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Action Planning Template
Goal:
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
Setting up in school pullouts for remediation sessions	Classroom teachers as facilitators and Assistant Principals as monitors	October 23, 2012 through December 2012	CSCOPE curriculum Exemplar activities Professional Development Vital self initiated resources	Formal evaluations at the end of each week Eduphoria Aware Platform
Setting up Saturday School remediation schedule	Classroom teachers as facilitators and Assistant Principals as monitors	September 22, 2012 through May 2013	CSCOPE curriculum Vital self initiated resources	Diagnostic test Bench mark exams
Setting up after school tutorial Sessions to catch up on work missed from in school pullouts for remediation	Classroom teachers	October 23, 2012 through December 2012	CSCOPE curriculum Vital self initiated resources	Diagnostic test Bench mark exams
Setting up morning tutorials sessions to catch up on missed work from in school pullouts	Classroom teachers	October 23, 2012 through December 2012	CSCOPE curriculum Vital self initiated resources	Diagnostic test Bench mark exams

School districts now are data driven and action research has proven to be a powerful tool to receive quantitative data.  New teachers are being taught how to conduct research so that they may impact student success.  Teachers are now getting data weekly by teaching objectives, testing objectives taught, and assessing formally at the end of the week.

Action research and how I may be able to use it

Action research is a tool that can be used in our everyday lives to help to help people like leaders or persons in some type of administrative role define problems that have continuously occurred.  It helps the administrator to analyze what is happening both negatively and positively on their campus.  Defining the issue is one thing but being able to do something about it is an option that action research allows.  It allows for avenues to discuss things that haven't worked or things that haven't been tried and to recognize what is beneficial to all stakeholders and what needs to remain.  Once these questions have arisen and been answered there will be a process of implementation. During implementation results are recorded and analyzed and the leader will discover that you have just come up with possible solutions to your problems all through the process of action research.

Analysis of how educational leaders might use blogs

Blogs permit you to reflect on thoughts and actions and even sometimes voice your opinion. Educational leaders could profit from using blogs in a variety of ways. First of all blogs supply an excellent outlet for discussion and sharing ideas with others. Many times as an educational leader you simply need to network and share thoughts and ideas with someone of the same competence. Secondly, blogs would benefit educational leaders by providing a resource for even more experiences, actions, and reflections. Blogs allow educational leaders to attack broad statewide issues. Blogs would create an instant ongoing discussion board relating to every topic in education.