This week has been all about taking a step back and evaluating the implementation of our action research plans.  After viewing comments on this blog and following the discussion board online I was feeling pretty good about my project as a whole.  Today, all of my students were testing which apparently gave me a little extra time to think.  During this time I began to bring about some new ideas to possibly help improve scores.  I am working with my department to create and work out the details of implementing some new plans.  We are excited about making some new things happen but now I am a bit concerned about my project.

I feel that incorporating too many ideas will lead to less conclusions to be drawn on specific pieces.  If everything in our approach is different its hard to know what works or what won't.  Therefore, while these new ideas may take away from the data, the original goal may still be met.  We want to improve the teaching practices to have our students better prepared for TAKS.  Therefore, I have to put my students first and do everything I possibly can to ensure their success even if it may pollute my action research data...