Results

Thank you for participating in the Alabama Take20 Teaching and Learning Conditions Survey. These 20 minutes of your time placed your experiences and perceptions at the center of school, district and state efforts to improve Alabama education. Almost 30,000 Alabama educators (47 percent of all educators from across the state) participated in the Take20 Alabama Teaching and Learning Conditions Survey. This includes responses from 24,530 teachers, 702 principals, 562 assistant principals, and 2,393 other education professionals. Data is now available for 959 schools and 89 districts. These unique results provide critical information for making local and state level decisions to improve Alabama schools.

Data are released only at the school level if a minimum of 40 percent of the school faculty and at least five educators responded to the survey. School reports are available to educators in the building with a pass code provided previously by district and school leadership.

School Results and resources are now available to schools with sufficient response rate.

Click here for results from the principal-specific questions about school leader support.

Beyond these local data results, an initial analysis of statewide trends is also available.

On the whole, Alabama educators were highly positive about their teaching and learning conditions. While more analyses remain, the initial examination of the survey data suggests that Alabama has a solid foundation of committed educators and comprehensive, sustained efforts to improve teaching and learning conditions will ensure that the state's educators are able to help every child in Alabama learn.

Using the Data

The success of the Take 20 Alabama Teaching and Learning Conditions 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 strategies with the potential to improve teaching and learning conditions.

Partners

A host of stakeholder groups representing teachers, principals, superintendents, school boards, community and business (listed on left side of this page), worked collectively 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.