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Action Plan and Reflection: Week 2

My action plan's purpose will focus on how to include all stakeholders, specifically teachers, in the decision-making process. This would best be feasible through the increased participation in SBDM committee and PLCs. My campus is not familiar with PLCs and would most benefit our campus by increasing communication and fostering collaboration in a vertical sense. Although we meet at grade-level meetings, it is not the same as a third, fourth and fifth grade teachers meeting to discuss reading strategies or math practices.

The interviews for this week's lecture where Mr. Briseno and Dr. Chargois discuss the link between qualitative and quantitative data made so much sense. We do this on a daily basis. I see how my students perform on benchmarks and scrutinize each objective and parallel it with the questions missed. Still, I also think about whether or not my students had a good breakfast, were they upset or feeling sick, or is there an underlying family issue that has been ongoing and affects my students psychologically.

Action Research 5301- Week 1

Action research, as its name suggests, has the participant actively engage in the learning and sharing of such research. The researcher not only gathers and analyzes, data, but he or she takes on various roles to actively participate in processes that are not normally practiced by the researcher. So seeing different points of view through research enables educational leaders to spear-head endeavors that are more meaningful to teachers. Action research allows professionals to see data, interpret it, and use it to solve problems with solutions found in action research.

The Dana text does an excellent job in comparing action research to traditional research. The text mentions that traditional research is linear. Action research is “cyclical” in that topics of concern or curiosity are interconnected because these topics have been closely studied by teams of professionals in the school community (Dana 7). There are no better assets to schools than the teachers themselves. And allowing them to take leadership roles in Professional Learning Communities or Leadership Teams will certainly make action research a more productive and effective way to dissect, strategize plans to solve problems and support programs that have proved to be successful through supported data.

In such a technology driven time, it’s no wonder that educational leaders use blogs to communicate with stakeholders on specific issues. A blog can be used to inform students of weekly activities and homework help. A blog can be utilized by PLCs or SBDM committees to disseminate information. A blog can certainly be used to share and pose possible questions for action research in the community to include all stakeholders.