The Walton Family Foundation and the good folks at Gallup have partnered for a series of reports on the current state of Education in America. The latest is “Teaching for Tomorrow: The Mattering Gap Among K-12 Educators.”
Page 4 has the key findings, which are absolutely worth everyone’s attention. I’ll share just the first:
Roughly one in three K-12 educators (35%) say they matter a great deal at their school. Mattering varies slightly by school type and subject taught, but the differences are small. This suggests mattering is less demographically driven and more a function of the system in which educators teach.
I have my own thoughts on why this is so low, but I recommend faculty and school administrators read the report linked above