Map Name: 2025-26 Elk Ridge School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2025 - 5/31/2026
Vision

Together, our strong relationships build inclusive, collaborative, and innovative environments that create agency and inspire a passion for learning, excellence, and discovery.

Mission

 Empower EVERY learner to thrive!

Beliefs

Elk Ridge Explorers show empathy, act safely, and creatively solve problems.

Environmental Excellence
At Elk Ridge, all staff and students will cultivate a safe, welcoming and engaging learning environment while supporting a positive school culture.
Personal Excellence
At Elk Ridge, all staff and students will display high levels of integrity, embrace diversity and appreciation of others while committing to ongoing personal growth.
Learning Excellence
At Elk Ridge, learners grow academically, think critically, solve problems creatively, and engage in personalized, authentic learning while collaborating to deepen knowledge and skills.
Objectives
  • Enhance Communication
  • Ensure a Safe Environment
  • Strengthen Community
Objectives
  • Elevating Educators
  • Nurturing Well-rounded Learners
Objectives
  • Empowering Learners
  • Prepare Future Workforce
  • Strengthen Teaching Practices
Critical Initiative
  • Celebrate students and staff through joy-filled school-wide experiences such as Hoof Prints recognitions, monthly assemblies, and success celebrations aligned to student outcomes. (HRS 1.7)
  • Develop & implement best practices for digital citizenship and responsible technology use, including systems for monitoring, re-teaching, and promoting digital stewardship across grade levels. HRS 1.6
  • Ensure all staff are knowledgeable of and implement district policy related to bullying prevention and student discipline. (OE10)
  • Ensure each student receives three Elk Cards and at least two positive parent contacts, reinforcing a culture of recognition and connection.
  • Implement classroom-based systems promoting a positive school climate. Support academic and behavioral success, including CHAMPS plans, Second Step, morning meetings, self-regulation tools. (OE10)
  • Incorporate social work coaching to further support the classroom-based systems promoting a positive school climate. (OE10)
  • Maintain a monthly Building Leadership Team focused on school safety, collaborative culture, and effective teaching, ensuring all staff contribute to a safe and supportive learning environment
  • Provide training for all stakeholders on school safety processes and emergency procedures. (HRS 1.1, 1.2)
  • Provide training for all stakeholders on shared expectations, including the Elk Ridge Belief Statement and Parent Code of Conduct. (HRS 1.1, 1.2)
Critical Initiative
  • Collaborate with community and district partners to support the behavioral and mental health needs of all learners.
  • Conduct data reviews three times annually to inform instruction, intervention, and programming decisions.
  • Foster a culture that embraces and celebrates diversity by valuing the unique needs, voices, and perspectives of all students and staff.
  • Implement and monitor a continuum of evidence-based interventions across all MTSS tiers to ensure early identification and data-driven support for students. (OE10)
  • Increase meaningful opportunities for student success to improve school-wide connectedness between students and staff. (OE11)
  • Launch the relationship mapping process in 2024–25 to ensure every student is known and supported by a trusted adult.
  • Provide ongoing professional development for all staff focused on meeting students’ social and emotional needs.
  • Refine and strengthen behavioral systems and structures for proactive school-wide support.
  • Strengthen Student Support Services (Social Worker, Counselor, Psychologist, Diagnostician) for increased efficiency and student impact.
Critical Initiative
  • Align curriculum and assessments with state standards to ensure rigor and consistency. (HRS 3.1)
  • Build staff capacity to deliver high-quality instruction across all tiers of the instructional framework. (HRS 2.1)
  • Develop and implement consistent grading practices that promote learning.
  • Engage all staff in professional learning aligned with their instructional goals. (HRS 2.2, 2.3)
  • Engage staff in professional development around student-friendly proficiency scales.
  • Ensure core instruction is consistent across grade levels and structured to address key standards within the instructional year. (HRS 3.2)
  • Expand coaching models to include peer observation and dialogue about effective teaching. (HRS 2.6)
  • Facilitate regular collaboration, high functioning PLCs, among teams to address curriculum, instruction, assessment, and student achievement. (HRS 1.4)
  • Foster personalized learning by developing the skills and dispositions needed for flexible, student-centered instruction.
  • Identify and provide PD needed to implement personalized learning at all grade levels. (HRS Level 5)
  • Implement targeted interventions and enrichment opportunities that close achievement gaps and accelerate student growth. (HRS 3.6)
  • Provide weekly common planning time to support team collaboration and alignment.
  • Regularly analyze and use data to track progress toward academic goals. (HRS 3.5, 4.2)
  • Set and monitor clear, measurable goals to address critical student achievement needs at both the school and individual level. (HRS 3.4, 4.1)
  • Use observation tools to monitor and provide feedback on instructional practices. (HRS 2.3)
Key Measures
  • BECA
  • Behavior Data
  • HRS Survey Data
  • ISF Report
  • Tracking Forms
Key Measures
  • BECA: Behavior fidelity assessment tool.
  • Engagement Survey: Measures student engagement
  • EOY Data Review: Year-end school-wide performance
  • HRS Level I Survey: Safe Culture
  • SEL Grades: Student social-emotional competency
Key Measures
  • Collaborative PLC Team Survey
  • District SBG Checkpoint Data per Classroom
  • Engagement Survey: Measures student engagement
  • EOY Data Review: Year-end school-wide performance
  • HRS Level I Survey: Safe Culture
  • HRS Survey Data
  • Marzano Teacher Evaluation
  • NDA+ Assessment in grades 3-5
  • School-wide Student Years Worth of Growth Data
  • School-wide Years Worth of Growth Data (NWEA 2-5)
Operational Excellence
At Elk Ridge, we will employ system-wide operations that meet the needs of our school community; seek collaborative input to foster partnerships and create effective and efficient operational plans.
Objectives
  • Building Partnerships
  • Provide Efficient & Responsive Services
Critical Initiative
  • Allocate fiscal, operational, and technology resources strategically to directly support instruction and align with school priorities. (HRS 1.8)
  • Build community and business partnerships that foster authentic learning experiences and leadership development.
  • Develop a comprehensive evaluation model that provides ongoing, multi-source feedback aligned with instructional effectiveness and student outcomes. (HRS 2.4)
  • Engage all certified staff in data-informed reflection to set individual professional growth goals that directly impact student achievement. (OE4)
  • Establish partnerships with wellness and behavioral health providers to offer a continuum of support services for students.
  • Involve staff, students, and families in shared decision-making through structured opportunities for input and collaboration. (HRS 1.3, 1.5, 1.6)
  • Use a variety of communication tools—email, newsletters, social media, alerts, and web updates—to keep families and stakeholders informed. (OE3)
Key Measures
  • BECA: Behavior fidelity assessment tool.
  • HRS Survey Data
  • Marzano Teacher Evaluation
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