Why Do Schools/Districts Participate in Speak Up?

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Why do schools/districts participate in Speak Up?

“To give the students a voice in the direction we take in implementing more technology-based opportunities.” — Amy Whitener, Kearney R-1 Schools, Missouri

“Because we feel that all voices should be heard…” — Tammy Spann, Cabot School District, Arkansas

“…So that opinions can be heard about creating 21st century learning environments.” — Vicki Green, Brandywine Springs School, Delaware

Speak Up Overview Speak Up is a unique research project designed to collect and report on the authentic, unfiltered ideas and views of K-12 students and their parents, teachers and administrators.

Speak Up has three primary objectives:

1. To provide a means for local schools and districts to easily and effectively listen to and act upon the ideas of their stakeholders 2. To provide a conduit for the voices of education stakeholders, most notably students, to inform national and/or state/provincial policies and programs 3. To stimulate new local discussions around the use of technology within education.

Release of Speak Up Data Each spring, Project Tomorrow creates national reports on the aggregated US survey data. The data analysis and the resulting reports are done 100% by in house Project Tomorrow staff. The US national reports are released in a series of Congressional Briefings in Washington DC and through numerous conference presentations, webinars and meetings with federal agencies, state education agencies, associations, organizations, research groups, think-tanks, business groups, and policy organizations throughout the year. This past year, Project Tomorrow CEO, Julie Evans, presented Speak Up data findings in over 50 conference presentations. Additionally, every participating school and district receives free access to their own local Speak Up aggregated data reports (which includes all of the survey questions and their own respondents’ data totals) along with the national data totals to use for benchmarking. All of the local data is secured for the “eyes” of the Speak Up contact person only at each school or district; these special contact people have a unique password to access that data. It is the discretion of the Speak Up contact person if they want to share their aggregated data with others at their school or district.

To learn more about Speak Up, visit www.tomorrow.org.