I have begun working on my Action Research
project. There are some adjustments that I think need to be made since we have
had a tremendous change in our administration over the last couple of months. I
have been working with my Fast Forward action research project, but I think it
might be beginning to evolve into something else. I will continue to work very
closely with the staff and the counselors to make sure that my project stays on
track. The academic teams on campus have begun to gather data from last
years standardized testing and have begun to decide which students are in need
of additional help from this program. There is one major issue that I forsee
happening with my ARP. I am no longer a facilitator of the Fast Forward
program. This will make it difficult to gather data. I have not gotten final
approval from the new administration on this project as well. I have become a
co-coordinator of the AVID program on our campus with the focus on Algebra
tutorials. I was also involved with this program last year. The goal of this
program is to get higher student algebra scores by the end of the school year. If I do make this switch, it will
require the exact same plan I have set in place, with very similar data. I will
just be focusing on a different program, and different students. Hopefully, as things settle down on
campus, I will be able to finalize the project and update my ARP. There are
many things that can be learned that will be beneficial for both the campus and the district.
