Here are my three ideas for my action research project. Help me out and tell me what you think!

1. Would better lines of communication lead to stakeholder satisfaction, parental involvement in student success and parental involvement in school activities?  My plan is to start with a basic survey with parent feedback in regards to communication thus far.  I would then like to implement an electronic newsletter collecting data on the number of times the newsletter is viewed. Additionally data can be collected through the number of parent/teacher conferences that are attended. Surveys could be done periodically to track our progress.

 2. An overall dilemma I have heard from the teachers is the quality of students written responses. My concern is that because the school is an online curriculum the art of written communication may be lacking.  The school currently has a communications component in place with the study of public speaking.  I would like to further their communication efforts through writing. My question would be, Will student examination of the writing process improve the student's efforts of written communication?  Data collection could begin by proposing a question in which students must respond.  The teachers would then begin the review or teaching of the writing process. Student writing samples will continue to be collected to monitor student progress.  At some point the students will be introduced to a writing response rubric in which they will be expected to write to the standard of the rubric.

 3. The high school curriculum at this time does not incorporate any live lessons other than Spanish class.  My question would be, would student success improve with the incorporation of at least a weekly live lesson in the core subjects?  The data that could be taken into consideration is students’ grades from the 2012-2013 school year where no live lessons were included, verses student grades for the 2013-2014 school year in which live lessons would be done weekly.