New Action Research Plan Template

I ran into some trouble this past week when doing the  Week 3 Assignment.  I scheduled a meeting with my campus mentor early in the week on a Tuesday after school.  He had to reschedule until Friday.  However, when Friday arrived, it was the end of the 3 weeks, grades were due, and inventory was due (he is in charge of inventory), and we rescheduled our meeting for Monday.  My IA granted my extension.  However, when Monday aftrnoon arrived, my mentor was still unable to meet with me due to being involved in an interview process for another position on the campus.  I contacted my district math specialist for advice and she suggested my topic.   Another AP on campus gave me a few strategies.  Below is the result of this interface and the preparation I had made prior to this discussion.  I would appreciate any input from my readers.

School Vision:  "It is the vision of an ideal that inspires people and organizations to make the extraordinary effort and commitment necessary to achieve excellence.”

Goal:  To evaluate the effectiveness of the STAAR Remediation Program offered by Pasadena Memorial High School to those students who failed any STAAR test in their freshman year.

OUTCOMES	ACTIVITIES	RESOURCES/ RESEARCH TOOLS NEEDED	RESPONSIBILITY TO ADDRESS ACTIVITIES	TIME LINE	BENCHMARKS/ASSESSMENT	REVISIONS TO SIP/PIP BASED ON MONITORING AND ASSESSMENTS
Curriculum costs justified?	Determine the district costs of producing the curriculum for each session of remediation and from that determine the cost for our campus.	District Core Curriculum Specialists data to include hours logged by specialists and costs of materials for curriculum development.	Mr. Lee, 10th grade AP and Ms. Peasley, 10th grade counselor at our campus will provide data.	Data from summer session is already available; data from winter session will be available after winter break.  Data from spring will be available early summer 2013.	Data collected on scores of students who failed the original core subject STAAR tests who were freshmen students at Pasadena Memorial High School.
Transportation costs justified?	Determine the bus costs for students attending after school tutorials.	District bus costs records for those charges made to our campus.	Mr. Lee and Ms. Peasley will get that data for me, or I will get it directly from the Asst. Sup of Transportation.	Data from summer session is already available; data from winter session will be available after winter break.  Data from spring will be available early summer 2013.	Data collected on scores of students who failed the original core subject STAAR tests who were freshmen students at Pasadena Memorial High School.  What is a justifiable cost?
Were the costs of paying  professional teachers for teaching the remediation courses justified?  What was the cost of internet instruction vs face to face instruction?  What was the cost of PLATO instruction?	Determine the number of teachers hours logged in on the time charts and submitted to the principal’s secretary.	Time charts used by teachers or data from Payroll as provided by principal’s secretary	Kim Mattingly, Principal’s secretary or Mr. Lee and Ms. Peasley	Data from summer session is already available; data from winter session will be available after winter break.  Data from spring will be available early summer 2013.	Data collected on scores of students who failed the original core subject STAAR tests who were freshmen students at Pasadena Memorial High School.
What are other factors that should be taken into account to determine the effectiveness of the program?	Determine what these factors were, their costs in time and materials.	TBD	Mr. Lee and Mrs. Peasley, participating core subject teachers	Data from summer session is already available; data from winter session will be available after winter break.  Data from spring will be available early summer 2013.	Data collected on scores of students who failed the original core subject STAAR tests who were freshmen students at Pasadena Memorial High School.
What changes should be made to next year’s program?	TBD	TBD	Mr. Lee and Mrs. Peasley, participating core subject teachers. Also include survey results from participating students and parents of those students.	Create survey to distribute to students who pass each session and to their parent; consider giving to all students, including those who fail again.	Data collected on scores of students who failed the original core subject STAAR tests who were freshmen students at Pasadena Memorial High School.