This week in EDLD 5301 there was a great deal of reading about action research plans. Specifically focusing on nine areas that can be targeted by action research plans. Those areas include, staff development, curriculum development, individual teachers, individual students,(s), school culture/community, leadership, management, school performance, and social justice or equity issues. Many excellent examples were given in the text Leading with Passion and Knowledge, by Nancy Dana. Reading the examples she presented in the book enabled me to brainstorm ideas for my action research plan. I had a better understanding of how to phrase my topic so that it would be measureable and not too broad. I took three ideas for an action research to my site mentor, my principal, and we discusses all three ideas. We concluded by agreeing upon an action research plan. That plan will be stated as follows: How can individual student laptops be used in the junior high to improve student acheivement? We are both eager to begin the action research plan and excited to see the conclusions that are arrived upon. Thus the journey begins...
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