Teaching, Empowering, Leading and Learning Maryland Survey
“The 2011 TELL Maryland Survey is an opportunity for every Maryland educator to engage in creating the best teaching and learning environments possible for our children,” said Governor O’Malley. “We encourage every school to participate in this statewide, anonymous survey. Only together – with our hardworking teachers and principals, our committed parents, and above all our students – can we build on the progress we’re making for our number-one ranked schools.”

-Governor Martin O’Malley

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Attention, Educators!

Governor O’Malley has announced the release of the results from the 2011 TELL Maryland Survey. Nearly 46,000 participants, representing more than 51% of the state's educators, completed the survey!  Please visit the following links for more information:

Montgomery County Public School Educators: click here to read the news bulletin from MCPS.

MSEA members: please visit this link from MSEA.

Attention Maryland Educators!

Once again, Governor O’Malley wants to hear from every educator in our public schools about your teaching and learning conditions!  The 2011 Teaching, Empowering, Leading and Learning (TELL) Maryland Survey was administered April 27th - June 3rd.

Click below to see the video of Gov. Martin O'Malley on the TELL Maryland survey. Click here to see the video on YouTube.

Governor Martin O'Malley Video

 

What's New for 2011:

  1. ESPs: In addition to the survey for all certificated school based educators, the 2011 TELL Maryland Survey will include a survey for designated Education Support Personnel, which include teaching assistants and clerical support for administrators.
  2. NEW FAQs: In PowerPoint format for ease-of-sharing and viewing.
  3. Pre-Survey Webinars: These interactive sessions will provide opportunities for school and district leaders to hear the details about the 2011 TELL Maryland Survey as well as ask questions and share ideas with the New Teacher Center.
  4. This ANONYMOUS and CONFIDENTIAL survey of all Maryland certificated educators is part of our state’s award winning Race to the Top grant and the valuable data from the survey will continue to be an important tool for schools and districts in their annual improvement strategies.
Governor O'Malley

About the Survey

The 2011 TELL Maryland Survey is an online, confidential survey for school-based certificated educators and designated ESPs, similar to the 2009 TELL Maryland Survey, where over 43,400 educators (62 percent) responded to the voluntary survey. State and district results have been available since May 2009 to all educators and the 1,023 schools in which at least half the faculty responded had password protected access to individual school data.

  • Click here to view 2009 results and reports.
  • Click here to view NTC’s Findings for 2009 TELL Maryland.
  • To view the questions on the 2011 TELL Maryland Survey, click the links in the left sidebar.

As in 2009, school principals will receive a packet of materials the week before the survey begins. The packet contains the letters from the Governor, each letter with an individual, anonymous access code to complete the survey

There will be a toll-free Help Desk available 7:30 AM-4:30 PM Monday through Friday during the survey window. The Help Desk will also be available at any time through Email or by accessing this website. Anyone (principals or teachers) not receiving codes by April 27 should contact the Help Desk once it is available.

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.