Seattle Schools Community Forum

 From SPS Communications: Seattle Public Schools will be asking staff, students, families for feedback on schools through an annual phone and email survey. Questions will include topics such as effective communication and school safety. The District will email or call all families the week of Jan. 13 and do a second round the week of Jan. 20. The calls and e-mails will be in the home-language spoken.  The family survey on our schools will be administered through School Messenger. The student and staff survey are paper based and will occur between Jan. 6 and 17.  We appreciate your participation in this year’s family survey. If you have any questions please email research@seattleschools.org . Fifth-graders at Thornton Creek have joined the discussion on the new Seattle game show, " What's Up with Bertha?"   (If you missed it, Bertha is the world's largest tunneling machine that is now stuck under the Viaduct. Why?  No one knows or, if they do,...

From SPS Communications: Hearing from our families, staff, and students is critical to our efforts to improve education for every student. School climate surveys are given each spring to all students, school staff, and families in the district . We are gathering information about learning environments at our elementary, middle and high schools, including student engagement, academic rigor, discipline and safety, and family involvement. Results of these surveys will help inform how we support each students’ academic success and can be found online here http://bit.ly/school_reports . The family survey will be administered starting June 5 via the district's automated SchoolMessenger system, which will allow families to provide feedback by touch-tone phone response or an online web survey sent by e-mail. SchoolMessenger Calendar for Family Survey There will be two opportunities to take the survey by phone. Phone calls at 6 p.m. on: • June 5 and June 12: Element...