What a day, what a day, what a day.  That is what I have come to say at the end of each day.  Not that they are bad days, just that they are chalked full of activities, meetings, problem solving, collaboration, and intervention.  I suppose that is what keeps me going, the challenge of meeting all of these demands and sort of completing a puzzle each day.  With that I must update on my action research plan. 

I have gained the support of my department (PLC) and have had such great support for my project and my journey through working towards my Master's Degree.  I really appreciate my group, as well as the general education teachers who have graciously agreed to take on more work to help me.  In turn I am helping them, but I truly feel they are blessing me.  So update is this:  Have researched a plethora of intervention strategies for struggling learners literature, am in the process of putting it all in order and working on an outline for my PLC Staff Development.  I have been given permission to conduct a staff development to my PLC, so I am excited about that.  Also, I can give a copy of the presentation to the general education teachers and can invite them, but not require them to participate.  I put together, after many a hours of researching, a checklist to make the lives of these wonderful collaborators a little easier.  The end of the first 6 weeks is nearing, and I will pull off the failure list, and discuss the students that are failing in the co-teach classes, and review the intervention strategies that were used for them and see if there is anything else we can do to move them from this list at the 3 weeks.  Also, I have not been granted access to the AWARE database yet, you are granted access to the students you teach, and since I teach life skills I don't quite have access to many.  My assistant principal is working on it for me, and has informed me he will sit with me and look at the data if they cannot give me access. 

Ok, so there is my long overdue update.