My action research project involves parental involvement. I currently teach at a Title 1 school and our parental involvement is low. My goal is to examine in what ways can parental involvement benefit the school as a campus.

As of now, I have completed the first two steps of my action research plan. I have a total of 5 ½  hours completed. I created parental involvement brochures. Then I passed out the flyers to parents at our meet the teacher night. This was done for 5^th & 6^th grade and 7^th & 8^th grade meet the teacher night. The outcome of getting the word out to the parents was very successful. I had a table set up where I was able to talk to many parents and inform them of our parental involvement.

I am also now a member of our PTO. I attended our last meeting on September 11. I will be attending every meeting for the rest of the school year. I will be creating flyers for our PTO as well.

I will be displaying information about our parental involvement at our next fine arts event. This will be an art gallery held at the county fair. Students from our campus will have their pictures available for parents to view. I will have information about our parental involvement available for those parents. I plan to get more parents involved with our campus’ parental involvement. After the art gallery, I will be present at our fall band concert. I will also be handing out flyers for parents to learn more about our parental involvement.

My principal has made me our campus parental involvement representative. I will be attending a two day parental involvement workshop in December. There is also another two day workshop that I will be attending in April. I am looking forward to learning more information to help my campus succeed in involving more parents with our students.

On Wednesday September 18, I was assistant principal for a day. I absolutely loved it! I am so thankful that my principal is very supportive of me wanting to learn all the ropes to becoming a principal. I was able to see education from the administrators side. Being assistant principal for a day was completely different from being in a classroom teaching. I was able to do a few walk throughs, lunch duty and sit in on a conference and an ARD. I learned a lot on my first day of assistant principal. I look forward to many more!