Lessons Learned from Week 2

This week the most important lesson I learned involving administrators conducting their own action research was in the interviews of Dr. Aterbury, Dr. Jenkins, Dr. Bresno, and Dr. Lewis.  They all said that action research is important but not to reinvent the wheel.  As educators we do not have to create brand new research topics and research.  We can use research that has been done before and apply certain aspects of the research into our schools to use as a tool to help in our own findings and our own questions. 
I've also come to the conclusion that to be a good administrator, it is important to always be engaged in a form of inquiry or action research.  Best practices show that teachers and administrators are doing forms of it now, minus the formalities.  I think that in the quest of being the best in what we do, educators and administrators need to engage in action research.  The data will lead to more questions and more research. It allows us to customize what we do to fit the needs of the students that are at our campus.