Welcome!

This survey is designed for staff members at Wellstone Elementary School within the Saint Paul Public School District. You answers are anonymous and results of the survey will be 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 "confirm" for your answers to be recorded.

Basic Information


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


2. What is your role in the school?


3. Please write-in names of any leadership committees you currently serve on.
Other:

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

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

TEACHERS ONLY: Please begin by answering Item #5.

All others please begin with Item #7.

5. 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

6. 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

7. Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with the following statements relating to the District's 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.

9. Please state how much you agree or disagree with the following statements related to continuous improvement planning:
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.

9. How much do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Our school has sufficient resources in the following areas to successfully implement the District's 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


10. Please rate your personal level of commitment to the School Continuous Improvement Plan (SCIP) at your school.

** School Specific Questions **

12. The following questions related specifically to Welstone Elementary School.
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12. Please write any comments you have about Wellstone Elementary


13. Please write any comments you have about how the Saint Paul Schools can help your school improvement efforts

14. 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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