Futurekids partners with Speak Up 2007, as North American School Survey Non-profit Approaches One Million Surveys
Futurekids’ CEO Ms. Dzana Homan
announced today that the company is a sponsor in this year’s Speak Up 2007
North American online school survey. Survey participation is open to every
public, private, parochial and charter school in the U.S. and Canada and
continues until December 15, 2007.
This marks the fifth year of
collecting and reporting authentic, unfiltered, viewpoints about education
and 21st century learning. This year, an estimated 325,000 surveys are
projected to be completed. Since 2005, 857,000 surveys have been
collected, so the group will surpass the million survey cumulative total
this year.
The Speak Up program provides the only national online
method for every K-12 student, teacher, parent and school leader to have a
voice on key education topics. The group will release national Speak Up
findings in March 2008, commencing with a Congressional Briefing in
Washington D.C.
Ms. Homan encourages all schools to participate in
the national survey, at www.netdayspeakup.org. All U.S. schools are
pre-registered, however school officials may need to activate their school
or district registration and pick a password.
“We need all
teachers, students and parents to give us their thoughts so we can
continue to move towards a true 21st century classroom environment,”
commented Ms. Homan. “It’s really important to help us have a voice for
improving education throughout North America, and this is a critical
platform to be able to do that.”
Ms. Julie Evans, CEO of Project
Tomorrow.org and the leader behind the Speak Up 2007 surveying initiative,
expanded on this idea. “We have a tremendous opportunity to improve
education across the board, and this comprehensive survey allows us to
gather feedback that we present to educational leaders at the highest
levels of government and also at the school level. We’re all committed to
providing honest, accurate feedback on what we can do to improve learning
in our schools.”
Other partners in the Speak Up 2007 initiative
include CDW-G, SMART Technologies, PASCO Scientific, the William and Flora
Hewitt Foundation, KI Education, as well as the educational groups SETDA,
CoSN and NSBA.
About Speak
Up
Speak Up is a national initiative of Project Tomorrow
(formerly known as NetDay), a national education nonprofit group. The
vision of Project Tomorrow (http://www.tomorrow.org/) is to ensure that today’s
students are well prepared to be tomorrow’s innovators, leaders and
engaged citizens of the world.
About
Futurekids
Futurekids is the premier provider of technology
teacher training solutions for schools and universities around the world.
Futurekids has a 22-year record of success in technology education. Their
core competency is providing technology training as it relates to teaching
and learning. They have relationships and achievements with many key
educational partners such as Intel, IBM and Dell. For more
information on Futurekids, please visit http://www.futurekids.com/.
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