Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Action Research Project


Action Planning Template
Goal: Reduce discipline problems and bus referrals on campus
Action Steps(s):
Person(s) Responsible:
Timeline: Start/End
Needed Resources
Evaluation
1. Design an organized dismissal system


Administrators, coworker and Jouleen Dering
August 1-19, 2013
School schedule, school map, number of students and class rosters, and a binder to keep records of action plan details and changes

Administrator approval
2. Review previous discipline records and bus referrals
Administrators and Jouleen Dering
August 1-2, 2013
Discipline records
Discipline records
3. Present new dismissal system to campus staff with detailed expectations, timeline and instructions


Administrators, coworker and Jouleen Dering
August 20, 2013
Prepared presentation including 2012 discipline data, Handouts: created schedule, detailed map of school and dismissal route, expectations

Administrator approval
4. Model and practice new dismissal system
All campus staff led by Jouleen Dering and Administrator
August 20, 2013
Dismissal Cues and map of dismissal route

Teacher Feedback 



5. Inital evaluation of functionality of new dismissal system
Jouleen Dering and Administrator
August 30, 2013
Teacher evalutations, discipline data, and observation data
Administrator and teacher feedback, discipline records
6. Evaluation of dismissal system
Jouleen Dering and Administrator
End of First Six Weeks 



Teacher evalutations, bus driver evaluations, discipline data, and observation data
Administrator and teacher feedback, discipline records
7. Evaluation of dismissal system
Jouleen Dering and Administrator
End of First Semester

Teacher evalutations, bus driver evaluations, discipline data, and observation data
Administrator and teacher feedback, discipline records
8. Evaluation of dismissal system
Jouleen Dering and Administrator
End of year
Teacher evalutations, bus driver evaluations, discipline data, and observation data
Administrator and teacher feedback, discipline records
10. End of year teacher survey
Jouleen Dering
End of year
Survey on Survey Monkey

Analyze data to see teachers opinions of the success of the discipline system
11. Final evaluation meeting
Jouleen Dering and Administrator
End of year
Discipline records
Analyze discipline data and compare to previous school year to understand system’s success
 

  

4 comments:

  1. Jouleen, I think your research topic is so important due to the many safety issues, especially in the bus! I like the increments of your evaluations. They seem very manageable. What are some of the main issues your campus experiences that led you to choose this topic?

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    1. Honestly, the madness! At one point last year a pregnant teacher nearly got knocked over! As I was reading through the 44 topics we are going to be participating in this year, something made me think of our after school process and I knew it was a necessary fix that our administrator didn't seem at all concerned about.

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  2. You have a very good topic. Time and time again we have bus issues. It gets even worse in the summer for summer school. I don't know if every school ISD works the same way but at our school the bus drivers can write up referral and turn them in to the front office. It seems to give them a little more power and some kids that know they can write them up don't give them trouble.

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    1. Yeah our school does the same thing... bus drivers can write kids up and turn them in right away-- but even students that get kicked off the bus, if they don't have someone that can transport them to and from school, we are required to let them ride the bus... totally defeating the fact that they acted up on the bus because there is no consequence for their action. Hopefully by implementing a new release system, students will be calmer when they get on the bus because there is structure and some discipline problems will be disseminated.

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