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Thursday, March 28, 2013


During my time in the educational leadership program I have found and area to build an action research paper to help my school improve in the area of inclusion and it’s effectiveness. I have researched the results of student performance at our school by tracking a certain group of students.  These students were chosen to track their performance because they were in inclusion classes and a few years earlier were not involved because inclusion was not yet available. While tracking these students I used there bench mark and state scores to evaluate how whether or not they we’re improving.  I sent out letters to other schools within our district to ask permission to use data from groups that they have tracked for the same purpose. I have received data and have begun to compare the results as well as look at the other schools ways of implementing inclusion and their processes. During the last few months I have discussed with special services our processes at our school and how these students are being tracked what has been learned from results from previous group studies.  I have also had meetings with administrators over the processes that have been used for inclusion over the years at our school.  Our administrators on all campuses all work with inclusion in the same way in the classroom.  There are inclusion teachers that float from room to room rather than having a teacher per subject area. I have found that this may not be the most beneficial as will be indicated in my action research paper. I have discussed with our administrators ways to improve the inclusion process at our school so that students are getting the most from the inclusions as possible.  I have also spoke to special services from a couple different schools at this point to better understand how they choose their inclusions teachers for their classes.   I am currently compiling these findings and organizing these facts and ideas for my action research.



Reflection of EDLD 5326

While in EDLD 5326 I have learned much about the school requirements as they relate to Title 1 schools and how the the money should be spent  and the accountability that the school is under for those expenditures. I see the the importance of the school building a parent/school compact to.  I understand how to build a site based committee and who it is made up of. I have learned what the site based committee is to do and what that all things are done for improving student achievement. I have learned what AYP is and how the school use's that data to find areas of weakness to address and improve on. During this course "School Community Relations" I have learned how important it is to build healthy parent communication better know as "two way communication" to bolster parent involvement which has been proven enhances student achievement.  I have learned that during EDLD 5326 how two way communication and increased parent involvement all work together to not only improve student achievement but also decrease discipline referrals, improve attendance, decrease tardies as well as other areas too. The one thing I felt that I learned most was the importance of parent involvement and how to decrease the barriers so that parents will want to be more involved and feel more valued in the process. As a future leader in a public school I will make sure that the parents of my community feel more welcomed at my school and I will educate my staff on the importance of being more socially aware of diversity.  I will also have a open door policy with the parents as I will have for all staff to build a family like atmosphere at the school. I will use the site based teams decisions to better improve student achievement as well as use the AYP data to find areas of weakness to improve on.