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Goal 2: Progress Updates


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Report 1: November 24, 2025

At our first meeting on September 2, 2025, the committee revisited their norms from last year and agreed to keep them the same. The definitions of Climate and Culture were reviewed. Copies of last year’s parent and student surveys were reviewed as well, with changes to the wording recommended on several questions. The committee felt that some parents may not be able to have an answer to each question, so giving the option of “not enough information” on questions would be wise. The committee
discussed at length how to increase the number of parents that complete the survey. Parents shared that just having a survey link or a QR code may be a barrier for parents that do not have internet access or cell phone minutes. The committee agreed that having paper copies of the surveys available at Parent-Teacher conferences may help with this. Incentives to get people to complete the survey were also discussed, such as allowing an optional name to be submitted at the end of the survey, and that
name being entered into a drawing for prizes.

Attendees also discussed that sharing what is being done currently in all buildings to increase a positive climate and culture needs to be shared. Principals were surveyed and results were shared at the second committee meeting.

Committee members felt that a hashtag campaign of #WhyGreenisMagicforMe could be a great way to allow people to flood social media with their love for Derby and the magic of the Green. This will be shared with the Communications Department as an idea.

At our second committee meeting on October 9, 2025, the new parent and student surveys were shared. QR code flyers for each building were shared. The paper copies of the survey were available for committee members to review if they liked. It was discussed and decided that the surveys are open and ready to be shared out. Principals received all of the necessary links, paper copies and QR flyers on October 2, 2025. Also at this meeting, the discipline data from the first nine weeks of the 2025-2026
school year was shared. Data was shared only from the district level, and any categories with less than 10 reported incidents were NOT reported. (For example, each type of bullying had only one reported incident in the first nine weeks of school. If this data had been shared, it could lead to a student being identified, so to protect student privacy, we do not report out data of less than 10 incidents.) Committee members were able to ask questions about the data, but overall, the feeling was very positive as the
major behavior category numbers were fairly low.

Additionally, principals had completed a short survey for the committee that listed all of the activities done at each building that are directly related to making positive culture and climate change. The seven page document was shared with the committee. Staff were encouraged to share this document with their own buildings as a way to generate ideas that could be implemented in their own buildings.

At the November 17, 2025 committee meeting, we reviewed the results of the parent and student surveys.

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