Bowbells High School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2024-2025 Bowbells High School Annual Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2024 - 5/31/2025
Vision

The students will be respectful, responsible, and productive educated citizens.

Mission

Provide a safe environment and educational opportunities to empower students to develop skills, knowledge, and character

Beliefs

We believe that all students have the ability to learn.

We believe that all teachers have room for growth.

Academic Achievement
If staff employ best practice instructional strategies based on student need, then students will demonstrate academic growth.
Student Engagement
If we create a variety of experiences and opportunities for students to be choice ready, then they will possess skills for life, learning, and work.
Climate and Culture
If we foster a culture and climate that promotes a safe and supported environment, then students will experience a sense of belonging.
Objectives
  • Evaluate current use and establish expectations for step up to writing.
  • Students will demonstrate proficiency and/or growth in mathematics.
  • Students will demonstrate proficiency and/or growth in reading (phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension).
  • Students will demonstrate proficiency in critical thinking skills.
Objectives
  • All students will say, write, or do every 2 - 10 minutes in all classrooms to ensure active participation.
  • Ensure all students engage in exploring career exploration, development, or awareness opportunities.
  • Students will have many choices of course offerings.
Objectives
  • Build social, behavioral and emotional wellness within the Bowbells School.
  • Monitor morning meeting effectiveness
  • Recognize strengths of all students.
Critical Initiative
  • Academic vocabulary instructional routine will occur in all content areas.
  • Evaluate core math curricular resources.
  • "Evaluate the use of supplemental math resources: Freckle, IXL, Reflex, Frax."
  • "Evaluate the use of supplemental reading resources: Rewards, Reading Horizons Phonics Program, Six Minute Solutions, Freckle, IXL"
  • Oral reading will occur in all content areas.
  • Provide opportunities for students to find, assess, and cite sources for opinion/argumentative and informative writing.
  • Teachers will establish a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum (Priority standards.)
  • Teachers will intentionally plan lessons using district-approved curricular resource materials and lesson plan format.
  • Teachers will intentionally plan standard-referenced instructional cycles (instruction and assessment).
  • Teachers will map priority standards (curriculum map).
  • Use engagement strategies to encourage higher order questions/thinking in all classes.
Critical Initiative
  • Analyze ELEOT data and make decisions.
  • Connect learning to the real world by offering field trips and virtual learning opportunities (Career View VR).
  • Dual credit courses will be offered for students to get a jump on post secondary instruction.
  • Invite industry professionals to come into classrooms to share knowledge about specific topics.
  • ITV courses will be provided to offer a variety of course opportunities for students.
  • Offer career counseling services for all students.
  • Offer job shadowing experiences.
  • Offer PAES lab for all students, but required for eighth grade.
  • Offer work based learning opportunities through cooperative work experience on and off site.
  • Online courses will be offered for students to pursue interests in the CTE field, such as agriculture, engineering, family and consumer science, etc.
  • Use engagement activities in the classroom every day.
Critical Initiative
  • Continue to build connections across grade levels with quarterly Eskimo family activities in conjunction with student of the quarter.
  • Continue to utilize Zones of Regulation school wide.
  • Continuing to recognize student of the quarter and honor roll students.
  • Expand an engagement specialist to support emotional, academic success, attendance (check & connect).
  • Highlight positive student behaviors and achievements using postcards.
  • Implement an after school program, including aspects from Big Brother/Big Sister - study groups, tutoring.
  • Implement initiative to improve mindset and intrinsic motivation.
  • "Implement monthly school wide celebrations: Homecoming; state sendoffs; Dr. Seuss, fun National holidays (donuts, Hawaiian lei, space day, beach day, fitness day)"
Key Measures
  • NDSA ELA (Reading and writing)
  • NDSA Math
  • Scales-aligned assessments
  • Standards-referenced Formative Assessment
Key Measures
  • Choice Ready
  • ELEOT Classroom observation data
  • Student Engagement Surveys
Key Measures
  • Attendance
  • Discipline referrals (behavior)
  • Morning Meeting Survey
  • Number of Postcards sent home
  • Stakeholder surveys
  • Student Grades
Data Literacy
If we want students to meet grade level outcomes, then staff will consistently review student performance data and respond collaboratively and systematically.
Objectives
  • Teachers will continuously monitor and respond to student performance data in their classroom.
  • Teachers will engage in reading and math benchmark data day analysis (protocol) and instructional response planning three times/year.
Critical Initiative
  • An assessment guide and calendar will be established.
  • "An instructional resource inventory will be developed 1. Math 2. Reading"
  • Instructional resources and/or routines will be selected and implemented to match student performance needs identified by data.
  • Instructional response plans will be monitored.
  • Skill groups will be established.
Key Measures
  • Phonemic Awareness Screening Test
  • Quick Phonics Screen
  • Six Minute Solutions data
  • Spelling Inventory
  • STAR data
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