Welcome
Thank you for participating in ACSI's Flourishing School Culture Initiative. As a result of your participation, you will receive a customized school report that provides your school’s major strengths as well as opportunities for growth toward flourishing, along with benchmarking of your results against the national sample.
This webpage is your source of all the information you will need to successfully facilitate this survey with your school's stakeholders. Please do not share the link to this page with another school. If you have a colleagues interested in participating, please direct them to the following link where they can learn more and register to participate in the FSCI: acsi.org/flourishing-school-culture.
Assessment Group Links
Your school's point of contact for the FSCI will receive an email with a unique link to distribute to each of the following audiences:
- Faculty & Staff (including all teachers, administrators, and other school personnel, including support staff, counselors, librarians, business managers, etc.)
- Board Members
- Parents/Guardians (of students at ALL grade levels)
- Alumni
- Students (6th – 12th grades; note that the school will need to plan for administration to all students in grades 6-12, i.e. scheduling time in computer labs, specific classes, etc.)
- School Site Contact Person (the person designated to answer the School Metric Survey, which asks for data such as enrollment, special services, budget, etc.)
Please note that surveys should take between 5-10 minutes to complete (with the exception of the School Metric Survey, which can take longer depending on the ready availability of metric data).
Sample Invitation Documents
These are provided for your use in inviting the above groups to participate in the survey. Please download and edit as desired.
- Sample Alumni Letter
- Sample Board Letter
- Sample Faculty Staff Letter
- Sample Parent Letter
- Sample Student Instructions
Suggested Implementation Timeline
You will need to allow for a 4-6 week implementation timeline for the FSCI.
The specific phases and activities are outlined in the table below. It is suggested that you print this table and fill in your target completion date (for Phase 5) and then work backward to fill in dates for the other phases.
