Key takeaways from the 2021-2022 Speak Up Research Project include:
- Principals are concerned with maintaining staff morale, with more than half reporting it as a top concern among many issues still facing districts after the pandemic.
- Teachers are more willing to let students have autonomy in how they learn now than before the pandemic, with a huge jump of educators indicating that they feel comfortable in allowing students to have a say in how they want to learn.
- Students are more comfortable utilizing school technology to learn and complete assignments. Almost every single category of digital usage in the classroom went up in comfort level among students.
Project Tomorrow will leverage these findings as it works towards the 2023 National Educational Technology Plan (NETP). The U.S. Department of Education recently announced that it has awarded the NETP contract to the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) and its coalition partners, including Project Tomorrow.
Educators can view the Congressional Briefing recording via edWeb and can earn a CE certificate through the platform. In addition to Project Tomorrow, Speak Up 2021-22 was made possible through support from Finalsite, iboss, Spectrum Enterprise, Agile Education Marketing and edWeb.
To view and download this year’s report, visit https://tomorrow.org/speakup.
This press release originally appeared online.
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