“Creating a Successful ISS” is the action research project
that I have been in the process of working on. Currently I am in the process of meeting with
my assistant principal in reference to the master schedule for the spring
semester. After meeting with my site
supervisor along with the leadership team, various options to improve the
effectiveness of our ISS were looked at.
By looking at the master schedule we are studying having certain
teachers available to teach students in ISS.
This will be a rotation style of teaching. (Example:
1st period- Math teacher is designated to ISS. This teacher will help all students with Math
during this period. 2nd period-
Science teacher will help all students with science. ETC)
One major issue we are still looking at is to have the departments collaborate
so that one single subject teacher has what that subject is currently working
on. I have researched and acquired
discipline reports from our assistant principals along with attendance records. The reason for these reports is to see if the
majority of the ISS students are repeat offenders. I have also looked at each assistants principals
log as to how many days of ISS each student was given. I want to evaluate to see if there was a
major discrepancy in the amount of assigned days for each principal. Some of my questions were: Is different principals assigning different
days to ISS for the same discipline? Is
one principal more lenient than another?
The reason I had to focus on the above assistant principals was to see
the effectiveness of the days assigned to ISS and the amount of students currently
in ISS.
