Action Research Proposal - Rough Form

Action Planning Template
GOAL:  To create a comprehensive need assessment instrument that meets the state and federal reporting requirements while simplifying the campus assessment and facilitates drafting an annual campus improvement plan.
Action Steps	Person Responsible	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
1. Review State and Federal guidelines for required elements of a comprehensive needs assessment (CNA).	Ronnie Wright	Summer 2012	Texas Educ. Code Sections 11.252 & 11.253 and PL 107-110 (No Child Left Behind) Section 1114	Completion, Peer review, Site Supervisor approval
2. Review other district CNA instruments	Ronnie Wright	Summer 2012	TEA CNA instrument, and that of other 3-A school districts	Completion, Peer review, Site Supervisor approval
3.  Decide on specific areas of school operations that should be included in the CNA and define the parameters of each domain	Ronnie Wright with assistance of Dr. Wayne Guidry	Fall 2012	Reviewed CNA’s of other districts and interviews with building principals and central administrators	Mutual agreement of assessment domains by the central administrators, and principals
4. Establish guidelines for who will be responsible for the evaluation of each domain on each campus	Ronnie Wright with assistance of Dr. Wayne Guidry and principals	Fall 2012	Definitions and expectations of each domain	Completion, Peer review, Site Supervisor approval
4. Establish available data sources for each domain and insure accessibility of data	Ronnie Wright with assistance of Dr. Wayne	Fall 2012	Skyward accesses and comprehensive training	Completion, Peer review, Site Supervisor approval
5.  Establish guiding questions to assist campus committees in reviewing each domain	Ronnie Wright with assistance of Dr. Wayne Guidry, central administration and principals	Fall 2012	Clearly established and defined domains with data sources	Site Supervisor and central administration approval
6.  Create a functional and visually appealing instrument	Ronnie Wright	February 2013	MS Word or Acrobat Writer	Approval of central administration and Site Supervisor
7. Roll out the instrument to campus leadership committees	Ronnie Wright, Dr. Wayne Guidry and building principals	March 2013	Campus CILT trainings at after school meetings.	Participant and Principal satisfaction survey
8. Assist campus CILT teams in completing the needs assessment and campus action plans	Ronnie Wright, CILT Teams, campus principals	April-May 2013	Collected Data, Instruments, CILT Team buy-in	Site Coordinator and Principal satisfaction.  Completed assessments
9. Evaluation of the CNA process	Dr. Wayne Guidry, Central Administration, Building Principals, CILT Team, other participants	May 2013	Evaluation survey	Successful evaluations
10. Instrument adjustment	Ronnie Wright and Dr. Wayne Guidry	Summer 2013	Instrument, Evaluation survey results	Dr. Wayne Guidry and Central administration