Administrators use action research as a means to solve a problem or better a situation.  The implementations they choose to tackle the problem are based on collaboration from their colleagues, peer groups or stakeholders. With action research, administrators continuously collect data to determine the effectiveness of their implementations.  The data that is collected is environment specific which differs from traditional research.  With traditional research, the outcomes are generally based on a controlled environment and do not always have the same effectiveness for every environment.  Action research is environment specific. With that being said, the administrator becomes more in tune with the needs of their students, their staff and they continue to grow as a leader.

 The school that I am currently working with is less than two years old.  As a stakeholder, it is my opinion that they biggest issue with the school is the lack of communication.  My intent for my action research project is to question how I can help the school become better communicators.  Through my research, I want to question others parents as to their opinions on this topic, and how they feel the school can improve.  I further want to collaborate with the current administrators as well as the teachers to see what implementations we can set in place to resolve or at least make progress with this problems.