Connect for School Sport Climate Survey

Physical and Health Education (PHE) Canada is launching a new Connect for School Sport (C4SS) project to ensure that all children and youth, from coast to coast to coast, have more equitable, safer, and inclusive opportunities to participate, compete, develop, and thrive in school sport.

To better understand the current landscape, opportunities, successes, and challenges within school sport in Canada and identify meaningful ways for school sport systems to be experienced equally and equitably by all, the C4SS project is launching a Connect for School Sport Climate Survey.

Why Your Input Matters
Your feedback will help inform the C4SS project’s environmental scan and the development of a comprehensive school sport system framework aiming to:
● Increase student participation and positive school sport experiences, particularly those in equity-deserving populations, respectfully: girls and women; persons with a disability; Indigenous, Black, and racialized people; 2SLGBTQIA+ populations & gender-diverse people; Newcomers; remote/isolated communities; and lower socio- economic backgrounds;
● Build capacity and relevant support for school sport leaders and coaches; and,
● Improve the long-term health of school sport systems from coast to coast to coast.

Who Can Participate?
We are looking for input from those who are working in K-12 schools or connected school sport systems (intramural or interscholastic), which includes:
● School Staff Members: Teacher, Principal, Vice-Principal, Athletic Director, Educational Assistant, or Support Staff working inside a school building or coaching a school sport.
● School Community Coaches: An outside volunteer or contract coach who actively coaches a school sport.
● Pre-Service Teachers: Teacher candidates coaching (head coach or assistant coach) a school sport.
● Recent School Coach (Past 3 Years): Anyone in the roles above who has actively coached a school sport at any point since 2023.

Survey Details
● Time Commitment: Approximately 20 minutes.
● Deadline to Complete: Monday, June 22nd, 2026 at 11:59 pm PST
● Confidentiality & Privacy: All responses are completely confidential. The information gathered will be stored internally in our database and used to inform the environmental scan and national school sport framework. Your individual responses will be grouped with others, and we will never use this data to identify you.

Click here to take the Connect for School Sport Climate Survey

If you have any further questions about the C4SS project or this survey, please contact Caleb Poulin at calebpoulin@phecanada.ca