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BLPS Youth Truth Survey On Now

BEND, OR -- Bend-LaPine Schools is asking students and families to rate their school in a variety of areas. The Youth Truth online questionnaire is meant to help the district better understand the student experience, according to Improvement Director Dave Van Loo, “We’ve got a lot of data around test scores, grades…a lot of performance data. But we have less perception data so this really gives us a more complete picture of what’s going on.” Van Loo outlined the survey topics, “Questions have to do with student engagement, academic challenge, school culture, sense of belonging and peer collaboration, relationships with teachers, college career readiness, diversity and inclusion, things like that.”

Van Loo notes it is important to recognize this is an assessment of school performance rather than of the students, “Then schools will dig into that, and base their school improvement plans for how they run their schools around that. And then at the district level we report these data out to the school board, as well. These provide some of the key performance indicators that we use to measure how our schools are doing in general.”

The anonymous online survey is available through this month.

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