Speak up Wisconsin 2014

A participation guide for schools, districts & regional

centers Enable, engage and empower the voices of

your stakeholders

Speak Up 2014

Julie Evans, Project Tomorrow CEO

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

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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.

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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

Speak Up National Research Project

+ 3.4 million surveys

since 2003© 2014 Project Tomorrow

Speak Up 2013 National Reports

www.tomorrow.org

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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

Speak Up survey question themes

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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

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Creating a new digital learning

playbook –

Myth-busting

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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!”

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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 & districtso 9,005 schools and 2,710 districtso 90% public schools – 10%

private/parochial/charter/othero 32% urban / 31% rural / 37% suburbano 30% school wide Title 1; 43% majority minority school o All 50 states + DC + Guam + DODEA schools

National Speak Up 2013 Participation: 403,292

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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 & districts53 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).

Wisconsin: 18,993 surveys submitted!

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

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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

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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)

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

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Partner specific promotional materials to help with outreach:www.tomorrow.org/speakup/speak_up_PartnerTools.html

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Regional Counts: http://www.speakup4schools.org/Speakup2014/SurveyCounts/

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Region survey counts by district and school

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Password protected by region for reporting data results

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Sample region specific report with state and national comparisons

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Regional Center

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

National Speak Up Findings and reports

Targeted and thematic reportsDigital learning trendsMobile learning & social mediaPrint to digital migrationSocial learning Intelligent adaptive softwareDigital 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

More Speak Up? www.tomorrow.org

Your thoughts, comments, questions

Thank you. Let’s continue this conversation.

Julie EvansProject [email protected] x15Twitter: JulieEvans_PT

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