During the later part of the 2024 fall semester, officials with Trigg County Public Schools opted into a contract with Studer Education — a multi-platform plan that provides coaching, training and certification standards to organizations, with hopes of improving leadership practices while creating high-impact learning environments.
In Thursday’s regularly-scheduled Board of Education meeting, Superintendent Rex Booth revealed a few notes from a recently-returned campus-wide survey administered through Studer — one that fully assessed common goals and beliefs throughout the district.
The goal, he said, is recruitment and retention.
More than 280 employees returned their answers to conceptual queries, ranking on a scale of 1 through 5 — going respectively from “strongly disagree” to “strongly agree.”
On average, Booth said the overall mean was 4.12, and more than 78% employees either “strongly agreed” or “agreed” with all of the questions, which proved a point of unity and group belief.
The top five positive questions for the district:
+ A 4.47 for “I believe my work positively impacts those we serve.”
+ A 4.39 for “I have a clear understanding of my expectations as an employee.”
+ A 4.32 for “I have a sense of pride when I tell people where I work.”
+ A 4.25 for “I would recommend that parents select my organization to serve their child.”
+ And a 4.25 for “I have a clear understanding of the mission and goals of my organization.”
The bottom five questions for the district, which can be viewed as points of improvement or needed clarity:
+ A 3.99 for “I have the opportunity to provide input on decisions that affect my job.”
+ A 3.98 for “The organizational culture supports open and honest communication.”
+ A 3.94 for “I get appropriate recognition when I do good work.”
+ A 3.92 for “All organizational level information is communicated in a timely manner across the organization.”
+ And a 3.90 for “All organization-level resources are allocated to maximize effectiveness across the organization.”
Eventually, parents and students are going to receive similar surveys, and be asked to return them back to the district for full assessment and evaluation.
Several board members noted that a rather different survey was disseminated through the district a couple of years back, yielding somewhat different results.
Booth said “there’s room to grow.”
Also, prior to Thursday’s regularly-scheduled board meeting, officials held an open workshop with no action taken regarding discussions around the district’s payroll. A new budget cycle is quickly approaching.
