Working Toward a Bully Free School

Tool 7.1 Action Planning Template

Goal:  Would students be more safe if teachers, counselor, and administrators were better able to protect them from bullies in our schools by researching where the bullies are taking advantage of the victims?

                            

                                 Person(s)          Timeline:               Needed

Action Step(s)     Responsible         Start/End            Resources        Evaluation

1. Observe students in classroom setting who are having issues with bullying	Myself Classroom teachers	January 2013/ June 2013	Time Cooperation of teachers whose classroom will be observed.	Monitor students’ participation and social skills in class.
2. Interviews with 7th and 8th grade students, counselors, administrators, and their teachers.	Myself	March 2013/ June 2013	Interview forms and teacher and student cooperation.	Monitor students and evaluate them using interview forms
3. Individual Surveys	Myself Teachers Students	January 2013/ February 2013	Questionnaire to be filled out by teachers and students.	Analyze information collected from surveys.

Examining What We Do to Improve Our Schools             Sandra Harris, Stacey Edmonson, Julie Combs © Eye On Education

Data...A Huge Classroom Help

We know that our Action Research Plans have come from a good place, but do we realize how helpful data can be? It's time consuming to sit down and figure out the best way for us to collect data to resolve a school or classroom conflict. It's even more time consuming to actually collect that data. This year I have really come to realize that my school is using a significant amount of time, money, and energy to collect data in order to make our school a better place as well as to make our students more successful. Initially, I didn't understand why we were spending so much time. I didn't understand how helpful data can be. I had a lot to learn.
After my research and studying data-driven research, I realize that it's the only way we are going to be able to 'fix' our school's problems. It is imperative that we have a system to measure what is wrong so that we can look at what needs to be done in order to make those necessary improvements.