My findings

I’ve learned that action research is the focus of looking into ones current practices and are motivated by the quest for improvement through research, collecting and analyzing data, making beneficial changes based on results, and sharing findings with other teachers and administrators. This allows practitioners to internalize and reflect on their practices, formulate and implement action strategies, analyze and evaluate the effects of these practices on all stakeholders, and consider ways of working differently. Teachers and administrators collaboratively work together to help each other in their professional development and are more likely to facilitate change based on the information and knowledge that they generate.

As a Campus Content Instructional Strategist, I will use my action research plan on literacy interventions targeting struggling readers by implementing and evaluating reading programs and improving teacher instruction in the reading classroom to gather information on how interventions improve literacy. What practices are working and not working, for me as a teacher and CCIS, and by sharing my findings with the reading teachers.  I will make my inquiry an ongoing process by continuously gathering and analyzing data to ensure that our instructional practices are improving, not only for my professional growth, for all learners in my school community.