Blog Post
The State of Teacher Wellbeing in the USA
Nicola Jones-Ford
The issues with school staff retention
Satchel Pulse allows school and community stakeholders to better understand in addition to reducing workloads.
Disparate thinking
There is often a disconnect between teachers and their leaders when it comes to why teachers leave the profession. Teachers and administrators do not seem to be on the same page when it comes to understanding the reasons why a teacher may leave a building.
Administrative burdens
Building staff members often report administrative tasks such as paperwork and meetings as a primary barrier to their work. Increased workloads can make it difficult to prioritize the real work of supporting student growth and achievement.
Burnout
Burnout happens for many reasons including feeling undervalued and overworked. Teachers and leaders may experience burnout when they continuously feel unheard, misunderstood, and are expected to comply with a number of tedious, time-consuming tasks.
Addressing challenges with school staff retention
Satchel Pulse allows for opportunities to strengthen relationships through feedback and action.
Continuous feedback cycles
Analyzing survey and assessment data is a simple process with our solution. Our automated survey and assessment techniques provide snapshots of relevant, real-time data so that all stakeholders can share and understand multiple perspectives while working toward common goals.
Comprehensive solution
Satchel Pulse includes holistic approaches to understanding climate, culture, and social-emotional learning. This streamlines many of the burdensome processes that exist across districts and schools allowing for more time to focus on taking action to support community growth.
Prioritize mental health
Ensure safe and inclusive environments with Satchel Pulse. Get a clear view on community experience and needs through strengths-based approaches to assessment. Explore further and take action to support the unique needs of all certified and classified staff.
Satchel Pulse supports school staff retention efforts
Satchel Pulse supports school staff retention through a streamlined platform that gathers, organizes, and analyzes data so that leaders can focus on taking the necessary steps to support their certified and classified staff.
Create a space for continuous feedback
- Automated surveying and assessment processes creates opportunities for continuous feedback. Results are made available and reported instantly through the use of multiple reporting tools. As data enters the system, trend reporting becomes available for analysis.
- Explore these results to better understand shifts in experiences over time. Use this approach to data collection and analysis to ensure that teachers and school staff share their experiences multiple times throughout the school year.
Help all teachers and school staff feel heard and appreciated
- Satchel Pulse gathers timely data on the experiences of both certified and classified staff. Feedback surveys and assessments provide an opportunity for all teachers and school staff to share their thoughts and needs.
- In addition to quick data turn-around, our solution provides districts and schools with actionable steps for addressing areas of need.
Meet school staff where they are currently at
- Our survey and assessments focus on meeting both certified and classified staff with where they are at. The surveys and assessments allow school staff to share their most current feelings around topics connected to climate, culture, equity, and social-emotional skills. This data provides districts and buildings with the most relevant data for action-planning.
Reduce workload
- Our comprehensive solution provides a single-point process for collecting, analyzing, and acting on data. These processes tend to be laborious and include a variety of barriers that can make action difficult. However, Satchel Pulse is easy-to-use and takes off the administrative burdens so that buildings can focus on supporting teachers and school staff.
School staff retention resources
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Shawna Jensen
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Navina Cheema
Partnerships
SEL Providers Association
Satchel Pulse is proud to be founding member of the SEL Providers Association.
The Ed Tech Joint Powers Authority (Ed Tech JPA)
Satchel Pulse is an approved partner of Ed Tech JPA, serving districts nationwide.
Missouri Association of School Administrators (MASA)
Satchel Pulse is proud to support the Missouri Association of Rural Educators through our Associate Membership.
Missouri Association of Rural Education (MARE)
Satchel Pulse supports the Missouri Association of Rural Educators through our Associate Membership.
Learn more about staff retention
We'll give you a demo of Satchel Pulse and show you what our surveys look like, the data they produce, and visual dashboards that display the results. You'll see how Satchel Pulse can automate the process for you and provide real-time data to help support staff retention efforts.
