Action Plan Update!

My site supervisor and another person involved with administration suggested that my action research topic might be a bit too broad so I narrowed it down to simply “increasing communication between parents and teachers.”  The work on my action research project is a little behind schedule simply because of some of the changes on the junior high campus.  We’ve undergone a pretty large administration change.  We have two brand new assistant principals, a new curriculum director, and a new principal.  Thankfully, the principal is not new to our campus because he was one of our assistant principals last school year.  He is also my site supervisor, so I’m very thankful that I do not have to select another supervisor!  The junior high campus was also closed over the summer due to some renovations to the air conditioning system so our administration was temporarily located to the district administration building.  Although I was still able to meet with my site supervisor over the summer, it was made a little more difficult to schedule times to meet with him because of these various changes.  This school year is settling down and running very smoothly so I anticipate getting more accomplished on my action research project very soon.  I’ve already been looking on online databases and in journals for existing research that will help with my action plan.  I have been working on developing a questionnaire to send out to some of the junior high students’ parents and I hope to be distributing that very soon as well.  I’ve also already begun some informal interviews regarding past communication and I am planning on conducting some formal interviews with stakeholders before the end of this semester.  I still have quite a bit of work to do but I am very optimistic and excited about this project!