Developing an Action Research Plan

OUTCOMES	ACTIVITIES	RESOURCES/ RESEARCH TOOLS NEEDED	RESPONSIBILITY TO ADDRESS ACTIVITIES	TIME LINE	Benchmarks/ ASSESSMENT
Creating Lifelong learners	- Conduct research through student grades to determine success.  - Preparing PBL lessons and having students participate in them.  - Create a large amount of PBL lessons to create a variety of things students can participate in.	- Previous classroom data  - Passing rates of previous years.  - Graduation rates of previous years.  - Workforce data	Jason R. Pratt Chrissy Hester Gwen Elder Steve Day Randy Hootan	Fall 2012 - Spring 2013	- Student interviews.  - High passing rates on exams. - High passing rates on projects
Promoting success through education	- Create PBL lessons that are easy enough for the lowest level student in the classroom, but also difficult enough to challenge the high level learner.  - Create PBL lessons that are fun, so that students will want to participate in them.  - Create an atmosphere of success and a culture of success within the PBL model.	- Time to produce these lessons.  - Continuing look at the Manor Tech model.  - Funds to get more COWS put into classrooms so that technology can be an integral part of the PBL process.	Jason R. Pratt Eddie Coulson	Fall 2012 – Spring 2013	Graduation rates. Low discipline referrals from these classrooms.
Accomplishing success in the world of high stakes testing / Moving PBL to EOC classrooms	- Produce some PBL lessons for the AP classroom.   - Have AP students prepare some PBL lessons they think are appropriate  - Move the PBL model to EOC exam classrooms.	- Time is a key resource needed to produce the high amount of lessons to move this concept to other levels.	Jason R. Pratt Debbie Lange Samantha Krinhop April Wilson April Falco	Spring 2013 – Spring 2014	- AP Microeconomics exam. - Benchmark exam