Success story
Dawson County School District
Find out how Satchel Pulse supported and engaged staff in this district.
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You are in good company
Riverside Community School District
SuperintendentWe are utilizing the Satchel Pulse data to develop an entire Culture/Climate plan to address teacher/staff morale in the district. All of the committee's work is based upon data we gathered with Satchel Pulse. It is such a great data source because we have trend data over the last few years of use. We would not be able to identify issues without this data. It has been a valuable tool and I would highly recommend the tool to another school district.
North Pike SD
SEL DirectorThe integration of the Satchel Pulse Screener has been a smooth process. I would definitely recommend the program to a neighboring district that was beginning the initial process of implementing screeners.
Hickman Mills
Associate SuperintendentI would base that on my years of experience using Satchel Pulse as a vendor, the ease of use that the software platform offers to the users of their products, and the exceptional customer service that I have repeatedly received over the years. The results platform that is used in our Climate and Culture software allows for easy interpretation and action development based on the results that we receive.
Elementary School District 159
CounselorGreat Tech support! Ease of Instrument for use for Staff and Students. Professional staff that handle questions and concerns, quickly!
Central Community School District 301
School PsychologistI would give Satchel Pulse a 10. The customer support has been great! The team is always very responsive to our needs.
El Dorado School District
Behavior Support SpecialistMy experience has been exceptional. Timely response to questions, great training, wonderful product!
Gates County
TeacherAfter the first nine weeks of using Satchel Pulse, 88.1% of our students met their academic goals for the nine weeks, and the students are on track to meet the second nine weeks' goals.
Franklin Local Schools
IT SupportBy far, always the most responsive support I have ever had from any company!
Niles Middle School
Assistant principalSatchel Pulse delivers great data especially when you're trying to collect as much data as you can on a student to help with their academic success.
Hillsboro School District
Elementary School PrincipalSatchel Pulse is rooted in the gold standard of social emotional learning with CASEL.
Havana 126
CounselorSupport surpasses what I expected and is like no other program I’ve ever been involved with. Wonderful!
Niles Middle School
Assistant principalTeachers no longer need to find their own SEL resources and their own curriculum because it is all available in the Satchel Pulse library.
Cranston Schools
School Social WorkerIt has been a real pleasure working with all of you at Satchel Pulse. It's rare to experience the level of responsiveness and professionalism you've demonstrated, and it has been greatly appreciated.
Bibb County School District
ParaprofessionalYou are covering all my needs. You seem to know what is needed for all who participate.
Bensenville School District
TeacherSatchel Pulse is great! It is helping with communication between staff and the higher ups!
Hillsboro School District
Elementary School PrincipalWe love that Satchel Pulse easily and seamlessly analyzes the results for us.
Raymore Peculiar School District
TeacherThis is the easiest survey system I have ever used.
Dawson County School District
Executive Director of Student ServicesWe like that we can gather feedback frequently in smaller intervals, this helps us keep a beat on perception throughout the year.
Niles Middle School
Assistant principalSatchel Pulse helps to meet students' SEL needs, and that's why we're in education - to make sure that our students are well taken care of.
Limestone County School District
SuperintendentAs a new superintendent in the district, Satchel Pulse has been a huge help and will continue being so. We all want feedback and want our employees to know they have a voice, Satchel Pulse has provided that for us.
Hickman Mills C-1 School District
Associate SuperintendentLast year we had the least amount of resignations and retirements within the last five years.
Mekoryuk School
PrincipalSatchel Pulse gives an equal voice to every staff member, which they did not have before using this.
Douglas County School System
TeacherSatchel Pulse is so intuitive and easy to use. Help is always available if we ever need it!
Eek School
PrincipalThis is awesome. I can export the results from our student wellbeing survey with one click and compare results week on week.
Nelson Island School
PrincipalThe survey took very little time and the interface was student friendly. The students especially liked using the sliding scale with the different faces instead of numbers or words, that made it easier for them.