1. Speak Up 2014
A participation guide for schools,
districts & regional centers
Enable, engage and empower the voices of your
stakeholders
Julie Evans, Project Tomorrow CEO

2. Today’s Discussion:
 About Project Tomorrow & Speak Up
 Types of questions on the surveys
 Why participate?
 Online resources & support
 Your questions and comments
Speak Up National Research Project:
Views of K-12 Students, Parents, Teachers,
Librarians and Administrators
© 2014 Project Tomorrow

3. Project Tomorrow, a national education
nonprofit organization
Programs:
• Research & evaluation studies
• STEM education programs
• Advocacy for digital learning
Mission: To ensure that today’s
students are prepared to become
tomorrow’s leaders, innovators and
engaged citizens of the world.
© 2014 Project Tomorrow

4. Speak Up National Research Project
Annual national research project
 Using online surveys + focus groups
 Surveys for: K-12 Students, Teachers, Parents,
Administrators, Community Members
 Special: Pre-Service Teachers in Schools of
Education
 Open for all K-12 schools and schools of
education
 Schools, districts & colleges receive free report
with their own data
Inform policies, plans & programs
 Local: your stakeholder data
 State: state level data
 Federal: national findings
+ 3.4 million
surveys
since 2003
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5. Speak Up 2013
National Reports
www.tomorrow.org
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6. Speak Up survey question themes
 Learning & Teaching with Technology
 21st Century Skills: Digital Citizenship & Global Awareness
 Technology within specific curricular areas
 Students’ Career Interests in STEM
 Professional Development / Teacher Preparation
 Internet Safety
 Administrators’ Challenges / Bandwidth Capacity
 Emerging Technologies both in & out of the Classroom
 Mobile Devices, Online Learning, Digital Content, E-texts
 Educational Games, Social Media tools and applications
 Flipped Classroom, Print to Digital, Online Assessments
 Designing the 21st Century School
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7. Why do schools and districts
participate in Speak Up?
.
 Power of local data
 Use data as input for planning
 To justify budget and purchasing decisions
 Inform new initiatives – as an evaluation tool
 As a tool to engage parents
 Use for grant writing and fund development
 Content for professional development
 To create a new digital learning playbook
© 2014 Project Tomorrow

8. Creating a new digital
learning playbook –
Myth-busting
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9. Commonly heard education mythology
“New teachers don’t need any training in how to use
technology within teaching”
“Kids only want to use mobiles so that they can
text & play games in class”
“Parents won’t accept online textbooks”
“Online learning undercuts the role of the teacher.”
“There is so much great content online for teachers to
use in the classroom – so, what is the problem?”
“Just put technology XYZ in the classroom and magically
students will learn more!”
© 2014 Project Tomorrow

10. National Speak Up 2013 Participation:
403,292
K-12 Students 325,279
Teachers & Librarians 32,151
Parents (in English & Spanish) 39,986
School/District Administrators 4,530
Community Members (new this year!) 1,346
About the participating schools & districts
o 9,005 schools and 2,710 districts
o 90% public schools – 10% private/parochial/charter/other
o 32% urban / 31% rural / 37% suburban
o 30% school wide Title 1; 43% majority minority school
o All 50 states + DC + Guam + DODEA schools
© 2014 Project Tomorrow

11. Wisconsin:
18,993 surveys submitted!
K-12 Students 14,677
Teachers & Librarians 1,834
Parents (in English & Spanish) 2,211
School/District Administrators 171
Community Members (new this year!) 100
About the participating schools & districts
53 Districts and 135 schools (with at least 10 surveys)
Top five districts: Howard-Suamico School District (1,745), School
District of West Salem (1,321), Verona Area School District (1,253),
Menomonie Area School District (990), Rhinelander School District (813).
© 2014 Project Tomorrow

12. What is new for 2014?
 New questions and topics
 Group surveys for Gr 3-5 and parents (+ K-2)
 New promotional tools
 New reporting tools – including ability to
disaggregate the data for WI regional support
centers
© 2014 Project Tomorrow

13. What is new for 2014?
 New questions and topics (sampling)
o Privacy of student data
o Teachers’ familiarity with digital badges for PD
o Student interest in coding
o School filters/firewalls
o Results from online assessment pilots
o Importance of e-rate funding
o Designing the ideal mobile app
© 2014 Project Tomorrow

14. What is new for 2014?
 New questions and topics
 Group surveys for Gr 3-5 and parents (+ K-2)
 New promotional tools
 New reporting tools – including ability to
disaggregate the data for WI regional support
centers (using Texas as an example)
© 2014 Project Tomorrow

15. Customizable State page with Speak Up FAQs for
school and district contacts:
www.tomorrow.org/speakup/wisconsin.html
© 2014 Project Tomorrow

16. Partner specific promotional materials to help with outreach:
www.tomorrow.org/speakup/speak_up_PartnerTools.html
© 2014 Project Tomorrow

17. Regional Counts:
http://www.speakup4schools.org/Speakup2014/SurveyC
ounts/
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18. Region survey counts by district and school
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19. Password protected by region for reporting data
results
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20. Sample region specific report with state and
national comparisons
Regional
Center
© 2014 Project Tomorrow

21. Why should you promote Speak Up
to your participating districts?
.
 Power of local data
 Use data as input for planning
 To justify budget and purchasing decisions
 Inform new initiatives – as an evaluation tool
 As a tool to engage parents
 Use for grant writing and fund development
 Content for professional development
 Dispel mythodology about digital learning
 To create a new digital learning playbook
© 2014 Project Tomorrow

22. More Speak Up? www.tomorrow.org
National Speak Up Findings and reports
Targeted and thematic reports
Digital learning trends
Mobile learning & social media
Print to digital migration
Social learning
Intelligent adaptive software
Digital parent series
Presentations, podcasts and webinars
Services: consulting, workshops, evaluation and
efficacy studies
Looking forward to a great
Speak Up year with you!
(c) Project Tomorrow 2014

23. Your thoughts, comments, questions

24. Thank you.
Let’s continue this conversation.
Julie Evans
Project Tomorrow
jevans@tomorrow.org
949-609-4660 x15
Twitter: JulieEvans_PT
SpeakUpEd
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