EDLD 5352 Staus Updates...Campus-Supervised Internship & Action Research Plan

Campus-supervised Internship activities Status
So far I have completed ten courses in the Lamar program.  I meet on a regular basis with my site supervisor, Ms Robbie Reeves and continually complete items on my internship plan.  I have attended many administrative team meetings, been an active member of the Campus Improvement Team as well as the District Improvement Team.  I helped revise the Campus Improvement Plan, helped with the master schedule, shadowed an administrator in an ARD meeting, shadowed our administrators while on lunch duty, met with my district superintendent, served as a member of a committee to pass a bond (which it did not)  interviewed our campus nurse, shadowed out campus administrative assistants,became familiar with budget supervision, Title I & II funds, learned our scheduling computer program (DMAC), reviewed district goals for assessment, began my professional library, became an active member of our PTO, became a member of NAESP and TAESP, became more active in our school board meetings and above all have learned to be loyal and a trustworthy confidant by keeping administrative conversations quiet when need be .  I have two more courses and my ILD training  to complete my journey in becoming an administrator.  I am looking forward to the next 12 weeks!!

Action Research Status
My Action Research Project is improving parental involvement on my campus.  This is a work in progress to say the very least.   After choosing this as my action research project, I conducted a survey with current staff and parents to find ways to encourage parents to want to be involved on our campus.  Through the surveys, teachers expressed concern for more parents to become involved but did not offer any ideas as how to incorporate this plan!  The parents expressed they want to become involved but feel they are not welcome on our campus at all times.  The climate of our campus is improving and this is a must before the parents will want to stay on campus.  With the approval of my campus principal, we held two family nights for parents to come and visit with teachers in small groups for ideas helping their students at home.  Also, we had a family book fair night, a Fall Festival, and I personally became very involved in our PTO.  It was expressed at these meetings that the parents did not know the teachers, never saw the teachers at these meetings, etc.  So, with that being said I tried to encourage more teachers to participate in the monthly meetings.  A few teachers did come.  I will continue to work on this project again this year.  Our PTO is young and very energetic and I am looking forward to a great year.

EDLD 5352 Week 5 Reflection

When I first began this class I was expecting it to be just like all the previous one, read, videos, write a paper, etc, etc. etc.  But, WOW, was I ever wrong.  This class turned out to be a PBL.  "PBL, uh what's that?" is what I would have said four weeks ago.  Now there is an acronym for the very thing I have been doing in my classroom for 17 years...Project Based Learning! I had envisioned an outcome where I would be more knowledgeable about technology use in instruction. I had no idea I would learn so much in such a short time.  I have thoroughly enjoyed learning and using Google.docs to collaborate with my fellow classmates.  This is something I hope to use as soon as school begins.  I like it better than email  Everything will be in one place.  This will be a great tool to use for our PLC's.  I am excited to also join in "National Flip Your Classroom Day".  Hopefully I can introduce this to some other teachers on my campus and they will join in the fun.  This course has made me re-evaluate my thinking in how technology is used and how it's going to be used in the future of the education world.  This class definitely has me excited to begin the new school year and hopefully be a stronger leader in the technology area on my campus.  This entire class reminds me of one of my most favorite quotes,