Final Action Research Plan

 Statement:

The Title I school has minimal parent involvement. The student population is represented by 50% Hispanic, 49% African American, 87% economically disadvantaged, and 46% at-risk as reported on the AEIS 2010-11 profile.

Action research questions:

• In what ways can we improve parent involvement?
• What are the relationships between parent involvement and student behavior?
• What are the relationships between parent involvement and student achievement?

 

Action Planning Template
Goal: Improving Parent Involvement
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
Collect and review literature/ research on parent involvement.	Lara Nixon, Intern	06/23/2012 – 08/01/2012	Literature Websites Blogs Text Action Research	-Sort research into different categories that address the topic -Look for missing information -2/3 of each type -Discuss with categories and breadth with principal
Collect and review parent involvement data from 2011-2012.	Lara Nixon, Intern Office staff or Administrator	07/01/2012 – 08/01/2012	·        school sign-in sheets ·        parent conference forms ·        volunteer forms ·        field trip volunteer forms ·        PTO membership and activity attendance	-Create a  spreadsheet to show the relationship between the data and the 3-5 grade levels -Create a spreadsheet for attendance data at school or PTO Activities -Create a spreadsheet to compare attendance time related to year
Collect and review staff and parent survey data regarding parent involvement	Lara Nixon, Intern Office staff or Administrator	08/01/2012 -08/10/2012	-List of survey questions regarding parent involvement methods, issues, improvements -Parent survey -Staff survey	-Create two spreadsheet that represents the data collected
Facilitate a meeting with principal to review school data on parent involvement for 2011-2012 and action research data from literature review.	Lara Nixon, Intern Principal Staff	08/01/2012  08/10/2012	-Power point about parent involvement and statistics -Graphs and charts that represent the areas of involvement -Graphs and charts that represent the involvement of different subpopulations -Present patterns or questions	-Discuss data and any unanswered questions -Discuss how to address data with staff at a BOY pd session -Outline BOY parent activity and parent meeting
Facilitate staff meetings/pd sessions to review parent involvement data with the intent to brainstorm ideas for BOY and other campus activities with regards to (PI) in and outside of school	Lara Nixon, Intern Principal	08/10/2012 – 08/20/2012	-Power point about parent involvement and statistics -Graphs and charts that represent the areas of involvement -Graphs and charts that represent the involvement of different subpopulations -Present patterns or questions	-Staff focus groups will confer on data and share ideas -Staff will draft a list of activities they plan on hosting and groups will rotate to add ideas for (PI) parent involvement in and outside of school -Review BOY school and classroom activities, discuss in depth (PI) -Discuss outline of BOY parent activity and parent meeting -Have staff sign-up on activity committees
Reflection on implementing the BOY activities and activities throughout the year; monetary needs, staff volunteer availability and methods of  parent involvement	Lara Nixon, Intern Principal Leadership Team	08/10/2012 – 08/20/2012	-Staff draft of school activities for the year -Parent involvement methods -BOY activity -Staff sign-up	-Questionable activities will be set aside for a staff meeting -Create a draft budget for each activity -Analyze staff sign-up and target low enrollment areas for PTO assistance -Create an outline with staff volunteers and budgets, share as google.doc with staff -Invite teachers to meet to discuss questionable activities
Facilitate a parent volunteer meeting to address the school volunteer policy, activities on campus, activities from home and after hours activities and programs, room parent needs	Lara Nixon, Intern Volunteer Teachers Principal	08/20/2012 – 08/30/2012	-Power point to address main points of parent involvement affects, coming activities, at home and after hours activities -Parent volunteer sign-up sheets for coming activities -Room parent sign-up sheets -Volunteer background forms	-Have staff do a head count at the meeting -Have parents fill out a survey about meeting -Compare meeting attendance and forms filled out, with teachers in reference to last year
Facilitate meetings with teachers in grades 3-5 monthly to discuss progress of students, parent data collected and parent involvement facilitated by the teachers.	Lara Nixon, Intern Teachers Grades 3-5	09/01/2012 – 05/01/2013	-Student grades -Parent communication logs -Parent Involvement logs -Office/parent volunteer sign-in sheets	-Monitor weekly communication, behavior, academic progress or struggles, student and parent involvement attendance -Create goals each month to target student and parent involvement -Chart progress and goals met
Conduct a staff MOY survey regarding their observations of student behavior, achievement, parent involvement, and suggestions for improvements for the 2nd semenster.	Lara Nixon, Intern Principal Staff Leadership Team	11/15/2012 – 12/20/2012	-List of survey questions regarding parent involvement methods, issues, improvements that we can make for the 2nd semester -Staff survey	-Write a summary of the survey results -Compare MOY data to BOY survey data -Correlate data from teacher meetings
Reflection on implementing the parent involvement methods and progress of targeted students with the intent to make changes if needed	Lara Nixon, Intern	12/20/2012 – 01/10/2013	-Summary of the staff survey data (regarding parent involvement methods, issues, improvements for the 2nd semester) -Compared data from surveys -Correlated data from teacher meetings	-Reflect on the results from the staff MOY survey, the compared data, and the correlated data from teacher meetings -Draft changes if needed
Facilitate staff meetings/pd sessions to review parent involvement data from teacher survey with the intent to discuss changes to the 2nd semester	Lara Nixon, Intern Principal Leadership Team Staff	12/20/2012 – 01/10/2013	-Results from the staff MOY survey, the compared data, and the correlated data from teacher meetings -Drafted changes	-Staff discussion on results and drafted changes
Conduct a staff EOY survey regarding their observations of parent involvement for the 2012-13 year and suggestions for improvements for the 2013-14 year.	Lara Nixon, Intern Principal	05/01/2013 – 05/30/2013	-List of survey questions regarding parent involvement methods, issues, improvements, celebrations -Staff survey	-Have teacher team and administrator look over survey and discuss the questioning prior to conducting survey -Create a summary of the data collected
Conduct a parent EOY survey regarding the school’s approach to parent involvement and suggestions for improvements for the 2013-14 year.	Lara Nixon, Intern Principal	05/01/2013 – 05/30/2013	-List of survey questions regarding parent involvement methods, issues, improvements, celebrations -Parent survey	-Have leadership team and principal look over survey and discuss the questioning prior to conducting survey -Create a summary of the data collected
Facilitate an EOY staff meeting/pd session to present data collected all year on the students, parent involvement and EOY survey data.	Lara Nixon, Intern Teachers Grades 3-5 Principal	05/30/2013 – 06/05/2013	-Create spreadsheets that represent the 2012-13 school year parent involvement in various activities -Create a spreadsheet that shows the parent involvement and correlated student data -Create a spreadsheet that compares the previous year’s data -Create two summaries from the staff and parent survey data	-Conduct a staff survey on the effectiveness of the action research on the campus and the delivery of the information throughout the year
Reflection on the action research process, data, methods and activities.	Lara Nixon, Intern Principal	05/30/2013 – 06/05/2013	-Staff survey on the effectiveness of the action research on the campus and the delivery of the information throughout the year (from intern)	-Journal about all aspects of the action research -Focus on leadership methods used & why -Focus on issues and outcomes -Focus on staff and student morale