Choices, Choices, Choices!

After this week’s assignment, I feel like I have made a good choice for my action research topic. My goal is to look at what changes we can make to instruction to address the needs of our Hispanic and African American students. These two sub groups kept our campus from making AYP this year. This is a huge problem considering our school’s demographics. We are 36.1 percent Latino, 27.0 percent African American, 22.3 percent Asian, and 14 percent White. It goes without saying that if we have African American and Hispanic students failing on standardized test, we are not meeting the needs of the majority of our students. As my campus begins making steps to improve this year, I plan to compare this year’s walk-through data to last years. This data will allow me to see what we were doing instructionally last year, compared to this year. I will then be able to use that information to determine if we are using best practices defined by research for diverse learners. I also plan to look at what professional trainings are offered by our campus this year that may, or may not, be helping our teachers change their instruction. In the end, I hope to see that changes are being made compared to last year and that these two sub groups will show gains on this year’s STAAR test. I’m very excited about this project. It will be very empowering and beneficial to me and my campus.