The Education Report

The Education Report

An OUSD survey on working conditions

By Katy Murphy
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 at 2:54 pm in OEA, OUSD central office, elementary schools, environment, high schools, initiatives, middle schools, teachers
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Oakland teachers, counselors, principals and other credentialed school-based staff: Friday is the deadline for completing an anonymous online survey about what it’s like to work at each school in the district.

How much time do you spend on various tasks during the school day? Outside of the regular school day? Are efforts made at your school to minimize interruptions, or routine paperwork? How much time do you have to collaborate with other teachers?

The results will be published online, by school, in June — that is, as long as the response rate is at least 50 percent for a given school. If not, those schools will be omitted from the results. Read the rest of this entry »