Overview 

If you’ve been around DPS for long, you’ll know that we love our surveys.  And now there’s even more to love about them! Beginning in the 2020-21 school year, DPS enacted a comprehensive survey strategy to ensure we receive input from our students, families and team members to inform upcoming district-level decisions. In addition, school-level survey results are playing a  role in your school-level continuous improvement efforts.

Several things have converged to make 2020-21 a good time to revamp our survey strategy.

1. Responding to the changing health environment has necessitated frequent pivots, and led to the increased use of surveys for including student, educator, and family voices in decision-making.
2. Reimagining the SPF means that we have an opportunity to revisit and revise the Family Satisfaction and Student Satisfaction surveys.

The Impact Office is serving to coordinate district-wide surveys that engage stakeholders (students, educators, and families) regularly over the course of the school year, and is working closely with Academics, Equity & Engagement, Operations, Schools and Communications  to align survey items and reporting. Read below to learn more about the planned surveys for this school year and learn more about our findings. 

Have questions about our survey strategy or ideas for how to improve? Email Laura Rech on the Research & Evaluation team at surveys@dpsk12.org

Types of Surveys

Well-Being & Learning Surveys. In-depth surveys sent to students, families and team members focused on progress monitoring DPS’ crisis priorities, the equity cornerstone and experience with student remote/in-person learning. 

Health & Safety Touchpoints. Sent to team members working in-person during the 2020-21 school year and are focused on health & safety practices. 

Survey Schedule & Results 

August

• Connection Week Survey Questions

September 

• Well-Being & Learning Survey Questions (students, families and team members)
• Student and Family Dashboards
• Overall Team Member Results
• District-Wide Results & Analysis

November/December

• Well-Being & Learning Survey Questions (students, families and teachers/SSPs)
• District-Wide Results & Analysis 
• Student Results
• Family Results
• Overall Teacher/SSP Results

January & February

• Health & Safety Touchpoint (DPS team members)

February

• CollaboRATE Engagement & Self-Identification (DPS team members)
  • If you have team level results, see the goal-setting page on the CollaboRATE site for additional details on where to access results.

March

• Well-Being & Learning Surveys: Student, Family, & Team Member Results
• Well-Being & Learning: Student Survey Results
• Well-Being & Learning: Family Survey Results
• Well-Being & Learning: Team Member Results

April

• CollaboRATE Leader Survey (DPS team members)
• Customer Service Survey (school leaders, secretaries and supervivors)

May

• Student End of Year Survey Questions 2020-2021
• Family End of Year Survey Questions 2020-2021
• Student End of Year 2020-2021 Dashboard
• Family End of Year 2020-2021 Dashboard