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Sunday, September 30, 2012



My action research plan has seen a slight slow down with the first six weeks of school underway, three preps, and current coursework. When I have a spare moment, I have been searching for articles relevant to my topic and have been trying to watch my campus administrators tackling these issues first hand by looking for campus needs, collecting data, and trying to implement new initiatives for our campus. Perceived leadership of each campus differs from location to location, and based on recent coursework, it is now becoming a job that is done collaboratively through many persons working for the benefit of adult and student learners. Crafting questions related to leadership styles has been the biggest challenge. I am worrying more about what administrators are not going to say versus what they have to say. I hope the daily grind of campus administration yields some positive finds in the ways of action research. By studying these and disseminating my findings, I hope that I am able to contribute to district initiatives or awareness of working styles and the find leadership of who is sending out young learners into the world. Setting examples for our learners and sending the message that learning and education is a life-long standard will hopefully inspire and challenge the students to reach higher in their own educational dreams. We have a campus influx of several hundred more students which changes the economically disadvantaged population numbers, so my next quest is to sit down with administration and counseling staff based on our new numbers. Testing data of new students will be coming in from multiple districts and campuses, so I will look at adjustments in our AEIS report and possibly have to adjust campus population numbers. It shouldn’t hinder the questioning of campus administrators, but it may offer new advantages for their own campus-based action research which may reveal some interesting finds.