Sunday, December 2, 2012

Week 2:

This week we read in our Dana book , nine areas where research action can take place in a school.
  1. Staff development
  2. Curriculum development
  3. Individual teacher(s)
  4. Individual student(s)
  5. School culture/community
  6. Leadership
  7. Management
  8. School performance
  9. School justice

On the week 1 assignment, I stated that I would be doing my research on a flipped classroom. However, after discussion with my advisor my plans have changed. I am going to look at the effect that our new school wide discipline plan has on office referrals. I think this will be a very interesting plan to complete and analyze . We are a very large elementary campus(close to 900 students) so this data will benefit many people .

Citations:
Dana, N. F. (2009). The Passions that Drive Your Journey: Finding a Wondering. Leading with Passion and Knowledge the Principal as Action Researcher (pp. 25-68). Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Corwin Press, a Joint Publication with the American Association of School Administrators.

2 comments:

  1. Hayley,
    I love discipline and look forward to reading more about your action inquiry. What does your new school wide discipline plan entail? Is it much different than what your school has had in the past?
    Best of luck to you.
    Wendy

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  2. Wendy,

    Sorry for the late response. It has been a crazy week! :) Yes, we just started our CHAMPS program this year. It is a school wide program ,everyone had to follow it this year. Before each grade had their owns rules, per se. If you had a kid you could send them to a partner teacher (we still have this) to do a reflection of why they were there. This program has a uniformed behavior across the school with voice levels and such. It is really easy to implement and the kids have done a great job. I hope you are doing well with your project as well.

    Hayley

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