Action Plan Template

Action Planning Template
Goal: To determine how six weeks of mandated summer school will academically impact struggling students in K through 4th grade who are slated for retention and/or functioning below grade level?
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
Search current literature on impact of summer school and year-round school	Allen	4/12/2012	Internet	Relevance to topic
Analyze district data regarding impact of summer school on PK/K readiness (only district data available pertaining to topic)	Allen	4/12/2012	District data	Review data
Conduct round table discussion with teachers and administrators on summer school focus	Allen Administration	April 2012	RtI and tutorial lists, discussions	Participation, discussion, listening, administration feedback
Create guidelines for identification of students mandated for summer school participation	Allen Administration	April 2012	Information from round table discussion, current campus data	Teacher response
Communicate guidelines to classroom teachers	Allen Administration	April 2012	Guidelines, round table discussion, campus data	Teacher response
Analyze data from RtI documentation, tutorial lists, and report card information for pre-identification	Allen McNeeley RtI committee	April 2012	Campus data (RtI, tutorial lists, grade level failures)	Review data, committee and teacher response
Collect BOY, MOY, and EOY assessment data from current school year (math baselines, DRA levels, content grades, etc)	Campus teachers Allen McNeeley RtI committee	May 2012	Data from teacher assessments and information from Zangle	Teacher participation
Collect assessment data from 2010-2011, if available (dependant on enrollment).	Allen RtI committee	May 2012	Data from teacher assessments, At-Risk data, Zangle, and RtI records	Review data and data availability
Organize and analyze data by student and content area (reading and math)	Allen	May 2012	Campus data	Review data
Review current topic research	Allen	April 2012	Internet, literature, periodicals	Relevance to topic
Implement progress monitoring tool for summer school students	Allen Administration	May 2012	Teacher/admin collaboration	Relevance to topic, summer school teacher participation
Collect, organize, and analyze summer school assessment/progress monitoring data	Allen	June-July 2012	Teacher/admin collaboration	Review data
Collect BOY 2012 (math baselines and DRA levels) to compare and contrast summer school data.	Allen Administration Campus teachers	September-October 2012	Teacher/admin collaboration	Review data
Conduct round table discussion with teachers and administrators regarding quantitative evaluation of summer school impact	Allen Administration	July 2012 October 2012	Relevant data	Participation, discussion, listening, administration feedback
Present conclusions	Allen McNeely Administration	November 2012	Relevant data

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An effective educational leader recognizes the value of reflection as a means by which to sort through the rigors of daily work and address critical issues facing the academic progress and success of the student population.  Reflection acts to jump start a path of change by allowing the leader to consider personal beliefs, practices, strengths and weaknesses; campus culture; staff training; and student need within the scope of a targeted area.  The leader then uses this information to begin the process of collaborative efforts to further define the issues at hand.  Action research takes this personalized reflective practice and collaborative discussion and combines it with current research (literature reviews), relevant data collection and analysis, and leads the researchers to form new opinions and platforms that initiate change.  Action research is a highly personalized process motivated by circumstance, environment, ineffectiveness, and sometimes frustration.  While a valuable method of furthering personal professional development, it is a successful approach to encouraging team cohesiveness; developing staff awareness; and creating common goals.  In addition, the process lends itself to fostering leadership traits in the campus staff where members become role models to each other and the students they serve.