Everything you need to know! September 27, 2016 Welcome to Speak Up 2016: Everything you need to know! Dr. Julie Evans CEO, Project Tomorrow

Today’s discussion questions What is Speak Up? Why should my school or district participate? How will the Speak Up data benefit us? What do I need to know/do to get started? If I have more questions, who do I contact?

Voices of experience Special guests: Christina Pluhar-Beeson, Anaheim Elementary School District (CA) Rod Carnill, Frederick County Public Schools (VA) Janet Riccio, SIATech

Research & evaluation studies Project Tomorrow, a globally recognized 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.

Speak Up Research Project on Digital Learning Annual research project since 2003 Uses online surveys + focus groups Schools/districts register to participate Surveys for: K-12 Students, Teachers, Parents, Administrators, Community Members Open for all K-12 schools and districts Schools and districts receive free report with their own data – and state and national data for benchmarking Data informs: policies, programs, funding at local, state and federal levels 4.5 million surveys since 2003 5

K-12 Champion Outreach Partners: (c) Project Tomorrow 2015

Speak Up survey question themes Learning & Teaching with Technology College and Career Ready Skills Students’ Career Interests in STEM Professional Development / Teacher Preparation Internet Safety / Data Privacy Issues / Homework Gap 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 New Classroom Models, Print to Digital, Online Assessments Designing the Ultimate School/Classroom

Activities Attitudes Aspirations Speak Up as a reality check on our assumptions, mythology or anecdotes about digital learning K-12 Students Teachers Parents Administrators Community Activities Attitudes Aspirations

Examples of data collected through Speak Up

Speak Up 2015 national participation: 505,676 K-12 Students 415,686 Teachers & Librarians 38,613 Parents (in English & Spanish) 40,218 School/District Administrators/Tech Leaders 4,536 Community Members 6,623 About the participating schools & districts 7,825 schools and 2,676 districts 25% urban / 35% rural / 40% suburban All 50 states + DC + Guam + DODEA schools

Students’ access to personal mobile devices

Connecting digital learning to the preparation of students for future success

Parents’ interest and support for digital learning – across all grade levels Parents’ View Parents of K-5 students Gr 6-8 students Gr 9-12 students Top concern: Tech use varies too much from teacher to teacher 42% 49% 51% Important: Students can use mobile devices in class 66% 72% 73% Best model: Blended learning sounds like the best model for my child 55% 57% Support: Willing to pay a tech fee to enhance digital learning 67% 64% 63%

Growth in teacher use of digital content – 3 years

What do teachers say they need to use digital content more effectively? Classroom set of mobile devices (59%) Planning time to work with colleagues (57%) Professional development (52%) Funds to purchase/license quality digital resources (51%) Confidence students have out-of-school Internet access (51%) Tech support as needed (48%) Consistent, reliable, high bandwidth Internet access (46%)

Understanding the pulse of digital learning: Looking beyond what we think we “see” to imagine what learning should be

Have your school or district participate! Speak Up 2016! Have your school or district participate! Surveys open Oct 12 to Dec 20 Learn more: Tomorrow.org/speakup @SpeakUpEd Online surveys for: K-12 students – individual + group Parents – English and Spanish Teachers Librarians/Media Specialists School Site & District Administrators Technology Leaders Community Members & Communications Officers

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

Today’s discussion questions What is Speak Up? Why should my school or district participate? How will the Speak Up data benefit us? What do I need to know/do to get started? 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

How will we use the data? 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 .

Voices of experience Special guests: Christina Pluhar-Beeson, Anaheim Elementary School District (CA) Rod Carnill, Frederick County Public Schools (VA) Janet Riccio, SIATech

Today’s discussion questions What is Speak Up? Why should my school or district participate? How will the Speak Up data benefit us? What do I need to know/do to get started? If I have more questions, who do I contact?

All schools and districts are pre-registered. Add your contact info to get updates and the local data reports. (c) Project Tomorrow 2016

http://www.speakup4schools.org/speakup2016/ Promote survey link to your stakeholders. We will send you weekly updates on your participation numbers (c) Project Tomorrow 2015

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

Today’s discussion questions What is Speak Up? Why should my school or district participate? How will the Speak Up data benefit us? What do I need to know/do to get started? If I have more questions, who do I contact?

Meet your new best friend for Speak Up 2016! Jenny Hostert Speak Up Operations Manager jhostert@tomorrow.org 949-609-4660 x 17

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Looking forward to your participation in Speak Up 2016! Julie Evans jevans@tomorrow.org 949-609-4660 x15 Twitter: JulieEvans_PT and SpeakUpEd Copyright Project Tomorrow 2016 This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the author.