Do your kid’s teachers like where they work? See 2022 survey results for NC schools.
North Carolina parents can now find out how happy or not teachers are at their child’s public school.
The 2022 results of the North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey were released on Wednesday. More than 112,000 teachers, principals, assistant principals and other school-based educators answered a wide-ranging series of questions on areas such as time, school conduct and safety, school leadership and support and this year questions about the pandemic.
The survey had a record 91.96% response rate.
“Teachers definitely wanted to get their voice heard,” said Alessandro Montanari, assistant director of district and regional support at the state Department of Public Instruction.
The public can look up the results at a statewide, school district and individual school level at www.nctwcs.org. Most schools had enough educators respond to report individual school totals.
The survey is conducted every two years.
Listening to teachers
The results are used by school leaders. It’s not uncommon for principals to be replaced at schools where teachers report poor working conditions.
State Superintendent Catherine Truitt said that it’s up to schools and districts to show teachers that their voices are being heard in the survey results.
“The onus is on district leadership to say these are our data and our data might look different from another district’s data so now we’re going to address this,” Truitt told the State Board of Education. “It is truly on district leadership and site-level leadership to do something with this data.”
This story was originally published June 1, 2022 at 2:42 PM.
