The Governor recently met with key education stakeholders to discuss the upcoming 2013 survey. At the TELL Maryland Summit, local leaders shared the outstanding examples of how the 2011 TELL data is being used across the state:

• Allegany County Public Schools
• Baltimore City Schools
• Charles County Public Schools
• Frederick County Public Schools
• Montgomery County Public Schools

MSDE also briefed the group on the Department’s use of the TELL findings as part of the Race to the Top work with new teacher support in every school district. And the New Teacher Center presented a summary of their reports just released, which included findings showing connections to student achievement, teacher retention, new teacher support, administrators, and ESPs. You may now download these documents by clicking on the “research” tab to the left.

About the Survey

The 2013 TELL Maryland Survey is an online, confidential survey for school-based certificated educators. Using the 2011 TELL Survey instrument, where nearly 46,000 people participated, representing more than 51% of the state's educators, Maryland will again offer a statewide, anonymous, online survey to every educator.

Improving Teaching and Learning for All Students

TELL us about your school. Governor Martin O’Malley wants to ensure that all Maryland educators have the supportive environment necessary to help students achieve at the highest levels. The TELL Maryland Survey is a perceptual survey that will allow every educator to TELL Maryland if they have positive teaching and learning conditions that research has shown to be important to student achievement and teacher retention.

This survey was initiated by Governor O’Malley, in 2009 and supported by the Maryland Association of Boards of Education, the Maryland Association of Elementary School Principals, the Maryland Association of Secondary School Principals, the Ma ryland State Board of Education, Maryland State Department of Education, Maryland State Education Association, the Public School Superintendents Association of Maryland, and the American Federation of Teachers Maryland.

The TELL Maryland Survey anonymously captures the perceptions of all school-based certificated educators and designated ESPs about these conditions. By documenting and analyzing how educators view critical teaching and learning conditions, this initiative focuses on providing each Maryland school with its own data that can become a part of the on-going improvement planning processes in our buildings, in our counties, and at the state level.

TELL Maryland Survey partners believe the results will help place educators’ experiences and perceptions at the center of school, district, and state efforts to improve Maryland education.

A host of stakeholder groups representing teachers, superintendents, community and business (listed on left side of this page), are collectively working with the New Teacher Center (NTC) to conduct the survey. NTC is a nonpartisan group with a mission to support the development of an effective, dedicated and inspired teaching force. NTC also has vast experience conducting similar surveys across the country.