Friday, July 30, 2010

Gloria's Attendance Action Research 2010

Tool 7.1 Action Planning Template

Week 3 Draft of Action Research Plan 

Action Step(s)

Person(s)

Responsible

Timeline:

Start/End 

Needed

Resources 

Evaluation 

Search on google education web sites articles on how attendance, discipline and parent involvement; impacts performance of students

Myself.

I will start my

Search and take notes. 

Aug'10-

March'11. 

Internet, communication by e-mail with my site supervisor, interviews with the assistant principal in charge of attendance, counselors, and grade level team leader.

I will ask review to my site supervisor and other colleagues. 

I will create surveys for parents and personal interviews of reasons of absences. 

Parents and myself. 

September'10-March'11 

Survey Monkey, parents, teacher conference time for interviews.

I will ask review from assistant principal in charge of attendance.

I will meet with counselors about discipline issues and referrals.

Counselors and myself.

October'10-March'11

Referrals records, meet with teachers of repetitive students that are often in the office.

I ask suggestions from the two counselors and teacher in charge of time out department and referrals.

Record of absences from 2009-2010 of bil.PK groups.

Myself.

Nov'10-Feb'11.

Permanent records.

Assistant principal will review this draft.

I will interview parents about what events of the school atended in 2009-2010.

Myself and parents.

Dec'10.-Feb'11.

Teacher conference time for interviews

My site-supervisor will review the data.

I will find out the best strategies that work for increase performance in students in terms of these factors.

All stakeholders and myself.

Aug'10-March'11

Internet, stakeholders, colleagues, records.

My site-supervisor, colleagues, administrators, counselors will revise and make suggestions.

5 comments:

  1. You have a great plan. It is detailed and you are working closely with the administration in implementing your plan. I really like the surveys and the parent interviews. Keep up the great work!

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  2. Jennifer:Thanks for your nice words!

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  3. Your action plan looks nice, very easy to read and follow. I am planning on using Survey Monkey too. I think that it is going to be a great tool to get beneficial feedback.

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  4. Gloria, I see that your action plan is much like mine. I took it a step further and will track previous high attendance problem pre-k kids and see how they adapted to kindergarten. Hopefully, I can see a correlation here. What do you think? Will this help in our research?
    Do you think you would implement this idea? Why or why not?

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  5. Gloria, my supervisor suggested to me to tie in a Service Learning project in with my action research. Hopefully, this will increase parental involvement. Also, we discussed an intresting point: is it just 3 or 4 year olds who show more absences? more girls or boys? what subgroups (Hispanic, African American, ESL, regular ed)? Hopefully there is a pattern or correlation somewhere....

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