For any passionate educator, understanding the social, emotional, and physical climate within your school is considered a best practice. Now more than ever, measuring how students, parents, teachers, and district leadership feel about your district’s learning environment becomes a crucial activity.

Assessing your school’s approach to how students learn will undoubtedly shape your near- and long-term goals, and climate surveys are the most comprehensive way to do just that.

Experience and opinion surveys are the most effective way to obtain information when multiple stakeholders are involved. With automated climate surveys, you can:

  • Deliver surveys in multiple formats
    Your stakeholders have unique preferences and capabilities for how they respond to surveys. Having multiple response methods such as online, paper, or even telephone interviews helps ensure equity and improves response rates so you get the greatest amount of feedback possible.
  • Collect a large amount of data efficiently
    When you’re asking the opinion of multiple audiences, having an automated delivery and response capture process saves time and makes it much easier to analyze the data.
  • Gain a comprehensive view of the school
    With different stakeholders comes different opinions. Surveys, particularly ones delivered online, can be customized and tailored according to your audience using a variety of advanced questionnaire techniques.
  • Give stakeholders a voice
    Automated response collection provides anonymity and confidentiality, ensuring the answers you receive are as honest as possible. Working with a 3rd party to conduct the survey further reassures stakeholders of confidentiality and an unbiased approach.
  • Make evidence-based decisions
    The results you obtain from client surveys will provide first-hand data to help you create tangible action plans.

Whether you choose to use a do-it-yourself solution or outsource the survey, It’s important to work with a partner who has experience developing and facilitating survey questions so that you can be sure the information you get is valid, reliable, and actionable. And finally, consider the timeliness of reports—be sure you are getting the information when you need it and in a format you can easily interpret. This lets you focus on your top priority: providing a roadmap that assures students, staff, and families that their education will continue to progress in a way that most equitably serves everyone.