Wisconsin 2012 Speak Up Results
· WISCONSIN ONLY RESULTS placed a large XLS spread sheet in DPI Google Shared Drive -- http://sy.pe/8AGr -- It will work best if you download the 175 page document as it breaks down the results by grade band & role (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, parents, etc…) using the tabbed XLS worksheets!
· National Results Summary: http://www.tomorrow.org/
· WISCONSIN Results (LONG URL): https://docs.google.com/a/dpi.
Key Findings from this year’s NATIONAL report include:
· Today’s teachers, administrators and parents are increasingly mobile-using, texting, tweeting social media devotees whose personal and professional lives are dependent upon Internet connectivity and online collaborative learning environments. A majority of teachers (52 percent), parents (57 percent) and district administrators (52 percent) are now regularly updating a social networking site, and many are using a personal mobile device such as a smartphone to do that.
- Four out of ten district leaders (41 percent) in 2012 pinpointed achievement measured by test scores and closing the achievement gap as top concern points for their district, a growth of 21 percent over 2011 responses.
- Teachers are increasingly interested in leveraging technology for activities with students and many are modifying their instructional plans to incorporate more digital experiences. Nearly a majority of classroom teachers (45 percent) noted in 2012 that they were creating more interactive lessons because of having access to technology, an increase of 25 percent in just the past two years.
- A continuation of the multi-year stagnation in funding for new education technology investments is finally forcing school and district leaders to scrap the plans they have on hold, and to test new ways to leverage technology to increase revenue or decrease costs even though some of these approaches challenge conventional wisdom and long held policy positions. In 2012, we see proof of this digital conversion happening right in the principal’s office. Today, over a third of principals (36 percent) say that a new Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) to school policy for students is likely this school year.
- Social media and digital tools and resources have transcended the classroom and are emerging strongly as key components of 21st century school to home communications. 37 percent of parents wish that their child’s teacher or school would communicate with them via text messaging, less than one-quarter of teachers (23 percent) say that texting between parents and teachers is a common practice today.
SpeakUp Survey 2012
Year
|
K-12 Students
|
Teachers
|
Librarians
|
Parents
|
Dist Admin
|
Sch Admin
|
Tech Leaders
|
Totals
|
2012
|
13,958
|
2,311
|
129
|
3,558
|
63
|
127
|
30
|
20,176
|
2011
|
13,745
|
1,289
|
80
|
806
|
39
|
92
|
**
|
16,051
|
2010
|
6,630
|
760
|
*
|
783
|
82
|
*
|
*
|
8,255
|
NOTE:
Ø In 2010 Teachers and Librarians were counted in a single category as Teachers and District, School and Tech Leaders were counted in a single category as “administrators”.
Ø In 2011, Teachers and Librarians were disaggregated and the District and School administrators were disaggregated.
Ø In 2012, School Administrators were disaggregated further into Tech Leaders.
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