Parent Involvement Action Plan

In previous years our campus parent involvement has not been successful. I believe that this may impact our student success. I plan to implement a plan that will encourage parents to be more actively involved. Data, findings and recommendations resulting from this plan will be shared with coworkers and administrators.

I will prepare a report that results all the phases mentioned above, including all the data and findings from each step of the way to all the parties involved may benefit from this information.

As I share this data and information, the people informed of my findings will always be welcome to add their views about the results and even participate actively in it since this will all be for the benefit of the school as a whole. My administrative team may of course advice me or even redirect me if necessary in this process.

I will make sure that I share all my findings, including my rationale to decide on the importance of my efforts, data, conclusions, recommendations and so on.

My final report will be made available to faculty, staff, and administrators, parents and any other relevant parties.

Goal: The purpose of this research is to determine how can we motivate parents to become more involved with our school in order to help benefit our students and make them successful?
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
Create a survey to see how many parents would volunteer on their child’s school campus.	Upon approval from the Principal, Donna Green will create the parent survey. Claudia Zarate will translate the parent survey in Spanish.	Sept. 1, 2013- Oct. 1, 2013	Parent surveys will be sent home with students.	Any surveys not returned will be mailed another survey.
Hold a parent meeting to inform parents of the findings and answer any questions.	Administrative Staff, Any teachers interested, Spanish translator	Oct. 1-15, 2013	Data of interested parents, information of ways parents can volunteer	Sign up sheet of interested parents
Send home information to parents that signed up to volunteer. Do background checks	School secretary, Spanish translator, District parent liason	Oct. 15-31, 2013	Personal information, Criminal background checks of parent volunteers	Inform parents of cleared background checks and approval to volunteer
Set up schedule for parents to volunteer	Counselor	November 2013-May 2013	Calendar chart	No evaluation needed
Chart data of improvement of student performance of all parent volunteers	Donna Green All teachers of students involved	November 2013-May 2013	Electronic and hard copy of findings.	Report of findings

Week 2: Action Research

Action research is going to be a great tool. Many campuses will be able to drive instruction and in turn make students more successful. I know that I plan to use this tool quite often. There are many concepts that can be implemented within a action research plan. Being able to share plans will also help colleagues in issues that you share and have in common. I listened to several interviews about action research that will also help when I become an administrator. Good action research will produce some successful results that helps to drive instruction.

Educational Leaders

I believe that blogs are a very resourceful tool for educators. It allows us to retrieve information from our peers and be able to share information. Having new ideas often helps to enhance your teaching strategies.

Action Research

Action research is going to be a wonderful tool to use. Action research allows administrators to be able to implements a process that will engage the staff in a practice that will create engagement of teachers,parents, students and any other personnel. Being able to go through the action research process allows its participants to communicate with its peers on matters of mutual concern. It gives you several options on the topics that are being discussed. You can share ideas, strategies, and concepts all while learning different ways from others. Action research allows administrators the chance to surround themselves with staff that can have meaning conversations about a topic and be able to put into practice some of the strategies that have been discussed. It allows one to take on the role as a facilitator of some engaging conversations. This process can bring about some ways of implementing best practices by examining the best case scenarios in classrooms. Action research allows administrators to become role models as their campus discovers something that will allow them to take ownership of what it being taught, which in turn will allow the teachers to do the same thing in the classrooms and sets in motion the same process as students begin to take ownership for their own role in their own learning. I believe that I am going to implement actions research through PLCs most often. Professional Learning Communities (PLC) are a great way for administrators and staff to come together to explore avenues in which a campus can decide the best practices for student success.