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Deerfield Parents: Take the 5Essentials Survey

This is a reminder to participate in the Illinois 5Essentials Survey: Organizing Schools for Improvement parent survey. The deadline is March 31.

By now, Deerfield Public Schools District 109 parents should have received an invitation from the District to participate in the 5Essentails survey; the results from this survey will help drive school improvement in your child’s school.

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Parents should take the survey for each school where a child attends, according to District 109 Communications Director Cathy Kedjidjian. “If they have children at Walden, Shepard and DHS, they will take the survey three times,” She said.

District school officials guarantee that survey responses will never be connected to you or your child. School reports will only present summary information of how parents responded as a whole.

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School-level reports will be generated if at least 30 percent of parents respond to the survey. They will be sent to schools and districts in the June and will be included in each school report card released by ISBE at the end of October.

5Essentials Reports for your school will also then be publicly available via the UChicago Impact website. 5Essentials Reports will display summary information, such as the percent of parents agreeing that they feel comfortable raising concerns to their child’s teacher. Parent and student identities will be kept completely confidential and responses will not be linked to any individual.

The survey takes approximately three to five minutes to complete; and your participation in the Illinois 5Essentials Survey will help to understand your child’s school and guide improvement.

Please visit https://survey.5-essentials.org/Illinois/survey/parent/login/ to participate in the Illinois 5Essentials Survey.

If you have any questions about the survey, please contact 5Essentials Customer Support at 1-866-440-1874 or 5essentials@uchicago.edu.

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