Title: Parent Conferences: Collecting Feedback

Provide opportunities for anonymous feedback

Not all caregivers feel comfortable providing direct feedback and input during parent conferences. Therefore, we should create ways for them to provide anonymous feedback.

- An anonymous informal parent survey or comment box is an excellent way to encourage parents to provide helpful information that they otherwise might not share.
- We will discuss more formal parent surveys in a minute, but informal surveys can be provided for parents to respond to anonymously and drop in a file or box.

Ask specific, open-ended questions, such as “How can we be more encouraging?”

To help improve the feedback they received in their comment box, one school posted specific questions related to PBIS above the box. One example was “How can we be more encouraging?” School personnel changed the questions periodically throughout the year, depending on their current, data-based needs. Not only did posting a question above the comment box result in more specific feedback, but also it increased the number of comments they received.