RISE Community,
At Da Vinci RISE, we all believe that students are more than just their math and reading test scores. For that reason, RISE students will share their voice with us by participating in The Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Survey, which is part of the XQ Super Schools Student Performance Framework (SPF). Students will take this survey within their classes this week (9/20-9/24). This framework was born from the desire for a more authentic, holistic, and student-centered approach to understanding your growth and learning. We want you to have a tool that captures all of the parts of your experience and development during your time in high school.
This online survey will provide students, their teachers, staff, stakeholders, and researchers at MDRC with information on how students learn, think, and feel about school and the world around them. All students will fill out three surveys during the 2021-22 school year. The information they provide in these surveys will help the RISE staff understand more about our student’s learning and development than traditional academic assessments could do alone. The information will also help our partners at MDRC understand how students in different schools across the United States are learning and growing. We estimate that it will take approximately 10 minutes to answer the survey.
Student responses will be kept confidential and never reported at an individual level. MDRC will have access to anonymized information, meaning they will receive responses from students with an ID number, but they will never know who they really are. No one else will have access to the information provided by those participating in this survey, and when we report findings back to the schools, we will never discuss any individual student, nor will we report any small subgroup to ensure confidentiality.
If you have any questions or concerns about the survey, please feel to reach out to us directly!
Erin Whalen, Principal and Executive Director
Ewhalen@davincischools.org
