I have uploaded a summary document that outlines KVEC and REL’s collaboration on the Action Research Process.

Beginning in 2013, the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative (KVEC) and partners across southeastern Kentucky established the Appalachian Renaissance Initiative (ARI) through a federal Race to the Top–District grant. ARI goals include i…Read More

Amber Maggard and I have been conducting an empathy instructional study this semester. We hope to have some findings from our fall semester research by the end of December. We plan to replicate the study with a larger class in the spring semester.

Spread the word. The Action Research Summit is scheduled for April 12 at Pikeville Expo Center. This earlier date was chosen to avoid conflicts with state testing.

In addition to all the great research projects emerging across the region, I’m interested in learning more about David Chapman, Tristin Cunniff, and Jill Maynard’s music skills!! Research clearly connects music to math and literacy skills….look forward to meeting you. (Jill you are a musician, right?:)

As part of our action research project, students were to conduct interviews of people in various age groups. They were to be paired with another student to discuss the interviews and find a problem to solve by creating an invention or modifying a product. Once the student pairs created a design, discussed it with their peers and other adults,…Read More

How is Action Research a classroom benefit?
• Professionalize teaching
• Personalize learning
• Empower teachers
• Enhance motivation and effectiveness of school faculty
1. KVEC Action Research Builds the Reflective Practitioner
When individual teachers make a personal commitment to systematically collect data on their work, they are engagin…Read More

REL Central’s has released a toolkit that may be useful if your action research project is focused on a new classroom instructional strategy: Instructional Improvement Cycle: A Teacher’s Toolkit for Collecting and Analyzing Data on Instructional Strategies. The toolkit was developed with York Public Schools in Nebraska to support the school…Read More

It was wonderful to work with KVEC educators at last Friday’s Action Research workshop. Dr. Kenneth Anderson, who joined us for the workshop and shared some ideas from his action research classes at Howard University, will likely subscribe to this Holler soon but in the meantime, he can be reached at andersonk@cna.org

I’ll post the link to materials from the ARI/REL Appalachia Action Research event once they are available online. In the meantime, check out other upcoming events by REL:
1) Teaching academic content and literacy to English learners–July 22 or 23
2) Principal leadership for effective use of PGES data–July 29
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Another student engagement link—An introduction to student engagement:
[bpfb_link url=’http://relappalachia.org/events/what-is-student-engagement-and-how-do-we-measure-it/’ title=’What Is Student Engagement and How Do We Measure It?’ image=”]”What Is Student Engagement and How Do We Measure It?” is a 1-hour webinar event designed for Kentucky r…Read More

It was great to see so many people at the action research training by ARI and REL Appalachia on Jun 19. For those interested in more info about measuring student engagement, REL Appalachia has webinars and other presentations on this topic. Check out the links below:
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We have great educators in our KVEC region!

Thank you for your quick response! That does help. I wanted to be sure I follow all guidelines and limitations. Thank you again.

Last year certain sections had word limitations, but not every section. I believe it is the same way this year. While it doesn’t necessarily have to be lengthy, I suggest being as concise and descriptive as possible so that the scorers understand what you want to accomplish with your project and how you will measure your desired outcome. Hope that helps!