate specifically to Homecroft Elementary School. ****Parts a and b are specifically designed to be answered by mainstream teachers only.* ***Parts d, e, and f may be answered by all teachers.
a. FOR MAINSTREAM TEACHERS ONLY: Please rate your personal level of overall familiarity with the bilingual program at Homecroft Elementary (for example, but not limited to, program goals, learning objectives, curriculum, and other).
b. FOR MAINSTREAM TEACHERS ONLY: Do you feel that an inservice training outlining different aspects of the bilingual program at Homecroft would be useful for you?
If you answered yes above, please comment on which aspects of the program should be addressed during an inservice training:
FOR ALL TEACHERS: Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with the following statements.
c. The Restitution program at Homecroft effectively reduces the overall number of student behavioral incidents at the school.
d. An inservice training on the Restitution Program would help me implement the program more effectively.
e. FOR ALL TEACHERS: In the past five years, have you participated in a training on the implementation of the Restitution Program?


13. Please write any comments you have about Homecroft Elementary School


14. Please write any comments you have about the Saint Paul Public Schools

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

*** Please do not forget to answer #15! ***

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

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