SCHOOL VISION:
All students of Nixon-Smiley High School will reach their optimum potential as academic, socially competent, motivated, and accountable citizens.
GOAL: Increased collaboration between school, home, and community to increase student academic achievement.
The school/family/community partnerships are essential to the students’ academic achievement and the overall positive school culture. These partnerships also have the potential to increase the importance that the family places on education due to their greater involvement and understanding of the education process and the role it plays not only in the lives of high school students but also how it affects life after high school. However, these partnerships are lacking at the high school level. Therefore, the action research process will address the following inquiries by giving me the platform to collect the data, analyze the data, to seek out strategies and processes to develop and implement successful school/family/community partnerships on the high school campus.
1. What are the barriers that prevent the school/family/community partnerships and what can be done to reduce or eliminate these barriers?
2. What is the academic achievement relationship between those students and families that are actively involved in the school/family/community partnerships and those that are not?
3. What effects do these partnerships have on the students’ desire to further their education beyond high school?
OUTCOMES: Define barriers to school/family/community partnerships.
ACTIVITIES: School faculty, students, families, community and business members complete written or on-line survey to discover the barriers to the school/family/community partnerships.
RESOURCES: A survey will be created with Survey Monkey and administered on-line or in written form.
RESPONSIBLE PARTY: Jane Iams - Researcher
TIME LINE: August 26, 2010
ASSESSMENT: Completion of the survey and analyze the data gathered.
OUTCOMES: Set the stage for developing school/family/ community partnerships.
ACTIVITIES: Meet with stakeholders(school board, school administrators, faculty, staff, students, family members, community and business members) to discuss the data collected through the survey.
RESOURCES: Schedule a meeting time with stakeholders to discuss and analyze survey data.
RESPONSIBLE PARTY: Jane Iams - Researcher, High School Principal, Lead Teachers, Parents, Students, Community and Business Members
TIME LINE: September 2, 2010
ASSESSMENT: Stakeholder feedback.
OUTCOMES: Set the stage for developing school/family/ community partnerships.
ACTIVITIES: Meet with stakeholders to collaborate on ideas and activities for increasing involvement in partnerships.
RESOURCES: Brainstorming meeting while focusing on data gathered to come up with ideas and activities to be held to increase participation.
RESPONSIBLE PARTY: Jane Iams - Researcher, High School Principal, Lead Teachers, Parents, Students, Community and Business Members
TIME LINE: September 7, 2010
ASSESSMENT: Datelines for ideas and activities determined and responsible parties assigned.
OUTCOMES: Increase participation for School/Family/Community partnerships.
ACTIVITIES: Family/Community Activity Nights
RESOURCES: Resources for the (5) Family/Community Nights will be determined by the teachers planning the activities.
RESPONSIBLE PARTY: Each core subject and all electives will be responsible for selecting a monthly activity night to host.
TIME LINE:One Family/Community Night per month (5) - September, October, January, March, April
ASSESSMENT: Sign-in Sheets with signatures and dates.
OUTCOMES: Increase participation for School/Family/ Community partnerships.
ACTIVITIES: Family/Community Activity Nights that are not academic related.
RESOURCES: Resources for the non-academic Family/ Community Nights will be determined by the school faculty and community members planning the activities.
RESPONSIBLE PARTY:Jane Iams - Researcher, Band Director, F.C.C.L.A. Teacher, Agriculture/Welding Teacher, Technology Teacher, Community/Business Members
TIME LINE: 3 Non-Academic Family/Community Nights per year - November, February, May
ASSESSMENT: Sign-in Sheets with signatures and dates.
OUTCOMES: Determine the relationship of participation in the Family/ Community Nights and student achievement.
ACTIVITIES: Analyze the data gathered based on students’ and their family’s participation in Activity Nights and how it influences their academic achievement.
RESOURCES: Sign-in Sheets from Activity Nights, students’ grades, benchmark grades, attendance records.
RESPONSIBLE PARTY: Jane Iams - Researcher, High School Principal, High School Lead Teachers
TIME LINE: Once a month, usually the first of the month, the students’ information will be compared to the previous months’ data to determine growth.
ASSESSMENT: Student grades, benchmark grades, and attendance records.
OUTCOMES: Asses the students’ attitude toward furthering their education beyond high school.
ACTIVITIES: Student surveyed regarding their attitudes toward higher education.
RESOURCES: On-line Survey created with survey monkey.
RESPONSIBLE PARTY: Jane Iams - Researcher
TIME LINE: September 2, 2010, January 10, 2011, and May 10, 2011
ASSESSMENT: Survey data collected and analyzed
OUTCOMES: Assess Findings
ACTIVITIES: Collect Data: 1) Participation levels – Sign –in Sheets, 2) Student Grades, Attendance, High Stakes Testing,
3) School, family, community survey data
RESOURCES: Time allocated to collecting data.
RESPONSIBLE PARTY: Jane Iams - Researcher
TIME LINE: End of the 2010-2011 school year
ASSESSMENT: Stakeholder Feedback, Student Progress, Increase in school/family/community partnerships
