Final Draft Action Research

Action Research Plan

Questions:

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

Goal:

To help strengthen safety within our school by creating policies and procedures in common areas that will decrease office referrals throughout the school.

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 and show videos of the right and wrong way. Make sure to give binders to teachers with all the lesson plans in place for easy access. Also have a group of students go around modeling the correct way to do each common area procedures.	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 and make sure to show them the videos of the right and wrong ways of following the procedures.	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.