Vermont educators and support professionals, thank you for your participation in the Vermont Teaching and Learning Conditions Initiative survey and for helping to create great public schools for every child! See the statewide results for licensed educators and ESPs and download the executive summary and the final report.

The Vermont-NEA wants to ensure that all Vermont educators and support professionals have the working conditions necessary to help students achieve at the highest levels. Research has shown the connection between school conditions and student learning. Tell us about your school – what works and what you need.

Martha Allen Vermont-NEA President

"Vermont’s teachers, education support staff, and principals stand on the brink of an unprecedented event in our state to collect previously unavailable perceptual data that can help local educators improve workplace conditions in their own local schools and school districts. Educators need and deserve fundamental workplace conditions that permit all of us to be the most effective educators we can be. This survey will allow us to dramatically redefine and update the concept of teaching and learning conditions for the 21st century and provide us with data to inform our own professional advocacy efforts to enhance student achievement and educator professionalism in public schools across the Green Mountain State." - Angelo Dorta, Former Vermont-NEA President

For the first time, you will be asked about what it’s like to work in your school in an effort to make teaching and learning conditions better for you and better for your students. The survey will capture anonymously the voices of all school-based licensed educators and education support professionals about these condition so that each school has its own data that can become a part of the on-going improvement planning processes in our buildings, in our districts, and at the state level.

Completing the Survey

Vermont Teaching and Learning Conditions Survey was online between March 30 and April 27, 2009, and all responses will be anonymous and confidential. School staff will receive a personal security code which enables them to go online and provide their perceptions on the critical issues of time, empowerment, leadership, facilities and resources, student conduct, community engagement, professional development, and mentoring/induction programs. Codes for licensed personnel begin with the letter “L” and for support professionals with the letter “E”. This code only identifies which school you work in and ensures the survey is taken once – it is not assigned to you as an individual and cannot be used to identify you and your answers by anyone.

The confidential survey can be completed in about 20 minutes and can be completed from anywhere with Internet access. Results will be available to schools and districts with a sufficient number of respondents in May 2009 to use in identifying strengths and recognizing areas for improvement. The Vermont-NEA hopes the information will help place educators’ experiences and perceptions at the center of school, district, and state efforts to improve education.  

The Vermont-NEA is working with the New Teacher Center (NTC) to conduct the survey.  NTC is a nonpartisan group with a mission to support the development of an effective, dedicated and inspired teaching force. NTC has vast experience conducting similar surveys across the country.