As I sit back to reflect on what I have learned over the past 5 weeks in my research class at Lamar University I noticed that I had no idea that we had been using action plans at my school all along. I reflected on things that we do at our campus and realized that there are some areas we can make an action research plan for and other areas that we might want to create one. I feel like through watch the videos a couple of weeks back I was able to get a better grasp of what other schools do as action research plans. It also opens my eyes to different ways to go about creating and implementing my plan at my school. The discussions board has really helped me to be able to share my thoughts with others and get feedback to how to make my plan better. Also I am able to see what other people are doing with their plans. One thing I liked about the discussion board was the week that we shared issues we would have with the action research plan which gave me the chance to see some ideas for how to make my plan go smother. Action research plan has many benefits such as theories and knowledge are generated from research grounded in the realities of educational practice, practitioners become collaborators in educational research by investigating their own problems, and practitioners play a part in the research process, which makes them more likely to facilitate change based on the knowledge they generate (Carr and Kemmis,1986). I understood more in the end how important using data is when it comes to creating your plan and data can comes from many different sources. Rather than someone else telling me what I should be doing to my teachers and to my students, through engagement in inquiry I’m learning with my teachers and with my students in my building by closely taking a really hard look at what I’m already doing and what I need to do to change it (Bracewell,2008). I learned that action research plan is way different than the research that we all had to do throughout high school and college. Even though making the blog wasn’t one of the things that I was looking forward to, but in the end it has given me another communication with others in my class. Also I learned how much a blog can help principals communicate with other principals in the district and around the country. It helps open up that line of communication with others to get help or ideas on a research action plan. The one thing that I believe is going to be tough for me know matter what I learn from class is finding time. Between class duties, football games, football practice, and family I am will be pulled in different directions. The blog, face book, discussion boards and web conferences I feel like I will be able to make it through all the months ahead. Another thing that I learned that you need to get the students involved, teachers involved, staff development, and community involved with your research plan.  An action research plan is utilized as a professional development vehicle for administrators and teachers in an evening inquiry celebration is planned where in colleagues gather to share their work (Dana, 2009, 141). Over all I have learned about all the things that I need in order to create a successful and productive action research plan. You have to create a plan that involves the entire school not just a select few. I have to have passion to make my school better in all the areas. Through a strong research plan I will be able to help take issues that we have on the campus and create a plan of attach to make it no longer a issues.

Jimmy Beasley Action Research Plan Goal: To be able to see through research what are some areas we can improve on in order to increase student’s grades and decrease student behavior. Look at activities that we can implement into our program in order to help at risk students of failing. Also look at other disciplinary punishment that we can implement in order to reduce DSP students. Action Steps(s): Person(s) Responsible: Timeline: Start/End Needed Resources Evaluation   Determine Population:   Select Students from both Non – athletes and athletes. Look at grades and behavior from both groups to determine population for research plan. I have to also select a group of students that need help in classroom management.   Jimmy Beasley   Assistant Principals   Counselors   August 2013 – September 2013   Grade Reports   Disciplinary Reports   Schedules   Test Results from 2012 – 2013   Gather the list from the counselor in order to narrow down list to the numbers we would like to research.   Gather Baseline Data:   Take the list provided from counselors to narrow down to about 30 students per group. Use the data provided by the Assistant Principal on discipline in order to look at the correlation between grades and behavior. I will be sitting down with all the principals in a meeting to see what the top 5 to 10 classroom or school issues are at Ross Sterling.   Jimmy Beasley   Assistant Principals   Counselors   September 2013 – October 2013   Spreadsheet   Progress Reports   Disciplinary Reports for the first 6 weeks of School.   Create a spreadsheet in for both groups to be able to keep up with their grades and discipline for the semester.       Gain a Deeper Understanding:   Take data from the first two progress reports and disciplinary reports in order to dig deeper into why some of the students have trouble in class. Look at classes to see if they are being placed in the right setting. Also make visit or visit through SKYPE with a Title 1 IB school in order to see what they have done to resolve any issues.   Jimmy Beasley       September 2013 – October 2013     Progress Reports   SKYPE   Spreadsheet     Collect the data that receive from my visit from the other campus. Also enter data into my spreadsheet.   Self-Reflection:   Attend training over different ways to discipline besides DSP. Also attend some meetings on how to keep kids on task even when rigor goes up.   Jimmy Beasley   Site Supervisor   October 2013     Workshop   Journal   Write a reflection over what I learned in my workshop. Also share the information with site supervisor for what I learned.   Look at Patterns between both groups:   Determine what helps students accomplish the goal of passing all classes. Look to also see what the reasons are behind students misbehaving in class.   Jimmy Beasley   Instructional Coaches   Assistant Principals     October 2013 – November 2013     Survey for Teachers and Students   Spreadsheet   List all the ways that some of the students use in order to pass. Also list the top reason why some of them misbehave in class.   Determine the Next Direction:   Work with site supervisor to look at what the next direction is to go in this plan. Look at the ways that other schools have been successful in improving grades and lowering discipline issues. Create a teacher committee from both core and elective areas. The teacher committee will be looking at ways to discipline some kids that are not classroom disruption, but just miss detentions sometimes.   Jimmy Beasley   Site Supervisor   Instructional Coaches   Teacher Committee   October 2013 – November 2013     Nine weeks Report Card   Disciplinary Reports   Reports from School Visits   Create a plan of action using all the information and data collected over the last few months.   Take Action:   Implement new disciplinary ideas to help reduce DSP numbers and behavior issues in class. Also implement ways help those students struggling in class to succeed.   Jimmy Beasley   Teachers   Counselors   Assistant Principals   Late October 2013 – December 2013     Action Plan for Discipline and Grades   Implement new plan of action. Also document through grade and discipline checks the progress of the new plan.   Sustaining Improvement   Continue to evaluate the new plan to see if any changes need to be made to make it successful for all students. Also continue to monitor grades and discipline. Also survey everyone again in December.   Jimmy Beasley   Teachers   Site Supervisor   November 2013 – December 2013.   Survey for teachers, principals, and students.   Grade Reports   Disciplinary Reports   Evaluate surveys given to see if any changes need to be made. Also evaluate what some of the areas that everyone agree are working.   Present Findings:   Write up summary of the action research plan of my final findings and present it to my site supervisor in the weekly principal meeting.     Jimmy Beasley   Site Supervisor   Principal Staff   December 2013   Summary of Research Action Plan   Visit with principals in their meeting to discuss if any further actions need to be taken.

