The Voice of Teachers: Working and Learning Conditions

News reports in Colorado last week were full of teachers in front of our state capital dressed in red and raising their collective voice for more school funding. Last Friday (4/27/2018), the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) released the results of the Teaching and Learning Conditions in Colorado (TLCC) survey which adds data to the concerns that teachers are raising. CDE reported that over half of the 68,000 educators in the state filled out the anonymous survey. This is the first year for the TLCC survey which replaced the TELL survey.

As our mission is to see thriving schools in the Edgewater area and we hope to see all kids in the 80214 area succeed from cradle to career, this survey provides an important look into teacher working conditions and their view of the learning conditions for students. Teachers are a great source of on the ground intelligence of what is happening in our schools.

We wanted to spotlight one of our elementary schools and the high marks they received on two of the most important questions on the survey. Given that this school is a Title I school and has a high percentage of students who face the roadblocks of poverty, these results show progress toward becoming a thriving school.