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This survey is for staff members at Saint Paul Public School High Schools.

Please answer each of the questions with the pull-down menu provided or by filling the blank. When you are finished, click "finished." You will have an opportunity to review you answers. If you are satisfied with your responses, click "submit" to record your results. Please click "submit" only one time.

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Basic Information


1. You are a staff member or volunteer at which high school?


2. What is your role in the school?


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


4. Please indicate which leadership committees you currently serve on (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 NCA Steering Committee Leadership Committee Student Focus Committee Quality Instruction Committee Staff Development Committee Family and Community Committee Systems for Continuous Improvement Committee
Other:

** SPPS's Blueprint for Better High Schools **

The following questions ask you to describe your perspectives on the planning and/or implementation of the core components of SPPS's Blueprint for Better High Schools, which includes the development of small learning communities, as well as your involvement in these processes.

5. How would you rate your school's current implementation of the core components of SPPS's Blueprint for Better High Schools which includes the development of small learning communities?
a. Setting high academic standards for all students

b. Building relationships between teachers and students

c. Connecting school to the future for students

d. Promoting professional collaboration among teachers

e. Providing a wide range of classroom and extracurricular opportunities for all students

6. How involved have you been in the planning for and implementation of the core components of the SPPS Blueprint for Better High Schools, which includes the development small learning communities, at your school?
a. Setting high academic standards for all students
b. Building relationships between teachers and students
c. Connecting school to the future for students
d. Promoting professional collaboration among teachers
e. Providing a wide range of classroom and extracurricular opportunities for all students


7. Overall, please rate your level of commitment to the planning process for SPPS's Blueprint for Better High Schools, including the development of small learning communities, at your school


8. From your perspective, please rate the overall level of commitment by other school staff to the planning process for SPPS's Blueprint for Better High Schools, which includes the development of small learning communities, at your school?

9. Please rate how much you agree or disagree with the following statements relating to the Blueprint for Better High Schools, which includes the development of small learning communities, at your school.
a. Academic support is equally available for all students in our school.
b. Students and their parents are actively selecting a small learning community in which to enroll.
c. Teachers in our school regularly work together to design curriculum and improve instruction.
d. Students experience high academic standards through a curriculum of rigorous courses.
e. Each student in our school has at least one adult in the building who provides him or her with caring guidance and support.
f. Our school helps all students develop personal goals for the future.
g. Every student who enrolls in our school is eligible to enroll in a small learning community.
h. Teachers in our school regularly work together to address students' needs.
i. Each student feels that there is at least one adult at school whom he or she knows and can talk to.
j. Our school provides students a full complement of extracurricular activities and school programs.
k. All of our students have exposure to higher education and work, through one or more of the following: post-secondary options, internships, or career counseling.

** North Central Association & School Continuous Improvement Plans **

The following questions ask you to describe your perspectives relating to North Central Association (NCA) accreditation and the School Continuous Improvement Plan (SCIP).

10. Please state how much you agree or disagree with the following statements:
a. Our school has developed a mission/focus statement with input from 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 (from the student information system) to guide decisions.
f. Our school is engaged in an organized, continuous improvement process (as in NCA and SCIP) that focuses on individual student needs.
g. Our school addresses career awareness and employability skills of students.
h. School administrators regularly provide faculty analyses of student achievement data.
i. Our school has school committees organized around the School Continuous Improvement Plan (SCIP).
j. Our school develops and maintains a well-articulated curriculum.
k. Our school's educational programs emphasize the interrelationships among curricular areas.
l. Our school improvement plan contains diverse interventions to meet the needs of subgroups of students.
m. Our school provides equitable educational opportunities for all students.
n. The school leadership demonstrates a commitment to the school improvement process.
o. Faculty at our school use multiple assessments to set each student's academic goals.
p. Faculty members identify appropriate interventions that will enhance student academic achievement.
q. The mission/focus statement for our school is used to guide decisions for our school.
r. Our site council oversees the implementation of our School Improvement Plan (SCIP).

11. How much do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The school has sufficient resources to implement the core components for the Blueprint for Better High Schools in the following areas:
Space
People
Instructional materials
Programs
Team planning time
Curriculum planning


12. Overall, please rate your level of commitment to the School Continuous Improvement Plan (SCIP) at your school


13. From your perspective, please rate the overall commitment by other school staff to your school's School Continuous Improvement Plan (SCIP).


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


15. Provide any additional comments:

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

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