Jimmy Beasley Action Research Plan
Goal: To be able to see through research what are some areas we can improve on in order to increase student’s grades and decrease student behavior. Look at activities that we can implement into our program in order to help at risk students of failing. Also look at other disciplinary punishment that we can implement in order to reduce DSP students.
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
Determine Population:   Select Students from both Non – athletes and athletes. Look at grades and behavior from both groups to determine population for research plan.	Jimmy Beasley   Assistant Principals   Counselors	August 2013 – September 2013	Grade Reports   Disciplinary Reports   Schedules   Test Results from 2012 – 2013	Gather the list from the counselor in order to narrow down list to the numbers we would like to research.
Gather Baseline Data:   Take the list provided from counselors to narrow down to about 30 students per group. Use the data provided by the Assistant Principal on discipline in order to look at the correlation between grades and behavior.	Jimmy Beasley   Assistant Principals   Counselors	September 2013 – October 2013	Spreadsheet   Progress Reports   Disciplinary Reports for the first 6 weeks of School.	Create a spreadsheet in for both groups to be able to keep up with their grades and discipline for the semester.
Gain a Deeper Understanding:   Take data from the first two progress reports and disciplinary reports in order to dig deeper into why some of the students have trouble in class. Look at classes to see if they are being placed in the right setting. Also make visit or visit through SKYPE with a Title 1 IB school in order to see what they have done to resolve any issues.	Jimmy Beasley	September 2013 – October 2013	Progress Reports   SKYPE   Spreadsheet	Collect the data that receive from my visit from the other campus. Also enter data into my spreadsheet.
Self-Reflection:   Attend training over different ways to discipline besides DSP. Also attend some meetings on how to keep kids on task even when rigor goes up.	Jimmy Beasley   Site Supervisor	October 2013	Workshop   Journal	Write a reflection over what I learned in my workshop. Also share the information with site supervisor for what I learned.
Look at Patterns between both groups:   Determine what helps students accomplish the goal of passing all classes. Look to also see what the reasons are behind students misbehaving in class.	Jimmy Beasley   Instructional Coaches   Assistant Principals	October 2013 – November 2013	Survey for Teachers and Students   Spreadsheet	List all the ways that some of the students use in order to pass. Also list the top reason why some of them misbehave in class.
Determine the Next Direction:   Work with site supervisor to look at what the next direction is to go in this plan. Look at the ways that other schools have been successful in improving grades and lowering discipline issues. Create a teacher committee from both core and elective areas.	Jimmy Beasley   Site Supervisor   Instructional Coaches   Teacher Committee	October 2013 – November 2013	Nine weeks Report Card   Disciplinary Reports   Reports from School Visits	Create a plan of action using all the information and data collected over the last few months.
Take Action:   Implement new disciplinary ideas to help reduce DSP numbers and behavior issues in class. Also implement ways help those students struggling in class to succeed.	Jimmy Beasley   Teachers   Counselors   Assistant Principals	Late October 2013 – December 2013	Action Plan for Discipline and Grades	Implement new plan of action. Also document through grade and discipline checks the progress of the new plan.
Sustaining Improvement   Continue to evaluate the new plan to see if any changes need to be made to make it successful for all students. Also continue to monitor grades and discipline. Also survey everyone again in December.	Jimmy Beasley   Teachers   Site Supervisor	November 2013 – December 2013.	Survey for teachers, principals, and students.   Grade Reports   Disciplinary Reports	Evaluate surveys given to see if any changes need to be made. Also evaluate what some of the areas that everyone agree are working.
Present Findings:   Write up summary of the action research plan of my final findings and present it to my site supervisor in the weekly principal meeting.	Jimmy Beasley   Site Supervisor   Principal Staff	December 2013	Summary of Research Action Plan	Visit with principals in their meeting to discuss if any further actions need to be taken.