5 Key Insights: How Educators Boost Surveys with AI-powered Engagement
We hosted an Advisor demo and Q&A to showcase our brilliant AI-powered engagement platform and survey analysis feature and show you how it can help leaders make better decisions more quickly. Schenectady City School District’s Deputy Superintendent Joseph DiCaprio and Director of K12 School Counseling, Dr. Rebecca DeVries joined us, sharing their insights and experiences using ThoughtExchange.
In case you missed this informative event, here are a few highlights.
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What is Advisor?
This cutting-edge tool uses generative AI to provide lightning-fast survey analysis and summarize vast amounts of qualitative and quantitative feedback from your engagements.
Leveraging our secure integration with OpenAI, Advisor provides leaders with critical community or employee engagement insights in a conversational manner.
Collect data through a survey, an Interview, or an Exchange. Advisor will quickly analyze the results for you, providing an overview of your data analysis, talking points, and summaries. Use custom or templated prompts to ask Advisor more questions or to explore the next steps.
Check out the Advisor demo, now!
ThoughtExchange AI-powered engagement platform and Advisor for education
From school districts to private businesses to government agencies, leaders need reliable data to achieve their objectives—whether they’re conducting climate surveys or implementing their strategic plan.
However, accessing employee and community member insights is challenging. ThoughtExchange's AI-powered engagement platform and Advisor can help with everything from gathering, analyzing, and taking action on large amounts of data to making decisions tailored to your organization’s needs.
Some key uses include:
- Amplifying student voice for policy changes
- Tackling attendance and achievement gaps
- Understanding group-specific feedback and concerns
5 key insights from Schenectady Schools
As mentioned, Schenectady’s Deputy Superintendent, Joseph DiCaprio, and Director of K12 School Counseling, Dr. Rebecca DeVries joined our recent webinar.
They use ThoughtExchange to gather insights from their community and align their people on their strategic initiatives and organizational goals.
Here are 5 ways they’re using the platform to help their district thrive:
Improving strategy
ThoughtExchange optimizes Schenectady's 4-pillar strategic plan: student success, passionate employees, family and community partnerships, and efficient systems, from gathering data on student readiness to improving employee retention and engagement.
Advisor helped amplify student voices in policy discussions, directly influencing difficult policy decisions and allowing the district to make informed and representative choices.
Tackling achievement gaps and attendance issues
Understanding group-specific feedback and concerns
Improving efficiency and responsiveness with AI
Dicaprio and Devries agree that Advisor has improved the district’s workflow, allowing them to act on feedback quickly. According to Devries, this is critical to avoid disengaging stakeholders because when people give input, they expect action in return.
She says, “When you ask people’s opinion about something, there’s nothing worse for an organization than not doing something about what you’ve asked them.”
She adds, “The Advisor component allows us to gain back that time. And we needed the time to do something about what people were telling us. Because people will stop talking to you and answering your questions if you don’t show them you’re going to do something about what they’ve told you.”
The AI-driven analysis accelerates this process by making data easier to present and act on. AI analysis also speeds up the decision-making processes. Mr. DiCaprio shared an example where they used Advisor to analyze safety survey results within weeks—a process that traditionally took months. Key insights allowed them to quickly adopt a weapons detection policy.
Both DiCaprio and Devries emphasize how Advisor allows for real-time data analysis, during board meetings. Advisor’s ability to address unanticipated questions on the spot, enhances leadership’s credibility and decision-making efficiency.
Implementing with ease
Key takeaways
Our Advisor demo and Q&A highlighted the benefits of ThoughtExchange’s AI-powered engagement platform and Advisor for leaders across many types of organizations.
From tapping into student voice for policy changes and tackling attendance and achievement gaps to understanding your community’s concerns, ThoughtExchange is efficient and easy to use.
Ready to put ThoughtExchange to work in your district? DiCaprio and Devries have some advice: They encourage educators to engage with new technologies and emphasize the importance of sustainable systems supporting long-term growth.
Plus, they agree that schools should support technology adoption, ensuring they have systems to process data and improve practices. Finding collaborators within the organization is critical to making the journey easier.
