Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. What is “TELL Indiana” ? The TELL Indiana (Teaching, Empowering, Leading, and Learning) survey is a unique opportunity for all educators in schools participating in the Indiana Teacher Incentive Fund initiative to provide valuable input on key education issues such as school and teacher leadership, professional development, and more. This endeavor is funded by the Teacher Incentive Fund as part of the principal evaluation requirements of the grant.

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. How is the 2015 TELL Indiana Survey connected to the Teacher Incentive Fund? In 2010, Indiana was awarded a federal Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) grant to implement teacher and principal performance-based compensation system in 44 Indiana schools. The TELL Indiana survey is provided by the TIF grant and is used to meet the grant requirements. The TIF grant also funds the TAP System in all participating schools.

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. Wasn’t there a TELL Indiana Survey a while back? Yes! This is the fourth annual administration of the survey.

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. As in 2012, 2013, and 2014 the Indiana Department of Education has contracted with the New Teacher Center (NTC) to administer the state’s survey. NTC is a national organization dedicated to supporting the development of a high-quality teaching force. NTC has conducted similar surveys in other states and provides induction and professional development for teachers and principals across the country. Learn more at: Who is administering this survey?

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. What has happened as a result of the TELL Indiana Surveys? Data was used to determine 30 percent of principal and assistant principal performance awards. Tools were developed and posted at the website for school and teacher leaders to utilize for school improvement planning. Presentations, webinars and brief training were provided to school leaders at the 2012 Indiana TAP Summer Institute and webinars in the summer of 2013 to facilitate data use. TIF-participating schools across the state analyzed the survey results to make school improvement decisions.

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. Schools Used Data Results for School Improvement Planning

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. Can you tell me about the basics of the survey?  TELL Indiana is an anonymous, online survey of every licensed school-based educator in the participating schools.  The survey will be live from April 13 - May 15,  Educators can access the survey via any Internet location, using an individual, anonymous access code.  Anyone can view the response rate at any school during the survey window to make sure every school reaches the minimum response rate needed for data (50%).  Results will be available for schools reaching the 50% minimum response rate and minimum of 5 educators.

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. How can I take the survey? Once you receive your anonymous access code, visit hours/day Use any Internet location View the survey questions Read about the research Take the survey!

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. The principal in each school will receive a packet of letters the week of April 6 th.. There will be a Letter of Instruction included. The principal is asked to: Set up a faculty meeting to distribute the survey access codes and share information about the TELL Indiana Survey. Disseminate the letters randomly. Teachers can switch their letters once received with other licensed educators based in their same school. Meet personally with anyone not in attendance to explain the process. How will teachers and administrators receive their anonymous access codes?

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. There will be a bright fluorescent sticker on the envelope for each school.

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. Instruction Letter

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. Educator Letter Your individual, anonymous access code!

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. There will be a toll-free Help Desk ext. 17 available 7:30 AM-4:30 PM in your time zone Monday through Friday during the survey window. Help Desk can also be accessed at any time through or by accessing the website Anyone (principals or teachers) not receiving codes should contact the Help Desk at ext. 17 during the survey window. Who can I call if I need help, lose my access code or didn’t receive an access code? ? ??????????? ?????????? The Help Desk!

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. What should we do if the website has the incorrect number of people for my school? ? ??????????? ?????????? The Help Desk! All requests for headcount changes must be submitted via webform by the administrator. Complete the headcount change form located on the help page. It may take as long as 48 hours for the change to be reflected on the website.

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. At you can click on any school and view a response rate tracker in real time. How do we know when a school reaches the minimum 50% response rate needed for school- level data?

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. All licensed school-based educators (teachers, administrators, media coordinators, counselors, etc.) in the state. Itinerant teachers should complete a survey for their home-based school but may also complete a survey for any other school in which they work. Licensed school-based part-time teachers can participate. Who can participate in the survey?

