Action Planning Template
Goal: Will taking one grade a week be beneficial to 9th grade world geography students, teachers, and administration?
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
Discuss the need to change the grading policy.	Jorge Arredondo Dr. Elizabeth Cocina Aaron Smith SDMC members	March 2012	Interview	Group decided the need for a new grading policy
Read Research on Grading	Aaron Smith Morgan Camp William Schuster Jeff Cupp	March 2012	Education Leadership Magazine ASCD website	Discussion on research
Create a survey for teachers and staff to take	Aaron Smith Morgan Camp William Schuster Jeff Cupp	March 2012	Survey Monkey	Teachers completed a survey on survey monkey. 39 teachers out of 120 responded
Create a survey and give it to a sample group of students	Aaron Smith	May 2012	Questions for the survey	Collect data from the survey
Evaluate STAAR results for World Geography from 2012	Aaron Smith Morgan Camp William Schuster Jeff Cupp	Aug. 2012	STAAR results for World Geography	View STAAR results
Create Survey Monkey to evaluate the new grading policy	Aaron Smith Morgan Camp William Schuster Jeff Cupp	May 2013	Survey Results	View and discuss survey results
Create a evaluation survey for sample students	Aaron Smith	May 2013	Survey Results	View and discuss survey results
Evaluate STAAR results for World Geography from 2012 and 2013	Aaron Smith Morgan Camp William Schuster Jeff Cupp	June 2013	STAAR results for World Geography from 2012 and 2013	View STAAR results
Reflection of Information	Aaron Smith	May 2013	All Data collected	Reflect on overall aspects of the action research