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District staff report broad gains in Impact Kentucky staff survey; emotional well-being lags
Summary
Doctor Bradford told the Fayette County board that 84.5% of certified staff responded to the 2026 Impact Kentucky survey and the district saw favorability gains across most domains; the presentation flagged feedback and coaching and emotional well-being as priority areas for improvement.
Doctor Bradford presented the 2026 Impact Kentucky working-conditions survey to the Fayette County Board of Education on March 9, saying the district recorded increased staff response rates and broad favorable movement across domains.
Bradford said certified staff response rose from 80.8% in 2024 to 84.5% in 2026 — "a 3.7% increase in the total responses of certified staff across the system" — and that 69 of 72 survey items showed improved percent favorability (he summarized that as 96% of questions improving). He framed the survey as aligned to the district’s strategic priorities and an input for the district’s comprehensive improvement work.
On specific domains Bradford highlighted strengths: "Educating all students" at about 79% favorable, "staff leadership relationships" also at 79%, and "school leadership" at 70% favorable. He identified three priority areas: feedback and coaching (58% favorable), professional learning (61%), and emotional well-being and belonging (51%). Bradford credited district investments — including a Department of Employee Wellness and expanded professional learning days — with contributing to measured gains and described plans to convert quantitative survey findings into qualitative feedback and school-level actions.
Board members asked about disaggregation by school level and subgroup; Bradford said the district did not have those level-by-level breakdowns to present that evening but noted the full data and dashboards are publicly available at impactkentucky.org and can be disaggregated by level, subgroup and years of experience upon request.
Bradford and board members discussed how the survey results link to the district’s comprehensive district improvement plan and state summative assessment results as part of an overall accountability picture. The presentation did not include new spending decisions; instead, staff described existing professional learning networks, task forces, and planned data reviews to convert survey results into local action steps.
What’s next: District staff will continue school- and district-level data reviews and return any requested disaggregations and planned action steps to the board in follow-up reports.
