I am in the process of finishing the research
phase of the action research project. Most of my research has come from other
local school districts. I have talked to two Curriculum Directors about their strategies
and interventions that proven to be successful at their middle school. From the information that I have gathered, it
seems that most are utilizing after school and before school tutorials for remediation
practices. Both have also been using interactive websites such as Study Island,
iStation, Think Through Math, and Achieve 3000. I plan on meeting with my
action research committee this week to display all the information and determine
if other possible strategies could be used to help increase our school achievement.
Also, I have spent a few
hours informing, training, and implementing Remind101 at our school. I informed
the staff at our last faculty meeting about the service and many supported the idea
that this would be a great tool to increase the home-school connection. I have
since created information letters to send home as well as setup specific group
accounts for teachers to send out message. I look forward in the upcoming weeks
to see what kind of impact this has on increasing parent support at home.
Another situation that
has been helping me with this process is participating in our Campus Improvement
Plan leadership team. Unfortunately, our school feel under the rating “Requires
Improvement” due to our low STAAR results. Being involved with this process has given me
the ability to look at different data and as a school, come up with specific
strategies that could help increase our STAAR results. There is a great amount
of planning and details that go into this process to help our school become
successful.
