School Autonomy Focus Groups

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Hello,

This online data collection form is to gather information from the LAUSD listening campaign. This form is to be filled out after you have run a focus group.

The responses in this form will be strictly confidential and data from this research will be reported only in the aggregate. If you have questions at any time about the survey or the procedures, you may contact Allison Carter at [email protected].

Please note that the online form will time out after 60 minutes of inactivity. To avoid this, please do not leave the form open without actively adding information to the form. Thank you very much for your time and support.

Please indicate what type of data you are entering:

First Focus Group

Additional Focus Group (optional)

Ad Hoc (optional)

Which type of focus group did you facilitate?

Directors who have monitored and/or supported autonomous schools.

Affiliated Charters

PSC 1.0 or 2.0 schools who chose no autonomies

PSC 1.0 or 2.0 schools who chose autonomies

ESBMM school

Your Notes from the School Autonomy Focus Group:

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Question 8 (You may have not had a question 8 on your protocol. If you did not, just enter 'none' in the box below.)

Question 9 (You may have not had a question 9 on your protocol. If you did not, just enter 'none' in the box below.)

Question 10 (You may have not had a question 10 on your protocol. If you did not, just enter 'none' in the box below.)

Your Final Thoughts about your School Autonomy Focus Group Experience:

Observations - things you heard from participants, read (such as on feedback forms, comments, or other sources outside the focus group), or saw in the way people responded. For example, an observation might be that teachers, parents, and external partners did not know what Budgeting for Student Achievement was and how it might impact them; only principals and directors knew that district-wide implementation of Budgeting for Student Achievement has been delayed by the state’s fiscal situation.

Stories - specific quotes or snippets that illustrate someone’s authentic experience in the district. A story then might be that one participant noted that LAUSD couldn’t do it under LAMP and LEARN, saying, “I would really like to see this happen, but my more inexperienced colleagues are afraid it will be too much work and they are just overwhelmed.”

Themes - something for which you have multiple observations. They aggregate the observations and stories and demonstrate where there is commonality. Themes might be that directors and principals say their colleagues’ responses ranged from relief to disappointment to skepticism about the district’s capacity to implement this reform.

Opportunities for action - start with a “what if” — “What if we put out a clear timeline for implementation and set dates by which each category of school needed to phase in?”