Action Research Plan

GOALS	ACTIVITIES	RESOURCES	TIMELINE	PERSON RESPONSIBLE	MONITOR	ASSESSMENT
Determine on the average how many days each teacher in our district is absent	Interview our business manager and obtain number of absences per teacher	Business manager and teacher attendance records	August 2010	Jack Parker	Compile a chart by teacher and campus of days missed for sick, personal, and school leave.	ongoing
Review TAKS pass / fail rate for each teacher	Document the pass / fail rate for each teachers students on the TAKS test	TAKS test data	September 2010	Jack Parker	Compile a chart of each teacher’s pass / fail rate on the TAKS test	ongoing
Compare each teacher’s absenteeism rate to their pass fail rate on TAKS	Look at hard data gathered on the two previous studies and combine data	Absenteeism and TAKS data previously obtained	September 2010	Jack Parker	Compile the data from the two previous studies and determine if teacher absenteeism and pass / fail rate are correlated	Hard data from chart will determine if teacher absenteeism is a factor on student performance.
Determine what activities teachers leave for substitutes when they are going to be on a planned absence	Survey teachers on activities they leave for students when they are on a planned absence	Survey	October 2010	Jack Parker	Compile results from survey and determine how many of the activities us Higher Order Thinking	ongoing
Determine what activities teachers leave for substitutes when they are going to be on a non planned absence	Survey teachers on activities they leave for students when they are on a non planned absence	Survey	October 2010	Jack Parker	Compile results from survey and determine how many of the activities us Higher Order Thinking	ongoing
Determine is teacher preparedness when absent has an effect on student performance	Compile all data in an easy to read format	All data collected	November 2010	Jack Parker	Use data to produce an easy to read report on all data collected in this project	Data report
Determine how much substitute teachers get paid per day	Interview business manager to determine sub pay	Business manager and sub pay records	September 2010	Jack Parker	Use data in later part of study	ongoing
Determine the average teacher salary for each campus and the district	Get salary records from the business managers office	Payroll records	September 2010	Jack Parker	Compile a study of sub pay and average teacher pay per campus and district wide	ongoing
Determine how much the district spends on substitute teachers each school year per campus	Get this figure from the business office and match this data with data from the study	Business office	October 2010	Jack Parker	Use all data collected thus far to compile a visual on how much subs cost the district	ongoing
Determine what incentives will help keep teachers in class	Survey teachers on what incentives will keep them in the classroom more	Teacher survey	December 2010	Jack Parker	Compile results from survey to determine what incentives may reduce teacher absenteeism	Ongoing