### Page | 1 **INTERVIEW GUIDE**  **FOR TEACHERS**  **AND COUNSELORS** TARGETED RESPONDENT: These interview questions are intended for teachers and counselors at schools served by grantees. At this time we do not have suggestions on how m any teachers and counselors should be targeted. CONTENT: This document contains draft interview questions to be asked of teachers and counselors at schools served by grantees . We sugge st questions that could be poised at the beginning or end of the school year, or both. T hese suggestions c ould be extracted to yield two types of interviews for teachers and counselors : (1) an interview for teachers served by grantees [G] that would be administered at the beginning of the school year [PRE]; (2) an interview for teachers served by grantees [G] that wo uld be administered at the end of the school year [POST] . We use [PP] to suggest that an interview question should be administered both at the beginning of the school year [PRE] and at the end of the school year [POST]. **1. [PP]**  **What do**  **School Turnaround Amer**  **iCorps members do**  **at your school? Did the activities change**  **throughout the year? If so, then why?**

**_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________**  **________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________**  **_____________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________** **_______________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________**  **2. [**  **POST ]**  **What level of interaction did you have with School Turnaround AmeriCorps members? In what**  **capacity, if any, did you work directly with AmeriCorps members**  **?**

**_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________**  **______________________________ _______________________________________________________________**  **_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________**  **_______ ___________________________________________________________________**  **3. [PRE]**  **Can you please describe the process for assigning tasks to**  **School Turnaround AmeriCorps**  **members?**

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**4. [POST] How did you communicate with**  **School Turnaroun d**  **AmeriCorps members about the progress of your students**  **with whom they were working?** 

**_____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________** **_________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________**  **_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________**  **________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________**  **5. [PP]**  **How prepared were the**  **School Turnaround AmeriCorps member** **s with whom you worked directly**  **to serve at your school**  **? What recommendations do you have about improving the training for**  **AmeriCorps members before or once they begin to work in schools**  **?**

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**____________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________**  **6. [POST]**  **Have School Turnaround AmeriCorps members had**  **a positive academic influence on the**  **students they work with ?** 

**_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________**  **_____________________________________________ ________________________________________________**  **7. [POST]**  **Have School Turn**  **around AmeriCorps members h ad**  **a positive influence on the students they**  **work with in terms of improved attendance, behavior, engagement, or socio -** **emotional health?**

**_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________**  **______________________________________________________________________ _______________________**  **8. [POST]**  **Who supervised the School Turnaround AmeriCorps members? How adequate is the supervision**  **of AmeriCorps members? By school faculty/staff? By a designated AmeriCorps team leader/supervisor?**

**___________________________________ __________________________________________________________**  **_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________**  **____________ _________________________________________________________________________________**  **_____________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________**  **9. [POST]**  **In which of the following**  **ways did School Turnaround**  **AmeriCorps members contribute to your school’s capacity to implement**  **its turnaround**  **plan ?**  **Specifically, how did AmeriCorps members help the school build capacity through...**  a) fostering respect among students and staff ? b) involving families (e.g. in attending events, providing access to information and resources to support their child’s education, helping students complete homework, volunteering in child’s classroom )? c) meeting the academic needs of specifi c groups of students ? d) meeting the behavioral and/or socio - emotional health needs of specific groups of students? e) filling additional instructional/support staff positions ?

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f) supporting teachers in the use of data/assessments and with classroom activities? g) p roviding before -, after - school, or extended learning time programming ? h) improving the school environment and climate ? i) other activities and contributions? (please specify)

**_____________________________________________________________________________________ ________**  **_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________**  **______________________________________________________________ _______________________________**  **_____________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________**  **10. [POST]**  **How satisfied**  **are you with the effectiveness of interventions provided by**  **School Turnaround AmeriCorps members?**  Probe (IF YES) : What worked well ? Probe (IF NO) : What needs to be improved?

**__________________________________________________________________________________________ ___**  **_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________**  **___________________________________________________________________ __________________________**  **_____________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________**  **11. [POST** **] What challenges h**  **ave you experienced in implementing School Turnaround**  **AmeriCorps m**  **embers ’**  **interventions in your classroom or in**  **student counseling** **/tutoring programs**  **? How were they resolved?** 

**_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________**  **____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________**  **_____________________________________________________________________________________________ __** **___________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________**  **12. [POST] What kind of feedback have you received about the**  **School Turnaround AmeriCorps**  **program from different stakeholders? In each case, what factors do you think contribute to this perception?**  a. From teachers? b. From school counselors and administrators? c. From parents? d. From community members?



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