Action Research Project Update-EDLD 5326

Getting a campus culture committee together was a little harder than I expected.  The spring semester is super busy with preparing students for statewide testing, so I had to improvise on the development of the committee.  I anticipated that I would have about 10 staff members.  After everything was said and done, there are only five members.  This change has made me re-think this project as a whole and I may end up using the committee only for the survey and research portion.  I am working with my site supervisor to come with an alternate plan for the implantation portion.

 After forming this committee, I arranged to hold two meetings.  For the first meeting, I discussed my action research project in more detail and we discussed each person role, established a timeline, and future meeting dates.  At the second meeting, we discussed a method to survey both students and staff member to determine their perception of our campus culture.  We decided to utilize an electronic survey.  We decided that the goal of this survey would be to determine how our campus culture is viewed and ways to improve that culture.  This survey looked at the aesthetics of our building, our organizational structures, accessibility of staff members, beliefs about teaching, beliefs about student expectations, and student activities.  After this survey was given to staff members and students, the committee met during our planning time to analyze the responses.  We are currently determining what will be our two areas of focus.