The Teachers Union is currently surveying their members to determine how things are going at each of our school sites. I have read through the survey and find the questions very good. I think it will be great to get an understanding from the teacher perspective how the schools are doing.

I'd like to take that same effort to the community, but what questions should we ask? Given the financial restrictions that we are under, we really need to prioritize our efforts and spend our time addressing the community's highest concerns. The other issue is how can we conduct the survey and get positives as well as negatives?

So I have created a 4 question survey of my own and people who wish to take it can. I will publish the answers to the survey once I have 100 responses. There are 4 questions. Each of the 4 questions must be answered for the survey to be collected.

Please be honest and provide complete answers. What I'm hoping to find out is what questions should be placed on a larger survey that is sent out to the entire community. I am also curious to find out if we can depend on the community to be open, honest, and constructive. If we can't, then there is really no reason to expend dollars trying to do a district wide survey. If we can do the survey via Survey Monkey, we could do the survey very inexpensively, so if this can work, we might be able to use it.

Click HERE to take the survey. It is anonymous, so for those of you who are unwilling to provide your name, you are safe.

UPDATE 03/27/11:

So far there have been 27 responses. Many of the thoughts and suggestions are really very good. As I said, once I have one hundred responses, I will publish them all. Thanks to all who have participated so far.

UPDATE 04/05/11:

As of today there have been 50 responses. The responses continue to be thoughtful and the suggestions good. Once there are 100 responses I will publish them all. Thanks to all who have participated.