How to conduct an
Issues Survey
Your unit can take a Legislative Issues survey in any of
four ways:
Sept.19th
2007:
1) A kidmail survey of your
whole school community
2) A general membership meeting
survey
3) A board meeting survey, or
...
4) An Open House
A
kidmail survey is the most thorough, approaching your entire school community,
and accomplishing three goals:
·
To get guidance from our members for our Legislative Assembly votes,
Oct. 5th‑6th.
·
To let our members and school communities know what PTA is doing in
state-wide advocacy, and most importantly...
·
To identify PTA members interested in these issues, so we can find each
other and work together on them
An elementary schools kidmail survey is simple:
1. Confirm with your
Principal or Superintendent that you have permission to conduct an Issues
Survey. (Superintendent Linda Cowan has approved this year's survey
for
2. Download this
year's survey. http://r9leg.home.comcast.net/IssuesSurvey07.doc
Customize it for your school, if needed.
3. Copy the Issues Survey, one for each of your
school's students and teachers.
You can usually get a copy of teachers and the number of
each teacher's students from the front desk.
Save time by using the copier's "number of copies" counter to count
out one survey for each kid, plus one for their teacher.
4.
Put 'em in your teachers' boxes for kidmail distribution.
5.
Collect the returned
surveys. Use the http://r9leg.home.comcast.net/IssuesSurveyTallyTool07..xls Tally Tool
to total them.
6.
Email the results (along with the list of respondents possibly
interested in working with us on our priorities), to your Council
Legislative Chair. http://r9leg.home.comcast.net/R9LegChairs.htm
A general membership, board, or Open House survey is even
simpler:
1) Confirm with your
Principal or Superintendent that you have permission to conduct an Issues
Survey.
2) Download this
year's survey. http://r9leg.home.comcast.net/IssuesSurvey07.doc
3) Customize it for
your school, if needed.
1) Pass out copies
of the attached Issues Survey to members present at your meeting,
2) Collect, Tally,
and return results to your Council Leg Chair.
It's easy.
We'll report back to you survey results from our Council,
Region 9, and Legislative Assembly.
You give your members and other parents and teachers a real
voice in setting WSPTA policy priorities. You let them know what
we're working on for state policy priorities. You give those
interested in working with us on our priorities an opportunity to get their
hands dirty.
There are many non-PTA parents and community members who
want to be heard on these issues, and may want to work with us on our
state-wide priorities. What better way to bring parents
interested in advocating with us on our policy priorities, into the PTA fold!