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Saturday, August 4, 2012



ACTION PLANNING TEMPLATE (Revised Draft)

GOAL:
To measure the degree to which the staff at WVHS has implemented Step Up to Writing strategies in their daily curriculum
To discover and ameliorate obstacles to SUTW implementation
To measure the impact the implementation of Step Up to Writing has had on writing scores of students at WVHS on the high school exit exam and the  the CSTs?

Action Step(s)
Person(s) Responsible
Timeline: Start/End
Needed Resources
Evaluation
1. Gather research articles and literature on writing across the curriculum
John Bradshaw
Aug/Sept 2012
internet access,
professional education journals
Natalie Ruddell, district writing coach
2. Create teacher survey on SUTW implementation for 2011-2012 school year
John Bradshaw
Aug 8, 2012
Microsoft Word
Principal
English Chair
3. Meet with supervisor to  get permission for teacher surveys
Principal
Aug 10, 2012
Copy of action research plan, teacher survey
Principal
4. Conduct survey of teachers
John Bradshaw
Aug 21, 2012
Teacher surveys
NA
5. Invite 9th grade English teachers to gather writing samples of freshman class
Ninth grade  English Teachers
Aug 28, 2012
Write requests to English department
English Chair
6. Get writing samples from English department
John Bradshaw
Sept 11, 2012
Folders for storing samples
English Chair
7. Analyze teacher survey data
John Bradshaw
Sept 2012
Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, surveys
NA
8. Review training of staff at site
SUTW Trainer
John Bradshaw
Sept 2012
SUTW training materials
NA
9. Lead discussion of SUTW implementation  in leadership meeting
Department Chairs
Oct 2, 2012
Summary of surveys
NA
10. Collect evidence of SUTW implementation
Department Chairs
Nov/ Dec 2012
NA
NA
11. Collect testing data from 2009-2010, 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 school years
John Bradshaw
Sept 2012
Data Director
CAHSEE data
CST data
NA
12. Facilitate staff development on ways to use SUTW and how to grade it
John Bradshaw
SUTW trainer
Nov 2012
SUTW rubrics
List of writing prompts/ ideas
Principal
13. Survey staff again on implementation of SUTW in 2012-2013 school year
John Bradshaw
May 21, 2013
Microsoft Word
Principal
14. Write report of findings
John Bradshaw
Summer 2013
Microsoft Word, survey results, professional readings, testing data
Principal
English Chair
15. Make recommendations to leadership team
John Bradshaw
Aug 2013
PowerPoint, report, summary of report, data
Feedback from Leadership Team
16. Collect data from 2012-2013 school year
John Bradshaw
Aug 2013
Data Director
Compare data with previous years
17. Present findings to staff
John Bradshaw
Aug 2013
PowerPoint
Principal
Leadership Team

3 comments:

  1. Data, Data, Data,......I am glad to see that we are finally going to go forward with all the data collections we are doing. We do a similar data collection of writing on our campus (PK-1). It originated being for only our LEP students but has now grown campus wide. The plan is for it to follow them throughout their school career. We are to grade 4 at this time and it is a great tool to have for RTI, SPED concerns, G/T nominations, and just overall implementation of new writing techniques. Looking forward to following your success.

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    1. Any advice on how to do a good job with this? I am a social studies teacher with a Language Arts action research project. Luckily I have the full support of the English chair. Still any pitfalls that can be avoided would be great.

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  2. Your plan appears to be well-planned out. Writing across all subject areas has been such a push in my district as well. Good luck with your project.

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