Highlights of Staff / Parent / Administrator Surveys!
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Staff!
• Relatively equal distribution of responses by building at the current moment!
• Staff classified themselves as a beginner (14%), confident on their own (46%), very
confident (37%)!
• In general the response time for technology assistance at the building and the district meets
or exceeds expectation!
• 94% responded agree or strongly agree that the principal support student use of
technology in the building!
• 30% of staff and had less than 10 hours of instructional technology training with in the last
four years with an additional 47% having less than 30 hours over the same timeframe!
• Staff indicate their biggest need right now is how to design learning projects using
technology followed by managing learning projects the use technology and developing
assessments for those technology projects!
• Staff indicated that their preferred professional development methods were school/district
provided training followed by on-demand learning, conference workshops, school study
teams and in school mentoring program!
• Staff overwhelmingly utilize email to communicate with parents while very little usage of
voicemail was identified!
• The remainder of the staff survey provides classroom usage and comfort level and is
provided to the professional development subgroup for their analysis.!
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Parent (1012 responses)!
• Relatively equal distribution of responses by building based on enrollment!
• Equal distribution of responses by grade (10-12% at each level K-8) !
• 100% responded that they have a computer and Internet at home for the child!
• 96% responded that they have wireless Internet access at the home!
• 41% responded that the child has an email address (decreased with lower ages)!
• 44% allow their children to access the Internet without direct supervision (decreased with
lower ages)!
• 19% responded that they have between zero and two Internet capable devices at home
while 38% responded that there are 6 or more devices!
• 70% responded that their child’s access to technology at school is adequate with 20% not
sure!
• 77% responded that they strongly agree or agree that their child has strong technology
skills!
• Math e-Suite is the most accessed software package from home!
• Less than 25% responded that their child accesses the custom typing, world book
Encyclopedia, espresso education, or discovery education videos from home!
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