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Board debates WSBA climate survey; leans toward staff‑only, anonymous rollout and asks superintendent to prepare questions
Summary
Board members weighed costs and timing for a proposed district climate survey, favoring a staff‑only anonymous survey initially and directing the superintendent to compile draft questions for review at the July 15 meeting.
Board members spent an extended portion of the meeting debating whether to contract with the Wyoming School Boards Association (WSBA) to administer a district climate survey or to run a survey internally.
Superintendent Mike Harris outlined WSBA’s pricing: the basic staff survey costs $3,500, adding parents costs $1,500 and students another $1,500 for a maximum package price of $6,500. Several board members urged a staff‑only, anonymous rollout so that employees could provide formal feedback without relying on informal channels.
One member apologized to district administrators for how the last meeting had felt and said her motivation for a survey was to collect formal, actionable feedback rather than informal reports passed around the community. "I want that to be in a systematic way rather than what I hear out and about in town," the member said.
Questions focused on timing and response rates: some members argued that summer deployment would yield low participation and recommended an October rollout tied to professional development days, while others urged moving quickly to get baseline data. The board agreed that Superintendent Harris should collect proposed questions and present a draft at the July 15 meeting for board review and approval.
Board members also discussed exit surveys and using multiple touchpoints across the school year to track changes over time if the district chose to repeat the survey.
No purchase agreement was finalized—board members agreed to review a proposed WSBA instrument or a locally produced alternative before deciding whether to hire WSBA or do the survey in‑house.
