Action Research Plan

"Parental Involvement"

GOAL:  Increase parental involvement on campus with our special education students, which will also increase their effort on their classroom work and improve state test scores.

OUTCOMES	ACTIVITIES	RESOURCES/ RESEARCH TOOLS NEEDED	RESPONSIBILITY TO ADDRESS ACTIVITIES	TIME LINE	Benchmarks/ ASSESSMENT	Revisions to SIP/PIP based on monitoring and assessments
Establish a Parental Involvement Action Research Team	Compile team consisting of site-mentor, Sp. Ed. teachers and paraprofessionals, diagnosticians, and myself (CM Teacher)	Comments and input about the team from the Administrators and site-supervisor	Self, site-supervisor, Administration Team	August 2012	Bi-monthly meetings	Team staff members subject to change based on Administration decisions and input
Research Team to share a common goal	Share the “Parental Involvement” goal with the research team; discuss ideas and plan of action for the 2012-2013 school year	Comments and input about the team from the Administrators and site-supervisor	Self, site-supervisor, Administration Team	August 2012	Review goal at start of each bi-monthly meeting	Ideas and activities subject to change based on decisions from Research Team
Train paraprofessionals and other staff working directly with parents/guardians	Staff Development class	Staff Development class on “Parental Involvement”	Self, site-supervisor;              J. Mitchell/L. Coble (“Parental Involvement” presenters)	August 2012	Consult with paraprofessionals and staff in bi-monthly meetings	Use additional resources and websites for training
Identify a list of students for the program.	Team will chose a wide variety of students, including students that are mainstream and in the inclusion and resource setting.	List of Special Education and At-Risk  students	Research Team	August 2012-September 2012	Meet with Counselors and diagnosticians to check list	none
Create a call list	Team composes list consisting of student names, parents/guardians, and phone numbers	View Student Information (VSI); Skyward (gradebook)	Self; Sp.Ed. paraprofessionals	August 2012-September 2012	Meet with Research Team to double check lists	none
Call parents	Call and invite parents up to campus; parents invited in 2-3 week group intervals	Call List created by Research Team	Self; Sp.Ed. paraprofessionals	September 2012-end of first semester	Meet with Research Team bi-monthly to make sure all parents have been contacted	See if any parents prefer to be contacted by email or text messages
Track students’ grades and classroom performance	Check  and monitor progress report and report card grades during each marking period	Coordination of Services, progress and  report card grades, CM Analysis Reports	Self	October 2012-January 2013	Meet with Research Team to discuss individual students’ attitudes and morale with school	Compare results with number of parent participants
Chart students classroom grades and 2012 state test results	Chart students grades and scores in a graph	Marking period grades; TAKS & STAAR results for 2012 & 2013	Research Team	January 2013-June 2013	Meet with Research Team to compare TAKS & STAAR results from 2012 to 2013; compare class scores from first of school year to the end	none
Find trends in the results of visited parents’ students vs. non-visited parents’ students	Discuss with the Research Team about the progress or regression students have shown from the plan during the 1st Semester	Charted classroom grades from each marking period and test results	Research Team	February 2013-June 2013	Meet with Research Team to discuss improvements or declines in grades and scores.	Find other possible solutions to help students that have not shown any improvements
Find out what the parents think	Interview participating parents about pros and cons of the program	Participate in annual ARD meetings to interview parents	Self, Diagnosticians, Sp. Ed. Teachers	March 2013-May 2013	Meet with Research Team to review and compare parents/guardians answers	Discuss how we can improve the cons of the program
Evaluate the program	Reflect on what worked; how can we change what didn’t work?	Collected data through the 2012-2013 school year	Research Team	June 2013	Discuss if the program was a success in being beneficial for student achievement	How can we improve?