Meeting with site supervisor on action research plan

I met with my site supervisor. She was very encouraging about my action research plan. We thoroughly reviewed each step. We discussed a concern that teachers may feel stressed at the need to reflect so often along the way but in the end she seemed most excited that we would be using the tool itself to collect our data. She felt this would be a powerful way to provide the teachers hand-on experience with the tool from a student’s point of view. My project will focus on K-5. During our sharing we discussed the possibility of using the tool to motivate student attendance at the HS level. She was thinking that maybe student attendance data could be used. She also wanted to make sure that we keep in mind that there could be parent resistance to what we are doing. She said she recently attended a board meeting and a parent felt that all students below High School should be blocked from entering in their own URL’s. This parent felt that students would only be using the internet to go to pages that a teacher has directly provided. It is both sad and scary to think that there are parents out there who feel this way. We felt I should pose this as a discussion question on the research wiki and have the teachers blog what they might tell this parent. Posing this question on the blog does not change my action plan, it is just a topic starter I will provide. She was satisfied with my plan including my last set of revisions.