Lourdes Mueller's Research Action Plan

Action Research Plan
Goal:  To determine if developing an assessment tool for Pre-K students will target weaknesses in instruction and curriculum.
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
Survey kindergarten teachers in district to align Pre-K assessment to Kindergarten expectations	Principal Lourdes Mueller	April 2013	Survey Monkey	Use survey questions to gain insight on the preferred expectations of teachers for incoming kindergarteners
Develop an Evaluation tool for PK students	Principal Lourdes Mueller	June 2013-August 2013	Research assessment tools used by other districts for Pre-K	Share with steering committee for feedback
Give teachers assessment tool for the year and relay expectations for students based on Teacher results from survey monkey	Tonya Garza Lourdes Mueller	August 2013	Assessment tool, Results of survey monkey	Feedback from teachers
Train teachers on components of Balanced Literacy to ensure expectations for student evaluation	Consultant, Andrea Torres	August 2013	Balanced Literacy components	Meeting Agenda, teacher evaluation of training .
Analyze Data from 1st  9 weeks evaluations	Tonya Garza, Lourdes Mueller Steering committee members	October 2013	All Data Collected	This data will provide a starting point for study of this research project.
Analyze Data from 2nd 9 weeks evaluations and compare to district expectations.	Lourdes Mueller Tonya Garza Steering Committee	January 2014	District Pre-k checklist, Pre-k evaluation results	Look at data and compare to 1st  9 weeks to determine areas of weakness, if any and align instruction to meet expectations.
Meet with site supervisor and discuss research findings thus far. Determine if changes to instruction need to be made.	Tonya Garza Lourdes Mueller	January 2014	All Data Collected	Look at data to determine if there is a pattern in results which point to weaknesses in instruction. Get feedback from site supervisor.
Analyze Data from 3rd 9 weeks evaluations and compare to district expectations.	Lourdes Mueller Tonya Garza Steering Committee	March 2014	District Pre-k checklist, Pre-k evaluation results	Look at data and compare to 1st and 2nd 9 weeks data to determine areas of weakness, if any and align instruction to meet expectations.
Compare data from two participant groups and determine if there is any difference in student achievement between participants.	Lourdes Mueller Tonya Garza Steering Committee	March 2014	All Data collected	Report results to site supervisor and steering committee
Analyze Data from 4th  9 weeks, and compare to previous 9 weeks evaluations.	Lourdes Mueller Tonya Garza Steering Committee	June 2014	District Pre-k checklist, Pre-k evaluation results	Look at data and compare all 9 weeks data to determine areas of weakness, if any and also look at data as it relates to participants and determine if there are differences in student achievement among participants.
Determine results of research action plan. Share with site supervisor and SBMT, PK steering committee	Lourdes Mueller Tonya Garza	June 2014	Data from evaluations	Determine if evaluation tool identified weaknesses in instruction and curriculum