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Printer Friendly VersionAction Research Overview
Action research is a process teachers can use to analyze the effectiveness of their instruction. Through action research, Teachers Network Leadership Institute (TNLI) Fellows develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions to improve teaching and learning. While immersed in the on-going systematic inquiry required of action researchers, TNLI fellows learn to challenge existing notions about what they know regarding their students. They learn what works and what doesn't work in their classrooms and use that to make their schools true communities of learning. With "action" as the operative concept, research is put into motion as educators learn by experience which approach is most effective in any given situation. Follow the link to the right to view TNLI Action Research Monographs.
A key component of the Superintendent's Urban Principal Initiative (SUPI) program experience is the action research project. Participants are introduced to this data-driven research methodology and then coached throughout the year in the application of the action research model within their respective schools. The action research projects included in this publication are a result of each 2005-2006 teams' immersion into the critical, collaborative and reflective processes required of action researchers.
The SUPI Action Research publication will be available in May, 2007. Follow the link to the right to view the publication then.
