Summertime

Well, summer has begun and most schools are now out for the year. Throughout the summer you can still register your school for the 2010 IYS. We will be ordering our first round of materials shortly so the more schools that register early, the better.

Changes for the 2010 IYS have not yet been finalized but we will post them on our website (and here) when they are.

The 2008 State Report is still waiting to be approved but as soon as it is, we will both post it in its entirety on our website and a notice will be posted here on this blog.

2009 IYS Online Schools Results

SmartTrack has uploaded all completed surveys back onto their website. Schools can again access their results at this time. We apologize for the delay in availability from our previous post. Please contact SmartTrack at 866-714-8080 or Jessica Thomas at the IYS Office 309-451-7849 with any questions or difficulty you may be having in accessing your results.

2009 IYS SPF Community Reports

All community-level reports have been sent to their SPF Coordinator via email. If you have not yet received your report or if you would like a printed copy, please contact Jessica Thomas at 309-451-7849 or by email to jcthomas@chestnut.org.

If your community received a report without a grade level you thought participated (i.e., report without 12th grade included when 12th grade did participate), you have been contacted regarding this. We need a signed release form from the school whose data is missing before it can be released. As you know, if there is 1 school reporting at a specific grade level (in our example for 12th grade) releasing those results would equate to releasing individual school data. We do not release individual school results outside of the school without a signed release form from school administration.

Please contact us with any requests for additional reports you may need. Remember that we will not be producing a statewide report with 2009 IYS data.

2009 IYS - Data Collection Complete

Thank you to all the SPF Community Schools who participated in the 2009 IYS! We have received all of the completed surveys at our office and should be receiving the remaining data back from scanning this week. If your school has not yet received your initial report by the end of the week (6/12/09), please contact Jessica Thomas by phone at 309-451-7849 or by email to jcthomas@chestnut.org.

When all data is received, Community Reports will be completed and will be sent to SPF Coordinators via email. If you would like a hard copy of your community report or any other specialized reports, please contact the IYS office with your request.

Thanks again for all your hard work on getting your schools surveyed during this off-year! As a reminder, all SPF Schools who participated in the IYS in 2009 are now registered to complete surveying in 2010 with the same information. If your contact person is changing, please contact the IYS office at your earliest convenience.

2010 IYS Registration for 2009 SPF Schools

All schools within a SPF community who participated in the 2009 IYS have been registered this week to complete the 2010 IYS. The contact person from 2009 was sent an email stating the need to inform us of any contact changes for next year. All information will be confirmed in the fall so any changes in number of students, method of delivery, or survey date can be processed before materials are shipped.

SPF schools who did not participate in 2009 are now being recruited as part of the statewide email recruitment process. Their first email regarding 2010 registration was sent on Monday, 6/1/09.