My thoughts on action research in action

Before reading the text, taking part in an action research project seemed overwhelming and quite frankly a bit scary to me. I now, however, have a better idea of what action research is and am very excited to implement my first of many projects. Action research is just that, research in action for the purpose of implementing proven strategies to solve  a problem on your campus for your campus. Of course, this doesn't have to only be on the campus scale model it could be used in your classroom or even with a whole district. It is a process that utilizes the leaders on a campus to determine solutions to problems they identify. The process consists of determining your question, problem or "wondering", reviewing literature, analyzing data, making changes based on what you have learned and sharing solutions. There are many ways I can implement my own action research. I can implement it as part of the campus leadership team and working through campus problems. I could even use it to make changes to instruction or classroom management within my own classroom with my own students. I am planning to use action research to determine some strategies that can be used to simultaneously improve student motivation and reduce student discipline issues within the classroom. I have also considered using action research to improve parent involvement.