Action Research: It's something we do as teachers all the time but never noticed. As a good teacher, you often use data, assessments, and even projects to determine where your students are in their learning. Then, with that information, you make adjustments....a little more time here, an extra practice there...and so on.
As an administrator in training, I must also learn to utilize this skill for my leadership. I am learning more and more that leadership is less about coming in with new ideas ready to make changes and more about really learning to look and listen to what the campus needs.
With this new knowledge, I plan to use action research to further develop my projects on my campus. I have been given the task of building a parent involvement program from the ground up. However, before this program can come to be, I must first research to find out what my school and its surrounding community needs. A traditional PTO may not be effective in the type of area that our school is located, all though a recent survey showed that more than 72 percent of parents feel that they are not connected and informed of the goings on in our school. My goal is to improve this! After finding what the community needs, I must then try to make our staffs' needs align with this. Thus I believe the process and work it will take to make this program successful is by definition action research at its finest!
Stay tuned to track my progress!
Brittney you are such a great writer! I love the way you are going to be able to tie in your experience with the development of your PTO program on your campus with your action research. Because it is an issue on your campus. Way cool. I wish you all the best with this huge project. And from what little I know about you, I know you will develop a great program. Good luck!
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