Action Research Plan

School Vision: Creating common planning for teachers to raise student achievement and create a strong team of teachers that are willing to work together and collaborate with each other.

Goal: Raising student achievement and creating teamwork among content area teachers to improve student scores and new ways of teaching certain topics/concepts.

Outcomes	Activities	Resources/ Research Tools Needed	Responsibility To address Activities	Timeline	Benchmarks/ Assessment	Revisions to SIP/PIP based on monitoring and assessments
To see what the result of having a common planning period will have on student achievement.	Have teachers work in their common content area and figure out what works and what does not.	The same planning period and copies of student work before and after the common planning period.	Teachers need to be able to meet at the same time and discuss what is going on in the classrooms (what is working and what is not.)	Teachers should start the year off in their common planning period.	The district and campus assessments from the two different years to see if common planning has helped.	If there is no change or a decrease in the student scores, look at if the teachers are really meeting and staying true to what is being said in the meetings.
To see what the result of having common planning period will have on the teachers and their lessons.	Have teachers try new ways of teaching lessons and be on the same page at the same time (teaching the same topic/ concept at the same time).	Student surveys or samples of work if that student has been moved from one teacher to another teaching the same subject.	Teachers being able to be open to trying new activities and being able to listen to what others are saying.	Comparing two years of research: one without common planning and one with common planning to see how the students compare.	The district and campus assessments that come from a student that has been moved from one teacher to another teaching the same subject.	See if the teachers are really on the same page and if not, adjust accordingly.