Things have changed since the last revision of my Action Research Plan.  I changed positions within my school and we did not meet AYP.  This created a lot of changes within our school.

Updated Action Plan for Julie Nicholson EA 1300 December 8, 2012
Goal/Outcome: In what way will implementing common assessments over the spring semester of the 2012-2013 School Year help increase 2nd grade student performance on the End of Year MAP test?   Below is the process for monitoring the achievement of my goals and objectives
Activities designed to achieve the objectives:	Persons responsible for implementation	Timeline for completion or implementation	Resources and research tools needed	Assessment instrument to evaluate the effectiveness
Meet with the principal to decide on my research project	Sarika Pride, principal   Julie Nicholson	April 2012	List of topics I created for the nine passions assignment	I chose student performance
Decide on the ten core skills needed for all second graders to know by the end of the year to be successful in third grade math	Administrators   Second Grade Team   Julie Nicholson	Early August at Team Leader/Curriculum Team Retreat	AMC anywhere program reports   EOY MAP data from 1st grade   Teacher input	A complete list of the ten skills that second grade math students need to master for continued success in third grade math curriculum
Create 2nd grade common math assessments that will determine mastery of selected core math skills	Second grade teachers   Julie Nicholson, 2nd Grade Team Leader and Curriculum Specialist	December 2012 - May 2013	Exam View   EnVision curriculum   2nd grade math TEKS	The finished and agreed upon assessments
After each assessment re-evaluate our tactics for working with the students and discuss what worked, what did not	Second grade team   Julie Nicholson   Sarika Pride, principal	December February April   (about every 6 weeks)	Assessments   Assessments results	Compile the data in a graph to assess teacher effectiveness and accountability Anecdotal notes
Use data to determine next steps for training, if necessary, and organize instructional groups based on data	Sarika Pride, Principal   Victoria Cole, Instructional Specialist   Julie Nicholson, Curriculum	Ongoing throughout the spring semester	Common assessment results   Master schedule	Plans from the data meetings   Keep a journal of our data meetings
Provide intervention to the students	Second grade teachers Intervention specialists Title I tutors	December 2012 – May 2013		Walk-throughs by the principal during intervention   Anecdotal notes
Repeat the common assessments throughout the year	Second grade team   Julie Nicholson, curriculum	Every 6 weeks	Common Assessments	Keeping MAP RIT and PES Target Scores in mind   Common Assessment Scores
Get teacher feedback from how they felt the year went and how they view the success of core skill identification and student mastery of the core skills	Second grade team   Julie Nicholson, curriculum	End of May – First of June 2013	Second grade Teachers   Title I tutors	Teacher Interviews   Teacher Reflections or another survey
Share the results	Second grade team   Julie Nicholson, Curriculum	Week of Inservice for the 2013 year	All data collected and compiled with a power point presentation

EDAD 5397 Web Conference week 3 Review

OK, I'm back.  I have had a hard time just figuring out how to get to this place to actually post anything.  I have tried it off and on for the last four months.  LOL.  I totally forgot that I used my Lamar email so I was getting nowhere.  I have had several classes since my last post.  I thoroughly enjoyed all of them.  This class, 5397, is kicking my you know what because I have been a procrastinator like Dr. Borel said.  So thank the Lord they had the foresight to create this course to force students like myself to get caught up.  I was telling my husband this morning that even though I have created a monster for myself by putting all these embedded logs off or not staying up with my internship, it would have been much worse if I wasn't in this course come summer 2013!  I would tell myself on the week between classes to get caught up and then something would always happen or the week would just fly by and I had gotten none of that work completed.  Thank goodness I did keep notes, I just haven't put it into any correct forms.  That will be another fun time trying to get all the forms accessed and filled out properly.  I was planning to get caught up over the Christmas break, but now I can enjoy my holiday with my family and forget about school for a little while.  :)  Thank you, Dr. Jenkins & the Lamar Education Department, for keeping it real and realizing that we need these little organizational pushes to keep us on the path to success!