Action Research/Inquiry My Ah Ha Moment!

To be perfectly honest, and you will find it's the only way I know how to be, after reading the course syllabus, I entered into this with trepidation. I am of an age that one could totally believe that upon hearing terms such as action research; action inquiry; blog; create a blog; fear would strike my heart and it did! However, at this point, the process has been fairly painless, enlightening and dare I say it...FUN!
Action research is my new favorite thing. For as long as I can remember, my view of an adminstrator was one of remoteness and isolation. The administrator sat in their office/ivory tower, uninvolved with the school community, where they worked on their computer. Sometimes it seemed as though they were chained in that office! They had no personal relationship with the students and most of the staff due to the confines of the position. To me this was and is a tragic and untenable situation. When I went into teaching, I wanted to change the way people viewed teachers and the teaching profession. I wanted to keep my students and MYSELF engaged at all times in the learning process. We would and still do, learn by inquiry and discovery and we would learn together. After my readings, research, etc. guess what? Action research is an inquiry based method by which the administrator learns along with everyone else in a collaborative effort! This is made for me!
I decided, about a year ago, after the reality of the empty nest slammed me full force, to get my masters and be a school administrator one day. Now, everyone that knows me well tried to dissuade me from this course of action. They believed that this would stifle my creativity and originality.
This is why I will benefit from action research. It fits me. It's who I am. I want to be the kind of administrator that changes the way people view administrators...and that includes ALL stakeholders. Just as I wanted to blaze a trail in teaching...and to some extent I feel I did...I want to do the same thing as a school administrator! I am not going to sit in my office. I am going to use the action inquiry method in everything I do. I always ask a lot of questions. It can be tiring I know. Recently I was in a training. I kept asking tons of questions...because I wanted to know! The trainer got very aggravated with me. I told the trainer, they would have not liked me as a student, probably not as a teacher, and definitely not as an administrator! What I am most excited about, is that through this model, I will be allowed to be the type of administrator I always wanted to be...and not be seen as some type of educational heretic! I knew I would have to be me...but now I can justify my actions through the action research/inquiry method!