Measuring your progress on Title IX
- Why don’t your students report incidents?
- Do students understand, or trust, your process?
- What is working?
- Is your district making progress?
Addressing sexual harassment issues requires support from legal, administrative, student services, counseling, and site leadership teams. Additionally, you may have students, parents, or community members as participants in your resolution process.
Coriana6 works with you to identify and measure outcomes reflecting the efficacy of your response to student needs. Having worked with over 22,000 secondary students in 25 middle and high schools, our sexual harassment climate survey was originally written with feedback from Office for Civil Rights (OCR) as the evaluation component for a resolution agreement. As a trusted third party, we provide communities with a guarantee of confidentiality and an impartial analysis of student experiences of sexual and gender-based harassment.
Before the survey, we work with your stakeholders on tuning the instrument, making a plan for student participation, and establishing communications to keep your community updated.
Have a Look
- Private, encrypted cloud server.
- No identifiable information collected on the survey.
- Data collection and cleaning, safeguarding student privacy while having a high completion rate.
- Presentations to your board, principal leadership teams, community committee members … all with a focus on a student-centered, action-oriented response.
The slide deck presented here is an example of a board report using simulated student data in an imaginary school district.
Click this image to see the demonstration report.
Typical Timeline
Not all steps require equal time, but the journey you undertake will follow the same general stages. Please contact us if you would like to discuss this important work in your district.
1.
Identification of Issues and Stakeholders
The initial first step is a collaboration between the administrative leadership team, parents/community members (typically a committee), and student leaders.
2.
Customization of Data Collection Instrument
We want the survey to reflect local programs and terminology that will be familiar to the students. While core questions are usually kept intact, questions can be added to address specific circumstances that you would like to explore.
3.
Data Collection
Data collection is scheduled when it best fits into the district calendar. You’ll make the arrangements for student seating times and have complete flexibility over start and end dates. Most schools schedule this during common or advisory periods — the average student needs 12 minutes to complete the task.
We have also found that, depending on district climate, it may be advantageous that the process is being managed by an external party. No individually identifiable information is collected on student participants, and analysis is conducted by a disinterested, third party.
4.
Reporting
- Reporting typically starts with the Superintendent’s leadership team, this allows the results to reflect local terminology and provides a shared initial experience for the leaders.
- The School Board receives the results at a board meeting and results are released to the public.
- Site-level leaders have a meeting that focuses on immediate on-the-ground issues that can be addressed by a Principal, AP, or counseling staff.
- The community, represented by a Parental Advisory Committee or equivalent, have an opportunity to talk about sexual and gender-based harassment as experienced within the student body.
- Finally, we recommend bringing student leadership into the dialogue — they often provide a unique perspective to the results with suggestions that may accelerate or focus district response.