Action Planning Template
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Goal: In what ways can our
school develop a better communication system with our parents in order to
improve not only the number of parents involved, but the overall impact it
has on student growth compared to last years parent involvement numbers and
school achievement?
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Action
Steps(s):
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Person(s)
Responsible:
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Timeline:
Start/End
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Needed
Resources
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Evaluation
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Collect the numbers of parents involved with our
website last year along with collecting the start results from the 8th
grade students last year in US History.
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Casey Gray and Philip Bates
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August 2013
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2013 Starr Results
2012-2013 Parent Website Numbers
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Create a comparable spreadsheet to evaluate the
scores and parent involvement.
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Create Facebook and Twitter account
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Casey Gray
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August 10, 2013
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Facebook.com
Twitter.com
Edline.com
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Check for ease of access and that all parts of
the sites adhere to district guidelines.
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Submit the facebook and twitter accounts to site
supervisor for approval.
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Casey Gray and Philip Bates
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August 20, 2013
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Computer and account access
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Meet with supervisor to discuss changes or
indentify any additional needs.
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Go live with these 2 accounts
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Casey Gray
Philip Bates
Counselors
PTA - President
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September 1, 2013
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PTA Directory, Counselors email list, Parent
Directory, Connect Ed Phone System, Copier and PA System
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Create a checklist of students and parents at our
school. Sign off when parents and students join.
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Monitor the facebook and twitter accounts –
Accept invitations
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Casey Gray
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All year long
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Computer, Account access
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Make sure there are a steady number of requests.
If not, promote the sites again.
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Post valuable information about school, tests,
benchmarks, tutoring times, Saturday schools and other educational
opportunities
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Casey Gray
Philip Bates
Counselors
Teachers with educational information
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All Year Long
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Test and tutoring schedules.
Educational opportunities schedule.
Extra Curricular activities
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Create Parent surveys to evaluate the
effectiveness of this form of communication. Make sure they are getting the
needed information.
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Evaluate the final numbers of parent involvement
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Casey Gray
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May 2014
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Facebook and Twitter access.
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Compare the numbers to the previous years numbers
on the spreadsheet from first task.
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Collect and evaluate scores from 2014 STAAR Test
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Casey Gray
Philip Bates
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May 2014
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STAAR RESULTS
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Did the scores improve? Compare versus last years scores.
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Create a final results summary
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Casey Gray
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June 2014
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Spread sheets from both years. Parent involvement
numbers and STAAR Scores and Action Research Template
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Compile findings and prepare to share
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Share the findings with our school, district
Social Studies Coordinator and on my educational blog
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Casey Gray
Philip Bates
Milissa Pfiefer
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June 2014
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Final Results Summary and Action Research Template
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What is the final verdict? Did the increase of
mobile communication networks help increase both the numbers of parents
involved and the overall 8th grade history scores?
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Friday, August 2, 2013
This is my stress free get something on paper rough rough draft. I plan on changing this before submitting it into part 2. Please give me honest and critical advice!!!
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Your plan is clear, concise, and easy to read. I was wondering about the 8th grade US History data...it is STAAR data you are using in step 1? Why US History (I guessing that's what you teach)? Is the STAAR data you are analyzing at the end also 8th grade US History? That was really the only thing I was unclear about. Have you considered also using Remind101? Parents can get quick info you send as an email or text without having to log into a program.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the comment!! I am evaluating the US STAAR Results and I will put that in there! I am evaluating that test because A) I teach it and B) it is the hardest 8th grade test. (used to be easiest with TAKS) but now is the hardest. State results were 65% pass rate and that was with a 48% as the standard!! That means close to 150,000 8th grade students failed the History STAAR test and that means they scored below a 48%. I figured I needed to do something about this!!!
DeleteLOL THANKS AGAIN FOR COMMENTING!!
Your plan looks great very detailed and clear. I love that you're using technology to communicate with parents. I am interested to know if more parents will want to participate than the numbers from last year because of convenience??? Great plan!
ReplyDeleteI keep kicking myself for not figuring Twitter out. I'm old enough that it's a bit of work to reframe my brain. Have you ever used Remind101? It's free and easy to use...you might take a look. Good luck with your plan.
ReplyDeleteCasey,
ReplyDeleteYour plan looks really good. I would consider reworking the wondering into a master goal with a sub-goal...just a thought. I read Gen. Schwartzkopf's book in 1994 or 1995, after first Gulf War, and when he went to a new command in Georgia (over 10's or 1,000's of troops) he asked the leaders these three questions before he got there, "What are we as leaders of this post supposed to be doing?" "How are we doing at those things?" "If you could start one thing, stop one thing, and change one thing, what would it be?" I've found this rubric for change oh so very helpful in the past almost-twenty years. What are ya doing now, how do you want to get better, how's it gonna look when we get there? Oh yeah, Twitter really is a good thing...so easy to update a large group of people all at once.
Your goal seems a little unclear. The plan as a whole looks good. Your steps are very clear. I will be following your blog to see how this inquiry goes because my school definitely needs help with parent involvement.
ReplyDeleteTo determine the effectiveness of implementing new forms of mobile communication networks in order to increase parent involvement which should increase lower socioeconomic students’ growth on the 2014 8th Grade US History STAAR test.
DeleteWhat do you think about this? I really appreciate your comments!! Helped me a ton!!!
I think you would be fine doing the project on just one of the communication systems. If you throw in too many variables you won't know which one made a difference.
ReplyDeleteDo you think if I leave it as a general statement it will allow for me to keep it more simple (such as) Yes increased mobile networking worked or not. Not just twitter or facebook?
DeleteWhat do you think. BTW... I love the comments!! make me tweak my project to make it better!! I really appreciate them!!
Here is my new goal:
To determine the effectiveness of implementing new forms of mobile communication networks in order to increase parent involvement which should increase lower socioeconomic students’ growth on the 2014 8th Grade US History STAAR test.
Your plan is very detailed!! This will definitely help when school starts and you have a million things thrown at you at once. I think communicating with technology is really going to help your parent involvement- mainly for convenience! Good luck and cant wait to see what you find out!
ReplyDeleteCasey,
ReplyDeleteWhat you have written is well written and very concise but do a spell check..:) I have to say though that your original question of inquiry seems a bit too general. I was wondering if you should consider looking at how more parental communication effects how students improve including a higher attendance rate, less tardies, and failure rate. Your students might better from more parental involvement over the course of the year but not on the STAAR exam...it would give you a place to look at a smaller group of focus students who did better during the school year but not on the STAAR. Just a rambling of thoughts.. I am sure whatever you do will be successful.
First critical thought: in your "goal" area - the word "years" needs an apostrophe...
ReplyDeleteOverall, I think the plan you have is very clear and can be easily implemented. I hope it gives you an interesting look at parent involvement and its impact on student learning. I also use the app, "Remind 101" for easy parent communication - it sends a text from you that can't be replied to. Comes in handy... Good luck!
Our campus started using Facebook last year. Most of it was great and the line of communication was increased. Of course, there were a few parents upset because they still wanted paper flyers. Your plan looks great and it looks like it will be fun! You may want to consider changing "...parents in order to improve..." to the word increase.
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