December 5, 2011

What is Speak Up?

Speak Up is the annual research project conducted by Project Tomorrow, a national education nonprofit group that collects and reports on the views of K-12 students, teachers, administrators, and parents on 21st century education and technology. Over 2.2 million students, educators, and parents have shared their views regarding the use of educational technology through the Speak Up surveys.

This flyer is to encourage you to participate in this optional but extremely valuable survey.

Why participate in Speak Up this year?

Speak Up provides a unique way for the ideas and opinions of our families and community members to have an impact on archdiocesean and state level initiatives and in federal policies and programs. Each spring, Project Tomorrow shares the national Speak Up findings with the U.S. Congress, Department of Education, other federal agencies and policy research groups and associations. There is no cost to participate; no limit on the number of surveys that can be submitted; and all data collected is 100% confidential. Last year over 6,541 schools and 1,340 districts participated.

Be a part of this national movement to include more authentic stakeholder views in education discussions!

How do you participate in Speak Up?

The Speak Up online surveys are open for input now through December 23, 2011.

The St. Mary’s  Speak Up survey is online and accessible 24/7 from any Internet connected computer. Project Tomorrow has already registered our school to participate. All you have to do is take the 20 minute survey at:

http://www.speakup4schools.org/speakup2011/ using the password speakup_adw

Once you have logged on to the survey, find our school in the drop down list to begin.