Action Research Plan

Action Planning Template
Goal:  Sustain a positive culture and climate throughout the school year for over 50% of the campus’ students, staff, and parents.
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
Review, analyze, and reflect on the survey data from the previous school year with the culture and climate to identify why our culture and climate was so poor for the 2012-2013 school year.	La’Shandra Gordon Culture and Climate Team	August 7-21, 2013	2012-2013 surveys	Results from survey analysis
Survey stakeholders at the beginning of the school for input on what motivates them to be apart of the success of our campus.	La’Shandra Gordon Culture and Climate Team	August-Sept., 2013	Completed Surveys	Compile a list of ideas/suggestions and activities to keep a positive culture and climate
Organize activities based on survey data that will involve parents, students, teachers, and the community.	La’Shandra Gordon Climate and Culture Team	August 22-May 31, 2014	Items needed to effectively carry each activity decided upon by the team after survey analysis.	Grade Level Input and surveys
Administer surveys at the middle of the school years	La’Shandra Gordon Climate and Culture Team	December 2013-	Surveys	Review, dissect,  analyze and reflect on the survey data to make necessary changes.
Collaborate with team to revise our plan of action if necessary based on the MOY survey results	La’shandra Gordon Culture and Climate Team	January 2014	Surveys Journals from collaboration	Survey Results
Implement new activities if necessary or continue with our current plan of action.	La’Shandra Gordon Culture and Climate Team	March 2014	Surveys Journals with a compiled list of activities	Survey Results
Administer EOY surveys	La’shandra Gordon Culture and Climate Team	May 2014	Surveys	Survey Results
Report the results of my wonderings about sustaining a positive culture and climate throughout the school year for at least 50% of stakeholders	La’Shandra Gordon	June 2014	Results from surveys Collaborations with the CCT Interview notes	Survey Results

Week 2 Reflections

I was out of the country for week 2 but now that I'm back and I'm reading all of the blogs I feel really overwhelmed!!! It seems like everyone has it together but me.  I have a thought for my ARP and I will be posting it on my blog tonight but other ARPs I've read sound great.  Just frustrated and overwhelmed at this point.  Please read my ARP later this week and comments will be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

How Educational Leaders Can Use Blogs

Educational leaders can communicate with staff via blogs.  Instead of printing weekly newsletters and monthly calendars the information can be put on the campus blog and staff members can easily refer back to the blog to retrieve the information instead of keeping up with the printed copy.

What I've Learned About Action Research:

I have learned that action research will allow the administrator to be engaged in identifying the problems he/she thinks are important and need to be addressed.  Being involved in the action research study also gives one the opportunity to take part in developing and implementing a plan of action.  The administrator is directly involved with the research and is a collaborator with the team in this process.  The decisions/plan of the administrator and his/her team would be more effective than that of an outsider because the team is more aware of the weaknesses and the vision of the campus.  I also learned that action research can be done individually by one person enrolling in a college course to complete an advance degree to enhance his/her skills.  Also collaboratively as a school leadership team where a small group works together to identify campus issues and analyze data.  Action research can also take place school wide in your PLC's. I can use action research in my classroom as a teacher as well.  Each year I reflect on my teaching practices, successes and failures.  I make adjustments for the next year but I do not reevaluate the changes in comparison to the previous year. I also plan to reflect and collaborate with others about what I've done because I learned in my readings this week that reflection takes place in a community of learners; not in isolation. (Martin, Danzig, Wright, Flanary, Brown, 2008, pg.107)