Week 2 Reflection

Action research is an important aspect to effective leadership. Nancy Dana, author of Leading with Passion and Knowledge: The Principal as Action Researcher, offers many areas of inquiry, but many of them overlap. I can see how working collaboratively could help a principal jump start his or her research because just by reading some of the questions the principals presented, I, too, started applying those questions to issues on my current campus. For example, I am interested in building a neighborhood like environment in my school, and the idea of Morning Meetings was intriguing to me. I began to wonder how they worked, how much time they took to conduct, and what were the real outcomes of these meetings. These questions could be the beginning of a research based inquiry.