Community Engagement
Summary
In an effort to determine the priorities of our residents, Northbrook School District 27 renewed its community engagement activities in 2024 and began taking active steps this past October to engage the public and solicit feedback on a potential solution to our infrastructure challenges.
We received feedback from 516 community members through in-person and virtual presentations, an online survey, and a scientific phone survey on what improvements they would like to see in their schools and how they would like to fund those improvements.
Using input from the District and its experts, we created a “menu” of potential projects, funding options, and funding levels. The District has listened closely to the community as individuals considered and ranked each item on the menu to share their priorities.
During this community engagement, we developed messaging, recruited a community-based committee to lead these efforts, coordinated a discussion with the community committee, conducted a scientific phone survey, and held three public engagement sessions (one virtually) at different times and days of the week to ensure all community members could participate. We received a strong response, with 198 contributions from engagement sessions and online feedback, plus 318 phone survey responses.
Feedback from the community was documented during this time through notes taken of all direct communications, feedback provided on paper and digital forms at the community committee meeting and public engagement sessions, responses to a publicly available feedback form available on the district’s website, and spreadsheets generated from the results of the scientific phone survey.
Reports & Data
Webinar Recording
Slide Presentation
Click the image below to open the Community Engagement presentation as a PDF.