"Since 2002, feedback from the Teacher Working Conditions Survey has shaped local and statewide education policy and improved the quality of instruction delivered in schools across the state. Every educator who participates in this important survey plays a part in determining the future of our children and public education in North Carolina." -- Governor Mike Easley

Weekly and Final Grand Prizes

Once again, thanks to the NC Business Committee for Education and corporate sponsors - the Governor's Office is holding weekly and grand prize drawings for faculty in schools that reach 100% response rates. This year each school that reaches the 100% response rate will enter a weekly drawing in which it could win a $1,000 grant to improve teaching conditions. In the grand prize drawing, schools will be eligible for a $2,500 grant. These new prizes are in addition to the weekly drawing in which a teacher or administrator from a school with a 100% response rate will win a cash prize of $1,000 weekly, and will become eligible for the $2,500 plasma TV from AT&T to be awarded in the grand prize drawing.

To participate in the drawings, each school that reaches the 100% response rate on the 2008 Teacher Working Conditions Survey, when verified and contacted via email by the Governor's Office, must submit the names of all licensed teacher (including part-time and itinerant). Upon receipt of the electronic list, all submitted names will be placed in the weekly drawing. Names to be entered in each weekly drawing must be submitted by the posted deadline of each week. The sooner a school reaches 100% response rate, the better the chances are that school and/or someone from the school will win the drawing! See the winners!

View students from Salem Middle School building the barrel used in the weekly TWC Survey Drawings.

The 2008 North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey was administered March 17-April 21.

The 2008 NC Teacher Working Conditions Survey included new questions just for principals, developed by administrators and key education groups from across the state. View the 2008 Principal Survey Questions

As in the 2004 and 2006 online surveys, the anonymous access codes for teachers and administrators to respond to the survey, from any Internet location, were mailed to schools via the NCAE association representative. View the 2008 TWC Survey questions

Why the Teacher Working Conditions Survey is important:

Research shows that positive working conditions increases student achievement.
Governor Easley used data from previous Teacher Working Conditions Surveys to include a special provision in his budget that required the State Board of Education to develop a NEW instrument to evaluate all school principals statewide. This new evaluation instrument will be implemented in the 2008-2009 school year. Each principal will be held accountable for using Teacher Working Conditions Survey data in annual School Improvement Plans and for teacher recruitment/retention issues at the school level.
Teacher Working Conditions Survey results will be incorporated into the NEW 2008 School Improvement Plan as required by the State Board of Education

For more information please contact the Office of the Governor by phone at 919-733-3921 or email NCPTSC.