Action Research - The beginning

I am very excited to be working through my first action research project.  The process seemed intimidating at first, but I am already seeing the value in the research, implementation, and reflection.  My research has to do with monitoring student progress throughout the daily lessons.  I am trying to implement a plan that will allow me to support the learners along the way and not find out at the end of a unit that they didn't understand what I wanted them to learn.

The following is my annotation to an article that I used for my research.

Kenkel, Sue, Steve Hoelscher, and Teri West. "Leading Adolescents to Mastery." Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development April (2006): 33-37. Print.  This article was about a school that adopted an approach called ABCI approach.  In this approach the school as a whole works together to make sure that everyone completes assignments with a C or better.  This approach took a few years to get to work.  All of the school employees were required to change and support the students.  It took many unusual tactics to make this work, such as finding tutors and transportation to teach students in need on the weekends.  This school did see large improvement in work ethic and performance.