Results

Thank you for participating in the Maine Teaching, Leading and Learning (TeLL) survey. You contributed to a unique and important opportunity to gather information about school climate from those whose perception matters most - practicing educators.More than 5,100 Maine educators (27 percent of all Maine educators from across the state) participated in the TeLL Maine Teaching and Learning Conditions Survey. This includes responses from 4,739 teachers, 43 principals, 14 assistant principals, and 341 other education professionals. Data are now available for 159 schools and 35 districts, thus providing critical information for making local and state-level decisions to improve Maine schools. Data reports are only available at the school level if at least 40 percent of the school faculty responded to the survey. Schools and districts with a sufficient response rate received a password to access their data for their own school improvement planning.

Click here to access school and district results and resources.

Using Maine Teaching, Leading and Learning Data Results

The success of the TeLL Initiative depends on the extent to which school communities can use the resulting data to inform real school improvement processes. Toward that end, the New Teacher Center has created a resources page to help schools and communities engage in ongoing and meaningful conversations about potential strategies to improve teaching and learning conditions.

Partners

The Maine Education Association (MEA) and the Maine Department of Education (DOE) worked with the New Teacher Center at the University of California at Santa Cruz (NTC) to conduct the survey. NTC is a nonpartisan group with a mission to support the development of an effective, dedicated and inspired teaching force. NTC also has vast experience conducting similar surveys across the country, which have been connected to improved student achievement and teacher retention.

"It is MEA's hope that TeLL will clarify the focus of public schools in Maine by determining what resources and supports teachers need to serve all students well," according to MEA President Chris Galgay. "We know that learning conditions in the classroom are critically important to teacher job satisfaction and that improving learning conditions will decrease teacher turnover and increase student achievement."