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Steamboat Springs presents staff‑survey results and a yearlong professional‑development plan
Summary
Dr. Tim Ritter presented Spring 2025 staff‑survey results, noting modest multi‑year score shifts and areas of concern (workload, recognition). The district outlined a PD framework anchored in 'excellence driven by growth,' a move from EAB to Panorama surveys, and required training (including AI ethics and restorative practices).
Dr. Tim Ritter presented end‑of‑year staff‑survey findings to the Steamboat Springs School Board on Aug. 11, saying the district has seen modest multi‑year movement in its overall scores and flagged continuing concerns about workload and professional‑growth opportunities. "Our overall district score was 3.82," Ritter said, then noted growth in later measurements and a slight regression in spring 2025 that staff later examined.
Ritter emphasized that the district will shift from EAB to Panorama for staff surveying to gain broader comparative data and richer qualitative follow‑up. He summarized three core PD priorities — high‑impact instruction, professional learning communities and curricular‑adoption PD — under a district slogan he described as "anchored in excellence driven by growth." The district plans recurring virtual and in‑person sessions, required sessions with an outside trainer (Dr. Cash) and targeted offerings such as restorative practices training, CPI/CPR logistics and generative‑AI/ethics sessions for staff.
Board members pressed for clarity on drivers of the spring regression and on how the district will translate PD into classroom change. Cresta asked whether the survey could give respondents an opportunity to explain answers in free text; Ritter and Celine (district staff) said the district will do school‑level follow‑up and that Panorama’s instruments produce more specific question options and qualitative data. Laura Craig raised workload and student behavior as likely contributors and asked whether restorative practices and discipline‑policy updates would be deployed across the district; staff said they are aligning discipline policy and restorative work for K‑12 consistency.
Ritter said the district will place numerical details (for example, minute/hour counts) in an administrative policy so the board can remain aligned with state law while allowing quicker adjustments by administration if state requirements change. He closed by noting the PD calendar and next steps: finalize Panorama rollout, continue principal training on student perspective measures and monitor staff‑reported metrics over the year.
What’s next: staff will implement the Panorama surveys, proceed with the PD calendar and return to the board with school‑level follow‑up data and proposed administrative policy language if state minimums change.
