Inquiring About Attendance It Is

I found this week to be very enlightening and exciting. I always knew there were areas that could use some improvements at our campus but reading the various action research possibilities has truly refueled me with an incredible amount of energy and passion. After compiling my list of items that I would be interested in doing action research on and meeting with my site supervisor we came to the agreement that I would do my action research on investigating ways to improve the average daily attendance percentage at our high school. By choosing to research what steps can be taken to improve students’ attendance I think students, parents, teachers, administrators, and the community will benefit from my findings. If students attend school daily they are more likely to do well academically and less likely to cause discipline problems. I think raising awareness about why attendance is important and establishing good lines of communication will be extremely important if I plan to have a positive impact. Historically, our campus has teetered right around the required 90% for ADA and I want our campus to surpass this expectation with flying colors. During my meeting with my site supervisor she informed me that she would talk to our vice principal to see if I could get a period in my schedule to work with the administrator in charge of attendance. I think this will be an incredible opportunity and I will be able to see a lot of the inner workings first hand.