Something I am really excited about getting started on and implementing is the alternative Saturday School option at my campus. In the Dana text the author highlighted principal Lynnette Langford and her alterations to her Saturday School program. My action research project is aimed at improving parental involvement and the alteration to our Saturday School program could possibly aid that goal.
Currently, our students who are assigned SS must serve from 8am until 12pm. Most times, from my assessments, the students that serve in SS do not have active parents, therefore the alternative option for our students could help in creating more involvement and awareness. The alternative option would allow the students to be accompanied by a parent or guardian to SS. If the parent or guardian attends with the student the time to serve would change from 4 hours to just 2 hours (8am-10am).
Ms. Langford claimed in her publication that after this option was implemented the student attendance for SS went from 43 student down to just 7 students. Ultimately, my aim with this new option is to get more parents involved (especially for those students who are "At-Risk", and who are chronic behavior problems), and to decrease student behavior problems - each which through my findings are correlated to student performance.
