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1/ Every spring, we administer the SDP District-Wide Survey to students, teachers, parents, guardians, and principals. The surveys measure five key topics: Climate, Instruction, Professional Capacity, Leadership, and Parent & Guardian Community Ties.

2/ This year, we're looking at how different respondent groups answered similar questions to identify areas of agreement--and disagreement--between students, families, and educators.

3/ Today, we're sharing our first installment in the Comparing Perspectives series. We used responses from students, teachers, parents, and principals to answer three questions about respect:

4/ Do students treat each other with respect? Do adults treat students with respect? Do adults feel respected by students?

5/ Here's what we found when we compared responses from students, teachers, and principals to DWS questions about respect:

6/ We'll be posting new Comparing Perspectives installments every week. Next week we'll compare how teachers and students view the difficulty of classroom instruction.

7/7 You can also make your own comparisons: School-level results for each question by respondent group are available at philasd.org/dwsresults.

Parents & guardians, students, teachers, principals, and full-time school-based support staff: the District-Wide Survey is now open. Click here to take the survey or to find out more: philasd.org/dws

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