Action Research Plan

Action Research Plan

Questions:

How did the behavior and daily consistency of students in our schools common areas improve after the safe and civil lesson plans were implemented by every faculty and staff in the school?

Goal:

To help develop safety within our school in common areas that usually cause behavioral and distributive areas.

Goal:

To help develop safety within our school in common areas that usually cause behavioral and distributive areas.

Activities	Resources	Responsibility	Time line	Benchmark/ Assessment	Revision to SIP based on monitoring and assessments
Monitor each grade level in the common areas at different times within the day.	Safe and civil observation form	Safe and Civil team Administrators	August/ September 2010	Observations	Making sure that each common area is being observed thoroughly.
Have each safe and civil grade level representative go over the lesson plans with their teams.	Lesson plans created and approved by each faculty/staff	Safe and Civil team	October 2010	Teacher teaching teachers	Make sure that each lesson plan is in enough detail to teach the students exactly what is expected of them.
Take record of office referrals that have come to the office in common areas.	Office referral program	Administration	August-October 2010	Run reports	Making sure all of the referrals have been entered and done correctly.
Set up times for each grade level to do walk throughs of the lesson plans in each common area	Lesson plans/common areas	Administration Safe and Civil team	November/ December 2010	Teacher lead lessons	That each teacher is following the lesson plans specifically and not skipping steps.
Give teachers about two weeks to get the routine of the lessons in place in the common areas.	Lesson plans	Teachers	January 2011	Teacher observation	Going around to make sure the lessons are being taught consistently daily.
Take record of office referrals that have come to the office in common areas.	Office referral program	Administration	November-January 2010/2011	Run reports	Making sure all of the referrals have been entered and done correctly.
Do walk throughs giving the teachers little tips in what may help while during their two-week training period.	Lesson plan form	Safe and civil team Administration	January/ February 2011	Observations	Make sure that teachers feel like you are just trying to help them and not force more rules upon them.
Begin research walk throughs in the same common areas with the same grade level at the same times the original ones were taken.	Safe and civil observation form	Administration Safe and civil team	February 2011	Observations	Making sure that students are doing what they are supposed to not just because someone is watching them.
Wait around three weeks giving time in between and do another round of interviews as done above.	Safe and civil observation form	Administration Safe and civil team	March 2011	Observations	Making sure that students are doing what they are supposed to not just because someone is watching them.
Get safe and civil team together to go through the data of the surveys of the walk throughs and compare to the office referrals at the given date.	All of the data from the observation forms Office referral program	Administration Safe and civil team	April 2011 February/ April 2011	Observation reports Run reports	Make sure that all of the data taken is accurate and the referrals are in the system correctly.
Present the information to the staff and have them give feedback on what changes they think need to be made next year and what has worked this year.	Charts and graphs created from data collected on walk throughs	Administration Staff/faculty Safe and civil team	May 2011	Teacher feedback Reports ran and given to each teacher	Correct any problems the staff may feel can be corrected for next year in order for the lessons to continue to run smoothly.

Reflection Week 2

In week two I learned there are several action research projects that go on at schools that I would have never considered as action research. I think of staff development, data desegregation and other group meetings we have at our school just things we have to do. In reality though all of these things can be turned into or used as an action research to better your school or try and resolve a problem you have. One of the things I liked the most is when they said to not "reinvent the wheel" if people have studies and research out there that can assist you then use these things. Don't try and be the hero working yourself to exhaustion when there are other people who have been there and offer their information for your benefit. I think that action research has a lot more dimensions to it than I thought when I began this class last week, and I feel it can be truly beneficial if it is used correctly and in a way that helps your campus grow and reach your end goal of success.

First Blog...

What Action Research means to me...

Action research is a highway to solving an issue or issues that have become a concern for all or some stakeholders on your campus. You can put together a group of people to assist with this inquiry, as it will give you more perspectives on how to start your research and come up with a plan to resolve the issue. By gathering data and analysis along with researching different articles or case studies on people who have dealt with issues the same or similar to yours you will be able to get several insights that will allow you to begin the process. I feel that I as an upcoming administrator will be able to use and help current administration use action research by getting involved in issues that they currently feel are a reoccurring problem that needs some solutions. I am currently on a safe and civil team for my school and we go to several trainings a year that have researched several of the common areas of concern in schools. It gives each of us ideas that we can bring back to our administrators and other teachers and draft different ideas on how they are similar or different to ours and what we can do to get the end result that they did. It has also helped me see the importance of researching what others have done because you are able to see ideas you may not have thought of.

How Educational leaders may use blogs....

I believe blogs are a great way for educational leaders to read and share their ideas with others because the more valuable information you are able to attain and learn from the better leader you will be able to become.