Action Research...

I am excited to use action research.  I have avoided graduate school for a long time because of traditional research papers.  Reading about action research has enlightened me to how practical it can be to the current position I hold on my campus and moving into an administrative role in the future.  The idea that I should look at action research as simply a "nagging question" has helped me to understand how I will come up with my action research topic (Dana, 2009).  I am looking forward to working on my action research using literature reviews, my current leadership team and other PLCs on my campus.  I also thought that the idea of scheduling a time each week to reflect was key.  I am as busy as the next person with work and family and could probably be described as an over-scheduler, however, this was a suggestion that really hit home.   I have been in the RtI/ESL coordinator role for four years and there are so many questions that I can think of that might really help our students.  I am looking forward to understanding into why ELL students that start in our district in kindergarten are still going to high school needing ESL services and what actions can be implemented to change this.