Action Research Plan

Action Planning Template
Goal: To reverse the role that CTE plays as a backup to Core
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
1.    Meet with principals and counselor to seek approval and answer any questions about the sample size for the one year trial run.	Marcus Mason	April-June ‘12	Time Principal Asst. Principal Counselors Dept. Heads	If I get the approval, good evaluation, if I do not have to take in account the reasons why, see if any possibility for a run the following year or another campus, ask questions and proceed from there.
2.    Seek out teachers that will fit the dynamic of what I am proposing.	Marcus Mason	May-June ‘12	Conference room Checklist of criteria a teacher has to meet	Fit closely to an criteria list
3.    Master schedule	Dean of Instruction	June  ‘12	Counselors Approved class schedules Required classes	Does the new schedule meet the needs of the students and places all essential teachers in correlation with each other.
4.    Randomly pick students from CTE classes that will have to have all the core teachers or at least 3 out of 4.	Counselors Dean of Instruction Marcus Mason	June ‘12	Registration Schedules	Do all of the involved teachers have students from just the specified CTE programs? Will all needs including special needs and accommodations be listed to be met?
5.    Meet with teacher and begin an overhaul, review, and anything deemed necessary to the curriculum to align CTE and Core standards.	All involved teachers Dean of Instruction Dept Heads Testing Coordinator	August ‘12	Curriculum binders, Data or INOVA binders, TEKS, Exam standards, Min. score needed to determine possible success.	Do mostly all stakeholders agree with curriculum, procedures, testing, accommodations, and
6.    Meet with teachers as a whole. Re-explain the roles and what I would like to accomplish and answer any further questions	Marcus Mason	August ‘12	Approved meeting place Projected proposal from teachers of what they may need.	Before school begins check with teachers to make sure all they need is accounted for and that they have what they need to make collaborations.
7.    Begin the school year and have bimonthly meetings and disaggregate data.	Marcus Mason	August ‘12-Taks testing in April ‘13.	Meeting room.	Evaluation of teachers and students. What’s working and what’s not working.  Struggles, road blocks, etc.
8.    Every 3 weeks after the initial 6 weeks, students begin benchmark, 3 week, 6 week, and 9 week testing.  Test as normal or more frequent if permitted.	Testing Coordinator Dean of Instruction District benchmark personnel	Starts in October ’12 and tested at least as normal to more frequently.	Benchmark Assestments Curriculum	Benchmark results Assessments Are the students scoring better, borderline, or worse than their previous data entailed?
9.    Survey students and teachers at the end of each nine weeks regarding teacher growth and increases interactive use Core classroom CTE supplementation.	Marcus Mason	End of every 9 weeks	Google Survey	Survey students and teachers if the class is working, suggestions for improvements, and struggles? Use spreadsheets to group results.
10. Survey teachers about their comfort levels in the role reversal.	Marcus Mason	End of each semester. January of ’13 and June of ’13.	Google Survey	Was it worth the trouble to change the way CTE and Core have been taught? Several different questions concerning the change and spreadsheets would be used to make final report to present to stakeholders.
11. Survey students about their comfort levels and the role they played in the role reversal.	Marcus Mason	End of year after testing May ‘13	Google Survey	Did the instruction being taught seem to be aimed more at your career pathway and relevant to what you planned on doing? Ask varying questions of the overall process, implementation, resources, and recommendations. Use spreadsheet to share data with stakeholders.
12. Examine student data form the current year’s benchmark and determine with stakeholders what impact did the role reversal have.	Marcus Mason Dean of Instruction Dept Heads	May’13	Data from results	Did it work? Spreadsheets, binders, grouping, and everything we normally do with data interpretation.