Action Research Plan- Parental Involvment

Action Planning Template
Goal: The Goal is to increase student performance in Reading benchmarks and fluency.  Monitoring will be done through parents’ signatures when they sit down and work with their child at home. It will also be determined if they assist to teacher-parent conferences and to school meetings.
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
Meet with third grade teachers to discuss implementation.	Third grade teachers, principal, and myself	December	Copy of action research rough draft, fluency and homework worksheets, parent conference documentation sheet, and fluency and benchmark charts	Notes and suggestions from the meeting, agreement of the group to implement the plan
Hold a parent meeting afterschool with all third grade parents.	Principal, third grade teachers, and myself	December	Agenda, student current scores as a grade level, homework sheet and fluency sheet where they will sign.	Total number of parents present at the meeting.
Parents will time students for fluency and sign for completion and document words per minute read.	Parents, teachers, and myself	January- March	Fluency worksheet with parent signature and weekly fluency charts	Evaluate data from fluency charts
Homework assignment sheet is where a signature is required after parent checks completion of homework.	Parents, teachers, and myself	January- March	Homework sheet	Charts teachers indicating who signed.
Teacher- Parent conferences with low performing students	Third grade teacher	January - March	Teacher- Parent conference documentation sheet	Evaluate conference with parent/ Did the parent show up or not?
Benchmark results for Reading	Third grade teachers	January- March	Benchmark result chart	Evaluate data from the charts

Format based on Tool 7.1 from Examining What We Do to Improve Our Schools

(Harris, Edmonson, and Combs, 2010)

Lessons Learned - Week 2

This week I thought over and over about good questions that will relate to parental involvement at my school. After going over the few questions I wrote with my campus supervisor, we concluded in working with the following question: What effect does parental involvement have on student scores at El Jardin Elementary? What I learned this week is that action research is a lot of work. I will need to start developing a plan to come up with surveys and data charts to answer the question. From the interview videos I watched this week, I learned that action research needs to be ongoing, never stop because as a teacher or administrator one has to keep learning to keep improving our school. Sharing information and keeping an open communication with your teachers is very important.