Saturday, April 28, 2012

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


3 comments:

  1. Ronnie,
    Maybe you have already built-in a pilot? If not, I would definitely suggest that you pilot the instrument with at least 15 people responding before you roll it out full force. Sometimes items are unclear in the way they are written or sometimes the software doesn't work properly.
    Just something to consider.
    Dr. Mason

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  2. Ronnie, I think your plan is thorough and very well thought out. I agree with Dr. Mason, but other than that, I would suggest you leave your plan the way it is. I really like that you have included reviewing other district CNA instruments. Have you considered analyzing the CNA instruments that have previously been used in the district and determining why they were not adequate?

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    1. Good point Amy, about reviewing previous instruments. The problem is that they do not exist. The only thing available is the actual CIP, nothing is available on the process, I think because it was haphazardly done each year. Thanks for you comments!

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