Updated Action Research Plan

Action Planning Template
Goal: The goal of my action research is to discover any correlation between implementing school uniforms and increasing student academic achievement with a corresponding decrease in discipline referrals in my school district.
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
1. Reach out to neighboring school districts that currently utilize school uniforms in high schools and compile information on challenges and struggles within the policy.	Myself, other schools	February 2012-April 2012
2. Identify schools in the district that currently require school uniforms and the dates of implementation.	Myself	February 2012-April 2012	Campus policies for individual campuses within the school district.	Upon gathering all campus information, a list will be compiled of all campus and their policy regarding school uniforms.
3. Review TAKS data for each individual campus utilizing school uniforms within the school district.	Myself	February 2012 –August 2012	TAKS Data for student achievement broken down by campus.	An analysis will be completed illustrating student achievement trends spanning an appropriate number of years based on date of implementation of school uniforms.
4. Review TAKS data for each individual campus not utilizing school uniforms within the school district.	Myself	February 2012 – August 2012	TAKS Data for student achievement broken down by campus.	An analysis will be completed illustrating student achievement trends spanning an appropriate number of years relative to the time period used in the previous step.
5. Evaluate TAKS data from steps 2 and 3 broken down by subpopulations for individual campuses with and without school uniforms.	Myself	February 2012 – September 2012	TAKS data for each campus broken down by subpopulation.	Conclusions drawn from this data will be merged with previous data derived from the campus reports for achievement campus wide.
6. Evaluate student discipline referrals per year for each campus within the specified timeframe involving implementation of school uniforms.	Myself, Site Supervisor, Records Clerk	February 2012 – December 2012	Discipline reports from individual campuses within the specified timeframe.	Data trends will be included in the running report on the research project.
7. Comparative analysis of data from campuses requiring school uniforms with those that do not.  Data will include student academic achievement, TEA campus ratings, and student discipline data.	Myself	August 2012 – December 2012	All gathered data from the Action Research Project.	Final report will analyze trends in student academic success and student discipline within the two comparative groups drawing conclusions from existing correlations.

Action Research Plan

Action Research Plan
Goal: The goal of my action research is to discover any correlation between implementing school uniforms and increasing student academic achievement with a corresponding decrease in discipline referrals in my school district.
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
1. Identify schools in the district that currently require school uniforms and the dates of implementation.	Myself	February 2012-March 2012	Campus policies for individual campuses within the school district.	Upon gathering all campus information, a list will be compiled of all campus and their policy regarding school uniforms.
2. Review TAKS data for each individual campus utilizing school uniforms within the school district.	Myself	February 2012 –August 2012	TAKS Data for student achievement broken down by campus.	An analysis will be completed illustrating student achievement trends spanning an appropriate number of years based on date of implementation of school uniforms.
3. Review TAKS data for each individual campus not utilizing school uniforms within the school district.	Myself	February 2012 – August 2012	TAKS Data for student achievement broken down by campus.	An analysis will be completed illustrating student achievement trends spanning an appropriate number of years relative to the time period used in the previous step.
4. Evaluate TAKS data from steps 2 and 3 broken down by subpopulations for individual campuses with and without school uniforms.	Myself	February 2012 – August 2012	TAKS data for each campus broken down by subpopulation.	Conclusions drawn from this data will be merged with previous data derived from the campus reports for achievement campus wide.
5. Evaluate student discipline referrals per year for each campus within the specified timeframe involving implementation of school uniforms.	Myself, Site Supervisor, Records Clerk	February 2012 – August 2012	Discipline reports from individual campuses within the specified timeframe.	Data trends will be included in the running report on the research project.
6. Comparative analysis of data from campuses requiring school uniforms with those that do not.  Data will include student academic achievement, TEA campus ratings, and student discipline data.	Myself	August 2012 – September 2012	All gathered data from the Action Research Project.	Final report will analyze trends in student academic success and student discipline within the two comparative groups drawing conclusions from existing correlations.

Deeper into the Action...

After spending a good deal of time in the reading about action research, it is beginning to seem more and more applicable in the administrator setting.  The most helpful section of reading was the section that mentioned the nine areas for action research as a principal.  This section provided very solid rationale behind the decision to use action researcrh across each of the nine areas, and provided real world examples of conducting action research in each of those areas.  This provided a valuable and helpful framework of the correct utilization of action research, and I was able to select an action research topic that I believe will yield very enlightening results.