Week Two Actions

This week was very informative and had lots of information. We listened to three remarkable administrators about action research. These scholars were very insightful and had a lot of great information about action research. During our reading this week we learn about nine passions that drive your journey with action research. The nine passions are: staff development, curriculum development, individual teachers, individual students, school cultural/community, leadership, management, school performance, and social justice. This passion made me look over my own thoughts and made me wonder about being a principle. Many times we need to have several action projects going at the same time or constantly looking at several throughout the year. Then after that we talked with our site supervisor about topics for action research. The three topics I took to my supervisor was Pre-K for 3 year olds, cell phone usage, and RTI. The one that we both thought would benefit our school district and staff would be the cell phone usage. As a district we are looking at throwing out our policy on cell phones and letting students use them at school. My supervisor would like to do more research on the advantages and disadvantages of a new policy for our campus. What steps or precautions can we make ensure students can use their smart phone on campus and still have control over their educational needs?