Week 2 Reflection

Reflecting on this week’s assignment has reminded me that what I do for my district is for student achievement. Since I’m not in the classroom directly impacting students, I’m still impacting students when the server is down and it takes me several hours to resolve the server problem. Or when a teacher’s computer or laptop has a problem and it takes more than a few minutes to resolve, or even several days for a technician to be onsite to resolve the problem.  It also gave me a better understanding of what action research is and how it can be used and applied in my own environment. The videos made me wonder if the interviewees were from elite high scoring campuses because I started to wonder if all districts share the same data mining ideas that were mentioned in all three videos. I really liked the idea of not implementing a program or software application unless the data showed a need for it. It made me realize that data should drive the decision in developing the success in student achievement. Since I’m in the trenches and outside the classroom, for the most part, I’m not seeing that happening from my perspective.  Overall, I found this week to be very interesting after the pressure to decide on a question for my action research project was released.