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@JulieEvans_PT

CEO, Project Tomorrow

October 1, 2015

Everything

you need

to know

about

Speak Up

2015

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1. What is Speak Up?

2. Why should my school or

district participate?

3. How will the Speak Up data

benefit us?

4. What do I need to know/do to

get started?

5. If I have more questions, who

do I contact?

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


4 million

surveys since

2003

What is Speak Up?

K-12 National Champion Outreach Partners:


Learning & Teaching with Technology

College and career ready skills

Students’ Career Interests in STEM

Professional Development / Teacher Preparation

Internet Safety / Data Privacy Issues

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 Ultimate School/Classroom

Speak Up survey question themes



o K-12 Students

o Teachers

o Parents

o Administrators

o Community

Activities

Attitudes

Aspirations

K-12 Students 431,231

Teachers & Librarians 44,289

Parents (in English & Spanish) 35,337

School/District Administrators/Tech Leaders 4,324

Community Members 6,656

About the participating schools & districts

o 8,216 schools and 2,676 districts o 30% urban / 40% rural / 30% suburban oAll 50 states + DC + Guam + DODEA schools


Speak Up 2014 national participation: 521,846


Share national and

state level results to

inform policies,

programs and funding

for digital learning


Share local

results with

school and

district

leaders to

inform your

local

initiatives



2. Why should my

school or district

participate?


benefit us?

2. What do I need to know/do to get

started?

3. If I have more questions, who do I

contact?


Why should we “Speak Up?”

Have a voice in policy decisions

Get authentic feedback from your students,

colleagues, stakeholders – use real data, not

anecdotes or myths for your decisions

Compare your stakeholders’ views with others –

within district, ESC, state, nation

No gotcha – all 100% confidential

Let us do the work for you! No costs to you.

No costs to schools, districts, states – use your $

to impact student learning instead

Types of digital

content

Teachers

(Nat’l) 2013

Teachers

(Nat’l) 2014

TX Teachers -

2014

Online videos 46% 61% 55%

Powerpoints,

Prezis 60% 65% 67%

Google Drive for

Edu 29% 40% 31%

Online

curriculum 22% 34% 46%

Online

textbooks 23% 27% 37%

Game based

environments 25% 28% 30%


Benefits

• Increased student

engagement

• Extends learning day

• Enhances relevancy

and quality of

instructional

materials

• Improves teachers’

skills with technology

Concerns

• Not enough

computers/devices to

student access

• Balancing

instructional

priorities

• Providing enough

bandwidth to support

media *

• Evaluating quality of

digital content * (c) Project Tomorrow 2015


Sample data:

Texas teachers’ wish list for professional development

1. Using technology to differentiate instruction

2. Using digital games within the classroom

3. Using tablets in the classroom

4. Using technology for formative assessment

5. How to identify quality digital content


Sample data:

Obstacles to using technology at school?

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

Can't text

Can't use my own mobile

Can't access social media

Internet is too slow

Teachers limit tech use

Too many rules

Edu websites are blocked

AZ Gr 9-12 AZ Gr 6-8

Sample data

Parents: what concerns you about technology

usage at your child’s school?

Concerns Parents in

2014

Parents in

2013

Student data privacy 43% 30%

Websites/portals are not

current

42% 22%

Teachers’ lack technology skills 42% 15%

Too much variance in tech use

by teacher and classroom

38% 32%

School technology is old or

out of date

36% 11%


48%

68%

72%

83%

52%

56%

48%

47%

54%

63%

51%

36%

32%

35%

23%

14%

Gr K-2

Gr 3-5

Gr 6-8

Gr 9-12

Digital Reader Tablet Laptop Smartphone

Sample data:

MD students’ personal access to mobile devices



2. Why should my school or district

participate?

3. How will the Speak Up

data benefit us?


get started?

5. If I have more questions, who do

I contact?

.

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 have a greater voice in policy

To create a new digital learning playbook


How will we use the data?

Via Speak Up, I finally have data that is useful and meaningful; it is an

amazing service that is provided to schools. I can't wait to compare

data from last year to this year to see how we've changed, how we've

grown, etc. It is an amazing planning tool.

—Milena Streen, St. Ignatius High School (OH)



Through the years I have used Speak Up data to help prepare the

District’s strategic plan, to plan professional development, and to

help shape a shared vision of how technology and core curriculum

should be delivered. Survey results have been referenced when

planning the district's budget and prioritizing technology

infrastructure and instructional technology investments. Speak Up

data has been used to help craft and secure competitive grants and

it has led to the consideration and creation of new courses.

—Paul Caputo, Southern Columbia Area School District (PA)



We have shared the [Speak Up survey] data with our leadership

teams, higher education partners, school based staff, and Board of

Education. Every presentation for the past year has included our

data and references to Speak Up and the national data.

—Fran Glick, Baltimore County Public Schools (MD)

Speak Up data has helped garner support for 1 to 1 initiatives,

increased professional development and changes in

instructional best practices and expectations.Right Quote

—Rod Carnill, Frederick County Public Schools (VA)

We were writing a new 4 year technology plan last year and we

used the [Speak Up] 2012 data to support the reasons we were

writing the items in the plan.

—Jorge Cavazos, Alief Independent School District (TX)













New Themes for 2015:

o The Homework Gap

o Ultimate Science Classroom

o Reading Print vs. Digital

o Online Videos and Movies within

Instruction

o Blended Learning

o Data Privacy

o Impact of Digital Initiatives

o Communications and Engagement

o Teacher Professional Development

o Ed Tech Funding

o



“Without data, you

are just another

person with an

opinion …


“Without data, you are just another

person with an opinion …

Introducing the

Speak Up data to inform

your digital learning plans and

opportunities

How will you use your Speak Up data?




participate?


benefit us?

4. What do I need to

know/do to get

started?

5. If I have more questions, who do

I contact?

Online surveys for:

o K-12 students – individual + group

o Parents – English and Spanish

o Teachers

o Librarians/Media Specialists

o School Site & District Administrators

o Technology Leaders

o Community Members


All schools are

invited to

participate

Surveys open

Oct 1 – Dec 18

Getting started

New this year:

special surveys for:

Science Teachers

Communications Officers


All schools and

districts are pre-

registered.

Add your contact info

to get updates and the

local data reports.


Promote survey link to

your stakeholders. We

will send you weekly

updates on your

participation numbers

http://www.speakup4schools.org/speakup2015/


http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/Texas.html




participate?


benefit us?


get started?

5. If I have more

questions, who do I

contact?


Meet your new best friend for Speak Up 2015!

Jenny Hostert

Speak Up Operations

Manager

[email protected]

949-609-4660 x 17

mailto:[email protected]

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