Bottineau Junior-Senior High School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2024-2025 Bottineau Jr-Sr High School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2024 - 5/31/2025
Vision

Bottineau Public School will strive to be a school of excellence by providing a safe environment and current practices and technologies to promote comprehensive student learning and success. 

Mission

We will accomplish our vision by: offering a well-rounded and challenging curriculum, encouraging participation in a variety of extracurricular activities, and offering quality professional development for staff that enhances instructional delivery and other support services. 

Beliefs

Given the proper resources and support, all students can make gains socially, emotionally and academically, to become productive citizens. 

Individualized Learning
If we analyze student performance data, pinpoint specific student strengths and weaknesses, and cultivate appropriate learning experiences based on that data, all students will advance academically.
Exemplary Instruction
If we provide high-quality professional development/continuing education to teachers and school leaders, we will increase teacher effectiveness, thus increasing student achievement across domains.
Equity
If we work collaboratively in PLCs, we will align instructional components, such as content, educational experiences, & teaching methods, to ensure equity throughout our systems of student learning.
Objectives
  • Benchmark scores used to determine placement into remedial classes, with careful monitoring of progress data to be sure placements are appropriate.
  • To decrease the number of students placed in remedial programming.
Objectives
  • Learning walks, site visits, and classroom observations will be tools utilized as measures of accountability and professional growth for teachers.
  • Provide a multitude of mini PD opportunities throughout the year, covering a variety of topics, and appropriate across curricular areas.
  • To increase student performance on NDSA.
Objectives
  • PLC cycles to continue under guidance of instructional coach
  • Work in content area PLCs will keep a focus on school wide alignment of overarching goals and initiatves
Critical Initiative
  • Cut scores will be carefully established by the leadership team and intervention staff to determine thresholds for remedial placement, while examining benchmark data.
  • We want to see evidence of fewer students in need of remedial instruction at each grade level, with each change of semester.
Critical Initiative
  • New PD opportunities, refreshers, online modules, book studies, learning walks, etc.. will be utilized to keep up our robust system of professional learning.
  • Teacher accountability measures will be put in place to assure that best practice strategies are implemented with fidelity across classrooms.
  • We want to see 10% growth in student scores on all content areas of NDSA, from 23-24 to 24-25.
Critical Initiative
  • Staff will continue the ongoing work of the PLC model, with assigned responsibilities within that PLC team.
  • The school wide initiative of Content Learning Tasks will be implemented.
Key Measures
  • appropriate progress and benefit from intervention
  • STAR scores, in-program assessments
Key Measures
  • adjustments in teaching based on new information
  • daily routines well established within classes
  • evidenced by subtest scores on NDSA
  • increased comprehension of content area material
  • observed explicit teaching practices in classrooms
  • project based learning to show evidence of growth
Key Measures
  • consistent teaching practices will ensure equity
  • Content Learning Tasks shared with other PLCs
The Strategy Map has been created in collaboration with The North Dakota Department of Public Instruction and Cognia™.

All schools in North Dakota participate in a Continuous Improvement process. Continuous Improvement means examining a school’s current reality including demographics, culture, technology, finances, and academic progress, among many other factors. In addition, Continuous Improvement means looking into the future and predicting what may change – what will be different a year from now, or 10 years from now.

 

During the 2018-2019 school year, all schools in North Dakota participated in this Continuous Improvement journey. School personnel participated in training and collaborated with diverse stakeholders such as community members, teachers, parents and students to map out what the school’s priorities are, what the school’s objectives are and what critical initiatives needed to be implemented to achieve those objectives. This planning process resulted in a Strategy Map – a 3 to 5-year plan for the school.

 

It is important to note that the Strategy Map is a snapshot in time. It is documentation of what the school’s priorities were the past school year. In this case the Strategy Map below was captured and submitted on May 1, 2019. It is equally important to note that the Strategy Map below may have changed since its submittal. This is because priorities may have changed quickly depending on numerous factors. Factors can include, but are not limited to, a natural disaster, a high staff turn-over rate, or an influx or decrease of students. To obtain a copy of this schools current and update Strategy Map, please contact the local school administrator.



Please contact North Dakota's Department of Public Instruction with any questions and feedback via email to the following address: dpidashboard@nd.gov