As I embark on my last month of school there are so many things going on. I am looking at making a move, working, looking for work, and I've made my final decision on my research proposal. Initially when I started this program, I knew that I wanted my research to focus on creativity in the classroom. I changed from that to how lack of creativity produces apathy in students, and completely jumped to my current topic dealing with mathematics and intervention on a Tier 3 level. I am in the midst of writing a research proposal that focuses on the effects of the position I now hold in a rural East Texas school. I was brought in as an outside contractor to provide math intervention services for students identified as "struggling" as well as additional intervention for special education students in the 3rd and 4th grade. My participants come to me for 45 minute increments in a small group settin...