Research Action Plan

Action Planning Template
Goal: To increase parent involvement in our schools and ultimately decreasing negative behaviors and increasing academic performance. In the location where I teach the parent involvement is very minimal and I am interested in “turning the tables” in order to do what is best for our students.
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
Introduction of the plan to staff members Data collection on how many students will be involved	Kelli Love	8/20 – 8/31 * cannot begin until the 20th with data collection for school doesn’t start until the 27th	Tracking sheets for classes (to be created prior to) Teacher Time Email	Initial interview Data collection
First 2 weeks of data collection and initial meetings with the students	Kelli Love/ Grade level staff	9/3 – 9/14	Tracking Sheets Teacher Time/ observations  Survey Monkey Email	Teacher interviews Data Collection
Continuous collection of data through class work, participation, parent involvement increase or decrease, and district benchmark data	Kelli Love/  Grade level staff	9/24 – 5/3	Tracking Sheets Teacher Time/ observations Survey Monkey Email	Teacher Interviews Data Collection Benchmark Data
Present Findings and Reports from the research	Kelli Love	June 2013	All Resources used Computer Software and data collected from tracking sheets, observations, and survey monkey	All Data Collected

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

(Harris, Edmonson, and Combs, 2010)