Action Research Project update summary September 29, 2012

When plans were made with my principal this summer for the Action Research project we had several ideas to throw around. We finally decided that working on our campus RTI process would be most beneficial. I asked about beginning the year with a survey to see what improvements teachers would like to see, and I had a few ideas of my own. Then, a few weeks before our first teacher work day we had an Instructional Coordinator placed on our campus. One of her main duties was to be chairperson for the RTI process (our counselor had done these meetings previously). She agreed to let me send the survey out to staff and see what responses we got. There was not a huge percentage of returns, but one thing we did notice was the lack of knowledge on how to enter data from the RTI meetings. Our new IC began looking over file folders of papers kept from the RTI meetings and realized we were at least two years behind! She showed me how to enter the data starting back at 2010, and we have been working on all needed forms for each child. It would have been much easier if it was done during, or after, each meeting. We have been sifting through all kinds of paperwork, and some forms ask for uploaded and attached documentation. Those have to be scanned onto a computer, then uploaded. These were not my exact plans for working on the RTI process, but apparently it’s what our campus needs right now!