Week 3: Action Plan

Tool 7.1 Action Planning Template
Goal:	To increase student classroom attendance through the implementation of teacher involvement in tardy sweep
Action Steps	Person(s) Responsible	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
1. Determine areas of concern for student classroom attendance which could benefit from the implementation of our new tardy sweep method.	Attendance Office, Administrators, Teaching staff, Self	November 2012/ January 2013	School tardy sweep records for last year and this year, student surveys, and teacher surveys	Establish a checklist based on the “needed resources”.
2. Determine the reasons behind poor student classroom attendance. o    Which day of the week has the most tardied students? o    What period has the highest number of late students? o    What reason(s) are behind student tardiness? o    Resolutions for improving student attendance.	Attendance personnel, Administration, Committee members, Teaching staff, Self	November 2012/ December 2012	Student surveys, Teacher surveys, Last year tardy sweep records, This year tardy sweep records	Establish a checklist based on the “needed resources”.
3. Establish a method for the program. o    Determine which teachers would like to volunteer o    Establish a way to keep track of the number of students that are brought back to class.	Principal, Assistant  Principals, Teaching Staff, Self	January 2013/ September2013	List of students brought back to class, List of teacher volunteers	Evaluate results by comparing tardy sweep numbers to determine if our new method is successful and find out what may need to change.
4.        Assign volunteer teachers to certain periods of the day and days of the week.	Principal, Assistant Principals, Teaching Staff, Self	January 2013/ September 2013	List of teacher volunteers, List of teacher assigned periods and days of the week	Analyze assignment outlines, make changes where needed.
5. Evaluate the success of our program through data records, teacher surveys, and student surveys.	Principals, Associate Principals, Attendance personnel, Teaching staff, Self	February 2013/ September 2013	Tardy sweep records, teacher questionnaires, student surveys	Evaluate data records and determine if improvement was achieved.
6.  Share results discovered through my research	Principal, Assistant Principals, Teaching Staff, Committee members, Self	January 2013/ October 2013	Analyzed data, Reflection journals and blogs	Analyze data and determine if success was achieved.