Action Research Plan

Upon heavy consideration and meeting with my principal, who is also my site supervisor, I have, once again, decided to change my action research topic. The question that I propose is will the state academic performance (STAAR) of our LEP students heavily increase with an increase in parent/teacher bilingual involvement. As I mentioned to my principal, I feel that our 9^th and 10^th graders do not understand the gravity of the STAAR test and the main reason being that the parents do not stress to them the importance of it because, due to the language barrier, they themselves do not know. In addition to that, we also have a problem with parents of our LEP students showing up to activities/workshops we host at school for them. Therefore, instead of asking them to come to us, we will go to them. My principal has authorized me to set up informational workshops/mixers at places where we know a great number of our LEP students and parents attend. 

Action Planning Template
Goal: To increase the state academic performance (STAAR) of our LEP students.
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
Examine the data from the previous years of our LEP students.	Joseph Cantu	2/04/13-3/04/13	Score reports of the STAAR test from the previous year.	Examine the results of the STAAR from the previous year by breaking the data down according to subjects, levels of LEP students, and percentage scores.
Research and understand the reason why LEP students scored so low.	Joseph Cantu	2/18/13-3/18/13	Survey	Distribute a survey to all LEP students and analyze common trends to the answers of the survey.
Conduct research in regards to LEP students and state tests.	Joseph Cantu	3/18/13-4/18/13	Internet to perform research	Literature review from published articles or professionals who have encountered same problem.
Create a plan for parents to achieve goal.	Joseph Cantu Emma Jennings and other ESL/Spanish Teachers	2/05/13	Collaboration	Team consensus with principal approval.
Create a plan for students to achieve goal.	Joseph Cantu Emma Jennings and other ESL/Spanish Teachers	2/05/13	Collaboration	Team consensus with principal approval.
Meet with parents and students to discuss the plan.	Joseph Cantu	2/24/13	Computer, Projector, Audio, Location	Exit Survey for both parents and students.
Track academic progress of LEP students.	Joseph Cantu	2/04/13 – 6/01/13	Academic grades	Examining the data prior research and post research
Examine STAAR results of LEP students.	Joseph Cantu	5/01/13	STAAR Results, if available	Compare and Contrast results from previous year with current year.
Create a plan for parents to achieve goal.	Joseph Cantu Emma Jennings and other ESL/Spanish Teachers	6/01/13-8/01/13	Collaboration	Team consensus with principal approval.
Track academic progress of LEP students.	Joseph Cantu	8/01/13-2/01/13	Academic grades and STAAR results	Examining the data prior research and post research