1. Staff development
Examples from Dana (2009) page 65:
“How does the process of peer coaching help veteran teachers continue to learn and grow, and what role can the principal play in facilitating this process?
In what ways can I, as a principal, help facilitate the professional growth of the teachers within my building through engagement in action research?
In what ways can I, as principal, best facilitate teacher professional development to aid in their integration of CTE and academic concepts throughout our high school curriculum?”
2. Curriculum development
Examples from Dana (2009) page 65:
“In what ways has engagement in a cross-school curriculum project affected our school community?
How can I build my own knowledge of exemplary writing practice?
How do I use learning communities as a tool for teachers and myself in the transformation of the writing curriculum at our school?
In what ways can a career pathways curriculum be developed at my school to simultaneously satisfy our state's new requirement for career education, meet the developmental needs of our middle school students, and integrate seamlessly into our already established middle school curriculum?”
3. Individual teacher(s)
Examples from Dana (2009) page 65:
“What types of support help my new teachers succeed?
How can I best help an out-of-field teacher succeed?
What is the relationship between changing a veteran teacher's grade-level assignment and getting her out of a rut?”
4. Individual student(s)
Examples from Dana (2009) page 65:
“What happens to struggling readers in our school after they leave intervention programs?
What effect does the inclusion environment have on the reading achievement of eighth-grade language arts students at Lake Butler Middle School?
What is the relationship between students' participation in Williston High's SWAS (School Within a School) Credit Retrieval Program and their success in high school?
In what ways are out-of-school or in-school suspensions as a consequence for discipline referrals affecting student performance?”
5. School culture/community
Examples from Dana (2009) page 65:
“What role does a weekly school wide meeting play in creating a caring school culture?
In what ways can our school develop a collaborative culture characterized by teachers from different grade levels communicating, understanding, and sharing expectations for all our students?”
6. Leadership skills
Examples from Dana (2009) page 66:
“What do I learn from comparing and contrasting my own perceptions, my teachers' perceptions, my leadership team's perceptions, and my supervisor's perceptions about my own instructional leadership as a principal?
How do I improve my ability to inspire others toward a common purpose?
How do I build a cohesive and spirited team?
How can I, as an administrator, promote teacher leadership in the elementary division at P. K. Yonge?”
7. Management
Examples from Dana (2009) page 66:
“What are teachers' levels of satisfaction with the current block schedule?
How can we all work together (students, teachers, lunch paraprofessionals, kitchen workers, custodians, and principal) to make lunchtime a cooperative and pleasant time for everyone?”
8. School performance
Examples from Dana (2009) page 66:
“In what ways will implementing the continuous improvement model help increase student achievement at Mellon Elementary?
What actions can our faculty take to improve the reading achievement of our lowest quartile students?
What is the relationship between the use of a targeted homework approach and student academic achievement as measured by the Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test (FCAT)?”
9. Social justice or equity issues
Examples from Dana (2009) page 66:
“In what ways does a whole-group book study on Ruby Payne's A Framework for Understanding Poverty contribute to how we, as a Lake Butler Middle School administration and faculty, might create change and work toward breaking the cycle of poverty?
What can we do to help close the achievement gap and improve our practice toward African American students?”
Citations:
Dana, N. F. (2009). Leading with passion and knowledge: The principal as action researcher. Thousand Oaks. C.A.: Corwin Press.
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