Action Research Plan Revised

Outcomes	Activities	Resources/Research Tools Needed	Responsibility to address activities	Time line	Assessment	Revision to SIP/PIP
Identify need within the school to develop research question	Meet with Supervisor/Mentor	SIP and CIP for our school and district.  Discussion with Supervisor and Mentor	Myself Principal/Supervisor Anna Renfro Mentor- Laila Patrick Counselor – Karen Russell	May 2012- July 2012	After Discussion 4th grade Math scores were an issue.  Will Self contained classrooms make a difference in these scores?
Collect data from last year	Gather data from last year’s 4th grade students from the two departmentalized Math classrooms.	Copies of overall Math scores for the 4th grade students last year.   Copies of computer intervention summaries Copies of all Benchmark scores, district assessment scores and formative assessments	Myself	July 2012 Aug 2012	Spreadsheet of all scores
Contact two  4th grade teachers to ask if they  will participate by providing data from their classroom at least but not limited to every 6 weeks.	Decide the two teachers that will be reliable.	Email teachers, Discussion Contract of participation – this will just outline their responsibilities and expectations of what I need for this project.	Myself Two 4th Grade teachers -	July 2012 – Aug. 2012	Signed contracts
Schedule meetings with teachers every two weeks .	Meet with teachers at least twice a month to get data and check on progress	6 week report card grades, Print out of computer math intervention (Success Maker and EZ CBM)  Print out of all Benchmarks, District Assessments and other formative assessments used to guide instruction	Myself Two 4th Grade teachers	Aug 2012 – May 2013	Spreadsheet of compared data
See improvement or decline in scores	Monitor all data from teachers at least every 6 weeks but not limited to that time frame	6 week report card grades, Print out of computer math intervention (Success Maker and EZ CBM)  Print out of all Benchmarks, District Assessments and other formative assessments used to guide instruction	Myself Two 4th grade teachers	Aug 2012 May 2013	Spreadsheet of compared data
Teacher survey	Create a teacher survey for the 4th grade teachers .  Complete one survey for BOY concerning their opinion of what the EOY outcomes will be.  Complete one survey for EOY to see how their opinions have changed, if at all.	Survey Monkey Website Two surveys: 1.        BOY survey 2.       EOY survey	Myself 4th grade teachers	Aug 2012 May 2013	Survey Monkey survey results
Report findings	Meet with faculty MOY and EOY to report progress of report and findings at the end of the year during at least two faculty meetings	Copies of Data collection spreadsheet containing current data compared to last years data.   One copy for each teacher.	Myself Supervisor Mentor All teachers	Nov. 2012 May 2013	Spreadsheet of data comparison