Action Research video review

The first person that I am choosing to respond to for this section is that of Dr. Johnny Briseno-Principal of Rancho Isabella Elementary School in Angleton ISD. I liked how he brought up that they are a data first school and that sometimes that you can not just go by the numbers. Sometimes that when you break down to the individual student that there may be some underlying causes for what is going on.

I like how the action research that they did was that the first and second grade teachers do flexible grouping based on the students multiple intelligences. I also liked how Dr. Briseno allowed for those teachers to communicate with the upper elementary teachers and say when they were in my class this is how they were and this is what worked best for them, and this is how I got the most results from them.

I know as a teacher I do not always want to hear the negative stuff so I very rarely go speak to the previous years math teacher about the student. But sometimes not having to reinvent the wheel is ideal.

The second person I chose was Dr. Kirk Lewis, Superintendent for Pasendena ISD. They have been working on a grant for the expectation graduation which is for the 9^th graders in their district. They were looking at ways to beef up the rigor and also the change of the delivery method to the students. They were able to take some information from other districts and combine it together to make their own program. But it was based on data. They wanted to see where the growth was coming from and the areas that they still needed to improve on. They look at it as a whole district and then they take all the way down to the individual students.

What I learned from both of these professionals is this. When it comes to research you need to be excited about the topic and it needs to interest you. If it does not interest you then you are not going to be focused on it. It also has to to be data driven. Why would you waste your time researching something that does not need to be fixed in your own school? If you are researching what is interesting to you and what needs to be fixed within your school then you are going to see it all the way through til the end.