Action research is a tool that can be used by principals, teachers, and superintendants to design professional development for themselves based on what their class, campus, or district needs are. Action research is a way to allow leaders to take control of what they learn and they need. I believe that action research is what leaders in the school should be doing. The only people that know what the true issues on their campus is, is the principal or the leaders. If the principal is able to pick a topic that effects the school, devote time to researching it, and then able to report back to either her teachers or her superintendant about the finds of the inquiry then the school will be able to truly work on the issues that face them, not the issues that face another school or district. Many times I believe we are grasping for answers and only finding things that worked for other schools not our own. We each have individual schools just like we have individual families and what works for one, what issues one has, is not necessarily the issues that ours has or what will work for ours. Action research is a great tool that if used right will help us create better campuses and district on which to work.
Dana, N.F. (2009). Leading with passion and knowledge: The principal as action researcher. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
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