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TELL Colorado

Teaching, Empowering, Leading & Learning Initiative

April 13–May 11, 2009

Official TELL website

Video from CEA President Beverly Ingle

TELL Colorado what you think about:

Take the TELL Colorado Survey and let state and local policymakers know what you think.

Take the TELL Colorado Survey, available online April 13–May 11, 2009. It only takes 20 minutes. It’s completely confidential and cannot be traced to any individual. Encourage your colleagues to take it too. Each building with at least 50% participation will get its own data report for use in school improvement.
To learn more, go to TELLColorado.org

WHO?           
All school-based K-12 licensed teachers and specialists (librarians/media specialists, special  ed teachers, school psychologists, social workers, speech therapists, etc.); mentor teachers; long-term (permanent) substitute teachers; principals and assistant principals, and charter school teachers -- Everyone who takes the survey must be a district, BOCES, or charter employee and be included in the “school head count”

WHERE?       
Online on the TELL Colorado web site at tellcolorado.org

WHY?            
To help ensure that all students can learn, teachers need to work in schools designed for their  success. Positive teaching conditions – where educators are supported and empowered – are  essential to creating schools where teachers want to work and students can learn. Our TELL Colorado Initiative will empower educators, administrators, and policy makers at all levels  to develop these conditions through the collection and analysis of data focused on educators’ perceptions of their school environment. We will be able to improve student learning, teacher motivation and retention, and the equitable distribution of resources.

HOW?           
CEA Association Representatives will distribute letters to each teacher (one letter per teacher, not addressed to a person, unique access code on each letter, random distribution). In schools where we have no ARs, the principal will distribute the letters.

WHAT  ELSE?    
The survey will likely take 20-25 minutes to complete.  
It will be posted online prior to launch so teachers can preview it.
It has seven sections:

  1. Time
  2. Facilities & Resources
  3. Community Engagement
  4. School Leadership
  5. Professional Development
  6. Student Learning
  7. Teachers in years 1-3 and Mentor Teachers may answer additional questions.
 
  • A school must have a 50% or greater response rate based on its head count to get a report for its school (RESPONSE RATE MATTERS!)
 
  • A Help Desk will be available starting April 13 with a toll free number and email access.
 
  • Teachers can use a live response rate tracker on the web site to see how their schools are doing. Anonymity is guaranteed.
TELL Survey - April 13-May 11, 2009