Access to student data can improve teaching and learning. Hear firsthand how educators, school districts, and the private sector are using student data to improve educational outcomes and how they are safeguarding student information.

1. Julie Evans
@JulieEvans_PT
CEO, Project Tomorrow
June 30, 2015
Why
Student
Data?
Selected
Speak Up 2014
National
Findings

2. Annual national research project
 Using online surveys + focus groups
 Surveys for: K-12 Students,Teachers, Parents,
Administrators, Community Members
 Special: Pre-ServiceTeachers in Schools of Education
 Open for all K-12 schools and schools of education
 Schools, districts & colleges receive free report with
their own data
Inform policies, plans & programs
 Local: your stakeholder data
 State: state level data
 Federal: national findings
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Speak Up National Research Project
4 million
surveys since
2003

3.  Learning & Teaching with Technology
 College and career ready skills
 Students’ Career Interests in STEM
 Professional Development / Teacher Preparation
 Internet Safety / Data Privacy Issues
 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
 Flipped Classroom, Print to Digital, Online Assessments
 Designing the Ultimate School/Classroom
Speak Up survey question themes
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4. K-12 Students 431,231
Teachers & Librarians 44,289
Parents (in English & Spanish) 35,337
School/District Administrators/Tech Leaders 4,324
Community Members 6,656
About the participating schools & districts
o 8,216 schools and 2,676 districts
o 30% urban / 40% rural / 30% suburban
o All 50 states + DC + Guam + DODEA schools
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Speak Up 2014 national participation: 521,846

5. (c) Project Tomorrow 2015
Speak Up National Findings
Why Student Data?
 Teachers’ use of data to inform teaching
 Student data privacy as a district priority
 Parental and student concerns
 District policies around data privacy

6. (c) Project Tomorrow 2015
Speak Up National Findings
Why Student Data?
Teachers’ use of data to inform teaching
79% of teachers say they are regularly using data to
inform their teaching practice
 76% of first year teachers
o 84% of teachers with 4-10 yrs of experience
 86% of middle school teachers

7. (c) Project Tomorrow 2015
Speak Up National Findings
Why Student Data?
Student data privacy as a district priority
 34% of district administrators say this is a
”wake up in the middle of the night” type
challenge for them
 1/3 of district administrators also say that using
longitudinal data is an effective way to
increase student achievement

8. (c) Project Tomorrow 2015
Speak Up National Findings
Why Student Data?
Parental and student concerns
 43% of parents are concerned that their
child’s student records are not
sufficiently protected at school
 19% of high school students say that is
their concern as well!

9. (c) Project Tomorrow 2015
Speak Up National Findings
Why Student Data?
Parental and student concerns
Grade level of child Agree: Teachers are
not using data to
understand how to
help students learn
Elementary School 43%
Middle School 44%
High School 43%

10. (c) Project Tomorrow 2015
Speak Up National Findings
Why Student Data?
District policies around data privacy
What have you done
to support data
privacy?
All
District
Admin
Hardware and
software in place
76%
Staff person with
responsibility
53%
Policies and
procedures in place
48%
Educate teachers 43%
Educate parents 32%
Student digital
citizenship instruction
40%

11. (c) Project Tomorrow 2015
Speak Up National Findings
Why Student Data?
District policies around data privacy
What have you done
to support data
privacy?
All
District
Admin
In Small
Districts
In Middle
Districts
In Large
Districts
Hardware and
software in place
76% 78% 75% 73%
Staff person with
responsibility
53% 55% 56% 46%
Policies and
procedures in place
48% 46% 47% 50%
Educate teachers 43% 45% 41% 38%
Educate parents 32% 29% 33% 23%
Student digital
citizenship instruction
40% 45% 41% 38%

12. (c) Project Tomorrow 2015
Speak Up National Findings
Why Student Data?
District policies around data privacy
Have you received instruction or information about
how your school district is protecting student data?
75%
54%
62%
25%
46%
38%
Teachers
Parents
Students Gr 9-12
Yes No

13. (c) Project Tomorrow 2015
Speak Up National Findings
Why Student Data? . . .
Personalization of Learning Process
“Personalized learning is when a child is receiving
instruction that is on their own level and at their own
pace. With the use of apps and online learning
software, students are able to access curriculum at their
level and execute it at their own pace. It also can be used
as informal assessing and helps the teacher see the
strengths and weaknesses of the child.”
Middle School Teacher, North Carolina

14. Thank you for this conversation!
Julie Evans
jevans@tomorrow.org
949-609-4660 x15
Twitter: JulieEvans_PT and SpeakUpEd
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