Burke Central Elementary School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2025-2026 Burke County Elementary School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2025 - 5/31/2026
Vision

Empowering students to excel in a standards-based curriculum supported by a variety of extra and co-curricular opportunities. We will achieve this while helping our students' intellectual, social, and emotional growth in a safe and caring environment.

Mission

Empowering students to strive for excellence.

Beliefs

The Burke Central Public School rests on a foundation of core values that drive our actions for students and their families. We are committed to Quality Educational Experiences, Empowerment, and Excellence in everything we do.

Positive Relationships
Burke Central School will create a safe, inclusive, and supportive environment that nurtures a sense of belonging and connectedness.
Technology Readiness
Burke Central School will embrace technology as a powerful tool to enhance teaching and learning.
Operational Efficiency
Burke Central School will ensure operational efficiency through the effective and responsible management of resources.
Objectives
  • Strengthen school culture through building positive relationships.
Objectives
  • Integrate technology into the curriculum to ensure students develop strong technology skills
Objectives
  • Implement comprehensive plans for critical operational functions within the district to ensure optimal performance.
Critical Initiative
  • Continue to promote a positive relationship between teachers, non-certified staff, students, administrators, parents, and the school board.
  • Utilize a research-based SEL program that will help students develop the social skills needed to create positive relationships and manage self-care
Critical Initiative
  • Promote professional development opportunities that focus on technology integration.
  • Teachers and students will use technology to collaborate, create, communicate, and critically think.
Critical Initiative
  • Develop a five-year comprehensive technology plan
  • Develop a Long-Range Facilities Plan
  • Develop a long-range financial plan which is data driven with historical, current, and future data projections
  • Prepare a budget aligned with school improvement plans and strategic initiatives.
Key Measures
  • Parent surveys
  • Second Step
  • Staff surveys
  • Student Surveys
Key Measures
  • Formalized Professional Development Plan
  • Technology coordinator feedback
  • Technology inventory
  • Technology surveys
Key Measures
  • Annual Budget
  • Formalized Facilities Plan
  • Formalized Financial Plan
  • Formalized Technology Plan
Academic Engagement
Burke Central School will foster an environment that promotes active student engagement and ignites a life-long passion for learning.
Effective Communication
Burke Central School will foster strong partnerships among all stakeholders through open and transparent communication channels, ensuring a collaborative and supportive environment.
Objectives
  • Engage students in the learning process to increase student learning
Objectives
  • Strengthen the communication between the school and its stakeholders.
Critical Initiative
  • Analyze Student Performance Data to identify trends and inform instruction.
  • Develop and implement a standards-based K-12 curriculum that prioritizes vertical alignment and ensures students master grade-level priority standards.
  • Establish and maintain a curriculum review cycle that ties to budget priorities.
  • Evaluate and improve our school wide Title I program.
  • Provide opportunities for students that focus on the critical attributes of a graduate to ensure students are Choice Ready.
  • Provide relevant professional development based on areas of greatest need
  • Teachers will plan and implement a minimum of one project based learning unit in each semester.
Critical Initiative
  • Continue to promote good and respectful communication between teachers, non-certified staff, students, administrators, parents, the school board, and the community.
  • Develop a communication plan to ensure effective communications with both internal and external stakeholders.
  • Use social media and various other media to promote the school and share information with stakeholders.
Key Measures
  • ACT and ASVAB
  • Annual Budget
  • Assessment data
  • Choice Ready
  • CTE Participation
  • Curriculum Plan
  • Dual Credit
  • Formalized Professional Development Plan
  • Parent surveys
  • PBL Lessons
  • Staff surveys
  • Student Surveys
Key Measures
  • Formalized Communications Plan
  • Parent surveys
  • Social media data
  • Staff surveys
  • Student Surveys
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