Action Research Plan Take #1

Action Planning Template
Goal: How does being in sports affect male student athlete’s performance in regards to: grades, behavior, absences, and referrals?
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
Explain research inquiry to people involved and Pass out Independent teacher survey	Dorian Hall AJM Teachers	August 2013	Research information Returning School Teachers Survey	Find out how teachers feel about student athletes grades, behavior and attendance during sporting season and off-season.
Determine Population: Gather the rosters of each sport from coaches of their respectable sport. From the rosters I will select 30 male student athletes.	Dorian Hall Sport Coaches	August 2013- September 2013	Spreadsheet Sport roster	I will create a spreadsheet for each male athlete. In the spreadsheet will be data on them for in season and out of season.
Gather Baseline Data: I will use my list that I gathered and start inputting data into in season or out of season.	Dorian Hall Sport Coaches to determine which students play sports Site Supervisor	September 2013	Grades from past school year Sports Rosters	I will create a spreadsheet for each male athlete. In the spreadsheet will be data on them for in season and out of season.
Developing  Deeper Understanding: I will take data from the first progress reports and report card during that nine weeks. I will also get with disciplinarian to get any referrals. From this data I will determine if any changes needs to be implemented.	Dorian Hall School Disciplinarian	October 2013	1st nine weeks progress reports and Report Cards.	Input this data into my spreadsheet.
Self-Reflection: Communicate with principal and high school head coach’s  to find out what can be done differently to help with the athletes	Dorian Hall	October 2013	Site Supervisor Chalmette High School coaching Staff	Write a reflection about what I learned from the conversation with the high school’ coaches.
Look at Patterns: I will get the report cards of the 30 male student athletes, for the 1st through 4th nine weeks period. Every nine weeks I will send out survey’s to the teachers of these 30 male student athletes.	Dorian Hall Site Supervisor Athletes Teacher’s Secretary	October 2013- May 2014	Student’s report cards (Absence and tardy information, and GPA) Student referrals for this past year Teacher Survey	I will look to see if it is a certain group of kids that are misbehaving, a certain sport that has the most amount of issues, and send a survey out to the teachers asking about behavior tendencies.
Determine Direction: Right before the Christmas break. I will hand out another survey to the teachers. This survey will gather information about the male athletes that are in the study group. Also, I will sit down with my site supervisor and go over the data that I have gathered so far. I will run across her some changes or things that could be done differently if need be if my ARP is not going the way I think it needs to be going.	Dorian Hall Site Supervisor	December 2013	Student’s report cards (Absence and tardy information, and GPA) Student referrals for this past year Teacher Survey	Hand out survey to teachers and ask my site supervisor questions. If need be change up some things in my research.
Take Action for School Improvement: After inputting all of my data in regards to behavior, attendance, referrals, and grades. I will propose a plan to help with the findings of my report.	Dorian Hall Site Supervisor	June 2014	Report Cards Progress Reports   Attendance reports Referral reports	Propose changes to student athlete’s eligibility if performance is not on par or above par with their performance during their sport season.
Sustaining Improvement: If anything catches my eye during the ARP I will do my best to help change it then and there instead of waiting till the end of the research plan.	Dorian Hall Site Supervisor	August 2013- May 2014	Report Cards Progress Reports   Attendance report Referral reports	Always be willing and ready to adapt my ARP at any time based on findings or anything that is permissible.
Analyze and interpret data	Dorian Hall	June 2014	Action Research Data	Create charts and graphs of data findings
Present Findings: Share results with administration	Dorian Hall Site Supervisor	June 2014	Action Research Findings	I will share recommendations based on data and research to suggest how to make sure the student athletes perform the same way they do during their sports season when they are out of season.