An administrator can use action research to investigate and try to solve most issues on his or her campus. I plan to use action research to try to solve an issue we are experiencing at my academy. We are in a unique situation in that 70% of our student population comes from the home campus on which we are located. However, the other 30% are selected from middle schools throughout the district. There are 13 middle schools in our district. It is possible that we would have students from every one of those middle schools. We are responsible for transporting the student from his or her home campus to our magnet program.
This can be a daunting task when one considers the severe congestion on the main highways in a town like San Antonio. Our city grew faster than the infrastructure that supports it. As a result, getting our students bused from the Stone Oak area into the Nimitz area has been an issue. The students have been arriving on campus 15 – 20 minutes after the bell for the commencement of first period has begun. Our classes are 45 minutes long. This means that these students have missed a minimum of one-third of the instruction for their first period class. For the majority of these students, first period is a core class (Math, Science, English/Reading, or History).
Another issue is that the students arrive at their home middle school too early to get breakfast there, but arrive too late to get breakfast on our campus. This is a serious issue because some of the bused students are on Free/Reduced Lunch (meaning that we provide breakfast for them for free or a reduced rate as well). For those students, they may not get any breakfast at home because they are impoverished and we are failing to provide for them on campus due to a transportation issue.
I plan to use action research to try to come up with a viable solution to this problem so that our students are served both educationally and nutritionally.
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