Posted on October 14, 2020
Categories: digital learning & school reopening, surveys

Between June and August 2020, the Office of Evaluation, Research, and Accountability (ERA) used an online feedback form to gather input about reopening schools for the 2020-21 school year.  The form allowed respondents to provide open-ended comments about each of the different topics covered by SDP’s school reopening plan: Health and Safety, Learning Models, Operations, Timeline, and Workforce Considerations, as well as feedback unrelated to these topics (“other”). This report summarizes our findings from an analysis of the comments submitted from the time the feedback form opened on June 23 until August 14 to identify common words, phrases and themes and determine if there were changes after SDP announced its reopening plan on July 15 and/or after SDP announced its updated reopening plan on July 28 via email to all District staff. We provide an overview of the most common words and phrases in the comments by topic and date range and compare trends over time. Additionally, we summarize themes that emerged from our analysis of a random sample of coded comments.