Action Research Plan

Action Plan

 

Goal: Implement school-wide standards on note-taking and cross-curricular writing skills to increase student achievement and post-secondary success.

 

Objectives/Outcomes:

• Increase student abilities in oral and written communication.
  
• Increase post-secondary success for students.
  
• Increase high school success for students.
  
• Identify and implement a campus-wide note-taking and cross-curricular writing structure.
  

 

Action Steps What Will Be Done?	Person(s) Responsible Who Will Do It?	Timeline By When? (Day/Month)	Resources Resources Available Resources Needed	Evaluation How? What instruments?
Step 1: Form a committee	Principal	9/1/2010	A. teachers/staff   B. literature discussing college and career readiness	Survey of teacher interest
Step 2: Research various note-taking and writing standards	Committee members	9/15/2010	A. computers, internet access, professional library   B. none	Discussion at next meeting
Step 3: Agree on standards to be implemented	Committee members/ campus leadership	9/29/10	A. research committee members bring to meeting   B. library for meeting place	Discussion and agreement by committee members and administrators
Step 4: Creation of rubrics and skill documents	Committee members	9/29/2010	A. computers, internet access, professional library   B. example rubrics	Discussion and agreement by committee members and administrators
Step 5: Professional development for teachers and staff	Committee members/ campus leadership	10/6/2010	A. teachers and staff; time for professional development   B. background information; literature or research for basis of implementation; examples and handouts for staff	Teacher/staff survey of support and interest and additional needs
Step 6: Instruction of standards to students	Teachers/staff	Start of second semester 2011	A. committee created handouts and rubrics   B. instruction time; handouts for students; student buy-in	Student survey of initial thoughts
Step 7: Collection of data	Committee members/ teachers/staff	Ongoing	A. student work samples and assessment scores   B. prepared data collection forms	Comparison of test scores against student samples and data collection forms
Step 8: Collection of data	Committee members/ teachers/staff	June 2011- end of year	A. teachers and students   B. time; teacher and student survey	Compare data to survey comments
Step 9: Analysis and reevaluation of plan	Committee members/ administration	June 2011	A. data   B. comparison of data and teacher input on effectiveness	Discussion of committee members and campus leadership on effectiveness based on data analysis.
Step 10: Additional professional development	Committee members/ campus leadership	August 2011	A. teachers and staff; time for professional development   B. results of Spring data collection	Teacher/staff survey of additional needs
Step 11: Implement revised action plan based on data and evaluation	Teachers/staff	August 2011	A. committee revised plan and documents; previous year's data   B. instruction time; handouts for students; student buy-in	Comparison of new data to old data