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. No. They will use the same website ( to access the survey using one of the anonymous access codes on the letter. At the very beginning of the survey the participant will be asked to select his/her school position. Do administrators take the same survey as teachers? When the principal selects “Administrator” he/she will then receive many of the same questions as teachers, but will receive an additional bank of questions that have been specifically designed for administrators.

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. Do administrators receive separate codes? No. There are no distinct access codes for administrators or teachers. All anonymous access codes will be in the packet of letters sent to the principal.

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. How are the administrator results reported? To ensure anonymity of all respondents, all responses for administrators are reported as an aggregate.

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. No. Only school-based licensed educators. Are central office licensed personnel included?

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. Can you ensure that this is anonymous? The survey is about the school environment - not about any one person or individual. There are NO questions asked that refer to an individual educator or administrator rather, questions refer to “leadership” at the school. There are no questions on the survey that specifically ask about subject areas or grade levels. When the letters with the unique, anonymous access codes are distributed, educators are encouraged to switch letters, thereby demonstrating the codes are anonymous.

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. Can you ensure that this is anonymous? (cont.)  When the school reports are released (for all schools that reach at least a 50% response rate and with a minimum 5 teachers) there is nothing to indicate any type of teacher or any one administrator in a school or district.  While there are some demographic questions on the survey, the answers to these questions are only reported as an aggregate, and not at the district or school level.  There is no way that any connection can be made that a teacher or principal at a certain school gave a certain response.

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. TELL Indiana survey takes approximately minutes to complete. You must complete it in one session and be sure to click “submit” when you are finished and wait to receive a notice you have successfully submitted the survey. How long does it take to complete the survey?

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. How will I know my responses were submitted successfully?

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. When will the results be ready? How can they be viewed? As in previous administrations, all data will be available on the in the summer once analyses to support principal evaluation are conducted. Results show answers to every question by school* and district. Results can be downloaded in Excel format and comparisons to 2014 will be available. *Only for schools reaching the minimum threshold for response.

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. What are access codes and are they really random? They are randomized codes that provide confidentiality for the educators, created by the New Teacher Center and associated to school buildings so that schools can use the results from their own teachers. They are not linked to an individual. It is impossible to trace to an individual before, during, or after the survey is completed. It does not matter which educator uses a particular code within a school building. Each code can only be used once.

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. How will the results be used? Gathering the data from those who work with children everyday in our schools- the teachers- helps to capture valuable information, which research as shown is important in improving student achievement and teacher retention efforts. The results should be used, along with other data artifacts, in school improvement plans. Results are also used to determine principal and assistant principal performance awards (count toward 30% of the principal and TAP performance award.)

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. Performance Award Calculation for Principals and Assistant Principals 1.Single weighted average from survey factor average is created 25% School Leadership 15% each Teacher Leadership, Professional Development, Instructional Practices/Supports 10% each Managing Student Conduct and Community Engagement/Support 5% each Time and Facilities/Resources The weighted average could range between 1.00 and 4.00

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. Performance Award Calculation for Principals and Assistant Principals 2.Standard deviation from the mean of the weighted average from 35 selected comparison schools where the survey was identically administered Schools matched on level, urbanicity, poverty, size Schools drawn from almost 7,500 schools across multiple states and districts Data on urbanicity and poverty from federal NCES data The deviation could range between and 4.00, but it will be capped if the deviation was greater or less than -.50 or.50) for a total ranging from -.50 to.50

Copyright © 2011 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved.Copyright © 2013 New Teacher Center. All Rights Reserved. Performance Award Calculation for Principals and Assistant Principals 3. The average of 2012, 2013, and 2014 weighted composite measures will be subtracted from the 2015 measure to attain an amount of growth. While the difference could range between and 3.00, it will be capped at +.50 to The three scores will be added to create a single “score” that could range from 0.00 to survey results comprise 80% of the score, growth in conditions 10% and comparisons to like schools 10%