Overwelmed!

I have been feeling overwhelmed this week. I started this course on the same day that I began teaching AFTER having my teaching assignment and classroom location completely changed the Friday before we started school. To top it off I have 165 students and I swear I have every special student with an IEP AND a BIP! I am really feeling like I have bitten off too much this time. My idea for an action research project is to try and increase parent/guardian involvement, especially the involvement level of the parents of our lower socio-economic and/or minority students. I feel like these groups tend to be the ones who are most often overlooked. I have heard other schools discuss parent training program so that parents can help their students with their homework, even though this might be more applicable at lower grades, I still feel parent training would be beneficial for the parents of secondary students. I just wish we could more parents who often feel they are not good enough to volunteer or help involved in our positive school activities, instead of just discipline or academic problems. I really feel positive interaction would increase student performance, if only because parents would be more knowledgeable about what their student is doing.