Well, I'm about to embark in my first action research for grad school. Please feel free to comment  any ideas or suggestions you might have that will help me on this new endeavour!!! Here's my action plan!!!

Tool 7.1 Action Planning Template

 

 

 

Goal: Determine correlation between student behavior and parent involvement

 

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  Action Step(s)       Responsible          Time Line          Needed Resources     Evaluation

1. Survey will be administered to teachers on how they communicate to parents regarding student behavior problems.	Teachers and teacher specialist (myself).	Sept.2013-October 2013	Software: Survey Monkey, research on how to effective evaluate surveys	Determine effective methods of communicating to parents’ student behavior. Establish a campus wide teacher referral process for conduct, and parent contact and response process.
2. Explore/ Investigate approaches to increase parent involvement.	Teachers and teacher specialist (myself)	Sept. 2013 –  December 2013	Research Journals/ Articles, peers and colleagues	Collect information and data to compile methods for increasing parent involvement to assist and improve student behavior concerns.
3. Gather data from teacher referrals and communication logs.  Accumulate data from personal communication logs and student referrals. And teacher behavior logs.	Teachers and teacher specialist (myself)	Sept. 2013 – Dec. 2013	Teacher- parent communication logs, teacher-student conduct logs, teacher specialist-parent communication logs, and teacher-student conduct logs.	Compose/create an action plan correlating parent involvement with student conduct.