EDLD 5399 Week Three Part 1

Concerns – Review your participation in improvement initiatives or efforts to engage in action research, and list at least three concerns that you have identified from these experiences – a concern may be any matter that engages your attention or interest.


1. Lack of personnel to address our Hispanic sub-population growth.

2. Lack of a true vertical alignment from elementary to secondary (move from TAKS to STAAR testing).

3. Concerns about technology being up to date to address relevant issues.

Affirmations - Review your participation in improvement initiatives or efforts to engage in action research, and affirm or identify at least 3 actions that must be sustained and supported to achieve the District/Campus improvement initiatives.

1. Continue to support district and campus goals to add more personnel that will help us address our English Language Learners.

2. Continue to support district and campus goals that reflect that improvement plans are connected on the district and campus level.

3. Continue to monitor district and campus data with other principals to address our alignment issues for testing.

Recommendations - Review your participation in improvement initiatives or efforts to engage in action research and describe at least 3 recommendations you would make regarding the District/Campus Improvement plans or action research plans.

1. Align the district and campus improvement plans to the district and campus needs assessment. Allow data from the needs assessment to drive what we do for improvement plans.

2. Provide on-going professional development for our teachers to have up to date training with technology. This will allow more actively engagement and interactions between teachers and students.

3. Attend job fairs that will help us address the need for our growing sub-population. We want each campus personnel to be more diverse.

Evaluate - Review your participation in improvement initiatives or efforts to engage in action research and identify at least 3 strategies for evaluating the improvement plans or recommendations.

1. Conduct meetings with the curriculum department and campus principals about the progress of curriculum based assessments and standardized tests. Analyze results with our administrative team.

2. Evaluate with our technology department and teachers on the implementation of technology in the classroom.

3. Evaluate our methods of recruiting personnel to meet our diverse student population. I attend job fair with our human resource department to help address our district needs.