Employee Engagement & Well-Being Survey Results

Key Highlights from the Fall 2024 Employee Engagement & Well-Being Survey

  • Engagement overall had a marginal, decrease in 2024. However, most troubling is 15% lower participation from 2023.
  • Relative strengths are providing clarity of expectations and the strength of personal relationships within the District. The two greatest opportunities are to free people from unnecessary stress and help them see their value.
  • Across areas, union status and functional level, strengths, and opportunities differ - but most groups have relatively clear expectations and opportunities to improve recognition and access to materials, equipment, and information.
  • There is wide variation in the employee experience across teams within the District – this variation has increased in both positive and negative directions since last year. However, teams with world-class engagement, have and continue to thrive at SDUSD. Local leaders are the key.
  • Wellness has seen a meaningful decrease from last year. While intent to stay (retention) has also seen a similar decrease, it remains a relative strength for the district with 60% of respondents reporting they plan to be here a year from now.
  • Engagement and wellness can create a virtuous cycle as they positively influence each other. Both engagement and wellness, but particularly wellness, also increase a person’s likelihood to stay at SDUSD.

Read through the full executive summary of results provided by Gallup.

Key Highlights from the Fall 2023 Employee Engagement & Well-Being Survey

  • 2023 is a baseline year designed for the initial measurement of employee engagement, well-being, and other measures of importance to San Diego Unified School District.
  • There is a range of engagement across workgroups within the district. While the survey items are the same, there will be different interpretations of what the item means, and different actions to determine what can be done to improve the engagement for each employee.
  • Within the engagement items, the relative strengths were Q01: Expectations and Q07: Opinions Count. The largest opportunities for growth include Q04: Recognition, Q05: Supervisor Cares, and Q11: Progress.
Click here for further details on the survey, survey results, and a comparison of San Diego Unified’s results to the Education – Kindergarten through 12th Grade database, which includes more than 150 Gallup education clients, including 25 larger districts and more than 100,000 workgroups, for context when interpreting the results.