Reflection Week Two

This weeks lesson definitely helped me to finalize my action research topic.  Listening to Dr. Chargois, Johnny Briseno and Dr. Kirk Lewis was very informative and helped me with making my final decisions.  I also learned about the nine major areas leaders wonder about and came up with an action research topic for each of those nine major wonderings. 

Benefits of Leaders using Blogs

Educational leaders would benefit by using blogs, because it would be a helpful tool for inquiry and reflection.  Blogging is an excellent tool for communicating with colleagues on certain issues that need attention. Educational leaders can also use blogging as a journal tool.  Just being able to share and receive feed back will help tremendously on solving issues that a leader may face.

Action Research

Action research or administrator inquiry is a systematic approach to revising data, recognizing a problem, implementing a change based on research, and reflecting on the change that has been made and should involve everyone that's affected.  I've learned that action research should cause principals to slow down and take a look at their school if they want to be successful and continue to grow.  Action research can be an equally powerful mechanism for principals professional development and school improvement.  principals that engage in action research help principals surround themselves with other professionals engaged in a process that help them converse about practices in systematic and meaningful ways. Action research is one method for educators to be able to develop a research-based process for examining practice in schools, using additional data sources to foster improvements of student achievement at the school level and across the district. Action research may be conducted by a single person, however, after researching this topic that it's power can be more fully realized when done in collaboration with others.  I've learned that action research  is a process that consist of planning , researching and reflecting. Action research can be done on a regular basis by observing areas that need improvement in your schools .