Welcome to the Ohio Teaching & Learning Conditions Survey!

The business sector has long recognized and responded to the linkage between employee learning conditions and productivity. Yet, while business industries have designed and invested in innovative tools and measures to focus on employee satisfaction, many schools struggle to address critical learning conditions. Ohio school systems and the policymakers that govern them are now attempting to measure, recognize and respond to the direct impact these conditions have on teacher attrition and student achievement.

The Ohio Teacher & Learning Conditions Survey is about hearing from those who know best about what is happening in schools – educators themselves. The survey provides all educators with the opportunity to privately and anonymously provide input on critical issues such as time, facilities and resources, empowerment, leadership and professional development – all of which have been shown to have an impact on whether teachers stay in schools and most importantly, on whether students learn.

Every participating Ohio school and district with a sufficient response rate (40 percent or more) receives a unique data report, representing the collective perception of educators regarding teaching and learning conditions. Ohio Teaching and Learning Conditions partners have collected and are now providing this data in hopes to guide school improvement planning, faculty conversation, community engagement and consideration of district and state policies and programs.

The 40 percent response rate threshold helps ensure the results are representative of the population of educators in your school. The minimum response rate also protects the anonymity of respondents.

For those schools and districts that have reached the 40 percent response rate, your data is accessible from this site with a password. Every participating school in the state has been assigned a point of contact for helping coordinate this initiative. The point of contact for your school will ensure that every interested party working directly in and with your school has access to the password for viewing your unique school data. Click here to find the contact information for the individual responsible for coordinating data release at your school. (http://www.ohiotlc.org/reports/district_contacts.php)

Ohio Teaching & Learning Conditions partners have also created resources to help your school community review and respond to data regarding conditions for teaching and learning in your school. For example, the Center for Teaching Quality has developed the Teacher Working Conditions Toolkit (www.teacherworkingconditions.org) to help communities and schools better understand and respond to data from the survey.

Technical assistance opportunities will also be available for all participating schools to learn more about sustainable reform strategies to improve conditions for teaching and learning. In the coming months, please visit this site to learn more about these opportunities.