Week 2 - Dana text - Chapter 2

I was amazed at what a quick and enjoyable read this book has become. I was a bit skeptic when I started reading this chapter, but I found the 9 passions to be great. I know that a principal has a million things to do, but when it was broken into the 9 passions - it really made things click and become clear. I liked how each passion was broken up: Staff Development, Curriculum Development, Individual Teachers, Individual Students, Community/culture building, Leadership skills, Management, School Performance and Social Justice. I was familiar with most of the passions, but had never heard of Social Justice used in education terms. The example used was a book study of Ruby Payne's A Framework for Understanding Poverty. We use book studies on my campus and I thought I liked how I can now fit that into Action Research. Like I said in a previous post, I thought that action research was going to have me tied up in a library or online researching a topic. Action research is or should be part of our everyday life at work. The only way to improve is to evaluate ourselves and the jobs we do. Action research not only helps us, but it will improve our schools and education for our students.