Having Our Say
The Having Our Say project targets different groups of educational stakeholders to discover their perspectives on education for the 21st century, with a specific focus on teaching and learning with technologies. The process involves surveying a group of stakeholders and based on the results of the survey, conducting focus groups that probe more details from participants. The information gleaned from the survey and focus groups is then developed into a video script that is performed by a subset of the original stakeholder group in a grassroots video production. To date, Having Our Say has targeted middle grade students from North Carolina and middle grade teachers from North Carolina. For 2008-2009, we are targeting a variety of business people from leading companies in North Carolina.
Sponsors for the Having Our Say Project are the Friday Institute, NC Business Committee for Education, and the NC Partnership for 21st Century Skills.
