AASA is once again pleased to partner with our friends at Project Tomorrow as they administer the Speak Up survey, which gives education stakeholders the opportunity to share their viewpoints about key educational issues, particularly concerning digital learning and the use of technology to support future ready schools. The 2015 survey closes this Friday, December 18, meaning this is the last week for you to participate.
Here are the participation numbers as of COB Friday December 11:
Speak Up 2015 Counts to Date: 401,034 total
surveys
Students: 329,261 Teachers: 33,286 Administrators: 3,791 Parents: 29,242 Community
Members: 5,454
Update – Quick Facts
- Online surveys open now for K-12 students, parents,
teachers, librarians, school site administrators, district administrators,
technology leaders and community members. New this year, special surveys
for Science Teachers and Communication Officers.
- Surveys opened on Oct 1 and will remain open until Dec
18
- New questions this year include topics such as: Homework gap, ultimate
science classroom, print vs. digital, videos and movies within
instruction, communications and engagement, and data privacy.
- Speak Up is all over Twitter this year – follow us @SpeakUpEd or follow Julie @JulieEvans_PT for updates
and news about all things Speak Up
- Our Speak Up America Campaign was a huge success with
over 80,000 surveys taken during the weeklong promotion and celebration
event. At
the request of many we have extended our social media campaign and book
giveaways into next week.
- Check out our new online interactive map with real time
updates on state by state participation: http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/participationmap.html
- is your home state on the map?
Sneak peek at some preliminary Speak Up 2015 data!
In celebration of our Speak Up America campaign, we have
pulled a special snapshot of preliminary data for students, parents, teachers,
administrators and community members. Click on the links to view each of our
special snapshots.
- Monday, December 7, 2015 — Parents
- Tuesday,
December 8, 2015 — Teachers
- Wednesday,
December 9, 2015 — Students
- Thursday,
December 10, 2015 — Science Teachers
- Friday,
December 11, 2015 — Community Members and Communication Officers
Two things that you can do today to support Speak Up
- Complete a Speak Up survey yourself as a parent or
community member.
With our community member survey, everyone who cares about K-12 education
has the opportunity to share his or her ideas about digital
learning. Take your community member survey or the parent survey
here: http://www.speakup4schools.org/speakup2015.
Share this link within your organization and through your social media
networks as well. I have attached some sample text to share
out as well.
- Promote school or district participation in Speak Up to
your customers and partners. Our biggest challenge is getting the word out about
Speak Up to school and district leaders. Speak Up is a service to
them – but they cannot take advantage of it if they don’t know about
it. Here are some ways that you can help with that:
- Put Speak Up information and the survey link on your
website
- Send out information in newsletters, listservs, emails
about Speak Up
- Include Speak Up information in your webinars or at
your meetings and conferences all next week
- Reach out to key influencers in your organization to
help spread the word about Speak Up