Action Research Plan

I am a little nervous to be posting my action research template because I am not sure I did it right. This week has been somewhat confusing with all the directions in different places and somethings not lining up. My fellow colleagues have been great with asking and answering questions in the facebook group. Please let me know if I need more information or if something doesn't make sense. Thank you!

Identify the major contributing factors for selecting a private Catholic school

I have decided to use this topic as my action research because I want to know why parents select one private catholic school over another. Working in admissions I deal with perspective parents all the time and want to know why they chose St. Theresa or why they decide to go to another school. What do other schools offer that St. Theresa does not? How can we retain our students? What can we do to stand out from other catholic schools in the area, why do parents choose St. Theresa and what can we change from the past years to make us a better school. 

   

Action Planning Template
Goal: Identify the major contributing factors for selecting a  private Catholic school
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
Create a survey to give to existing parents on why they chose St. Theresa Catholic School	Kurt Kleeman St. Theresa school parents	April 2013-May 2013	Survey questions and  Parent list	Spread sheet on gatherings found from the survey
Create a survey to add to the school application/open house flyer	Kurt Kleeman Perspective school parents	May 2013-March 2014	Survey questions	The old survey and new questions to be added to open house flyer
Analyze open house flyers “how they heard” about St. Theresa	Kurt Kleeman Perspective school parents	March 2013-May 2013	Current open house flyers, questions on those flyers and answers	Analyze data/spread sheet with gatherings
Set up meetings with other catholic school’s (non-competitors) principals and head of admission’s to collaborate enrollment and retention	Kurt Kleeman School principals and head of admissions	April 2013-May 2013	Principals and  school’s admission department  Questions for principal and admission department	Notes on discussion with those involved
Analyze date to show why school increased from 198-215, 215-250+	Kurt Kleeman Data from past school years	April 2013-July 2013	Enrollment data from the past- How many classes per grade? How many students per class? Programs offered? Total student population	Spread sheets and graphs to show enrollment then, now and future
Alumni and parent survey- satisfaction rates	Kurt Kleeman Alumni and past parents	September 2013	Alumni and past parents Survey questions	Spread sheet of data collected from alumni and parents.
Create Survey for St. Theresa school teachers	Kurt Kleeman Current St. Theresa teachers	May 2013	Current teachers Survey questions	Data collected from surveys
Why choose private over public	Kurt Kleeman School Parent (Dustee interviewed in local magazine)	October 2013	School Parent Local magazine article Interview questions	Data from interview and article information
Research online+ books	Kurt Kleeman	January 2014	Computer and books	Information found online and research done