How Educational Leaders Might Use Blogs

Educational leaders can use blogs to communicate with teachers, parents, and fellow administrators. Blogs give educational leaders the platform to express their views on educational issues, trends, and current events. Blogs also provide administrators an effective means of sharing positive events that occur on their campuses daily.  If educational leaders can find the time to actively blog, it can build community support and a greater sense of family within the school and even within the district.

Action Research

This week I have learned that action research is a reflective process that allows for inquiry and discussion as components of the research. When it comes to action research often one is searching for solutions to everyday, real life problems experienced in schools, or looking for ways to improve instruction and increase student achievement. Action research allows one to address those concerns closest to them. Concerns in which they can display some influence and make change. Action research is a nonstop process that requires one to actively reflect on all their duties/responsibilities, related issues/problems, and connection to the overall vision and goals. The end result of action research, can allow administrators the ability to implement solutions that address specifically to his/her campus and then actively monitor and measure outcomes. Overall, action research is a tool that can allow a principal the ability to create a learning community that actively focuses on school improvement, monitors, and meets campus goals and eventually allows the principal to become an instructional leader whose vision is shared by all stakeholders. I would use action research exactly like I illustrated the process above. I think it is a beyond important process for real beneficial change to occur.