Silver Ranch Elementary School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2024-2025 Silver Ranch Elementary School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 5/1/2024 - 4/30/2025
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.  


Our BPS values: Inclusion, Excellence, Innovation and Leadership

Beliefs

At Silver Ranch, we are safe, respectful and responsible.

Operational Excellence
We will build trust and partnerships with students, staff, parents and the community by implementing systems that engage and inform to improve operational effectiveness.
Personal Excellence
We will collaboratively provide a continuum of supports to guarantee a positive school experience for all students.
Learning Excellence
We will engage students in meaningful learning that supports one year's growth.
Objectives
  • Identify and provide diverse opportunities for all families to feel connected and celebrated within the school community.
  • Provide job-embedded professional development and feedback that is directly related to instructional and academic growth goals.
  • Teachers have formal roles in the decision making process regarding school initiatives.
Objectives
  • Implement and monitor Tier 1 MTSS-B systems of support.
  • Use the continuum of supports to address student behaviors at Silver Ranch.
Objectives
  • Collaborative teams regularly interact to address common issues regarding curriculum, assessment, instruction, and the achievement of all students.
  • Communicate a clear vision of how teachers should address instruction using the Silver Ranch Instructional Framework.
  • Establish, implement and monitor Tier 1 MTSS-A systems of support.
  • Monitor predominant instructional practices, while observing and discussing effective teaching.
Critical Initiative
  • Create a yearlong school calendar of family events.
  • Ensure all teachers and staff know the decision making process regarding school initiatives and how they can provide input regarding the optimal functioning of the school.
  • "Families have formal ways to provide input regarding the optimal functioning of the school. "
  • Finalize Silver Ranch Leadership Opportunities flowchart and present to certified staff.
  • Host routine Parent Advisory Committee Meetings.
  • School leader conducts focus group meeting(s) with students, staff, and families.
  • Set and monitor professional learning goals, and participate in Learning Cohorts, based on elements on the framework
Critical Initiative
  • Communicate with families the Silver Ranch continuum of supports for students.
  • Continually review school-wide expectations throughout the school year and monitor for student success.
  • Monitor and collect data on the effectiveness of the use of continuum of supports.
  • Routinely share MTSS-B data with certified staff and collaboratively decide on next steps.
Critical Initiative
  • Determine and implement best practices for students receiving enrichment and Gifted Ed support.
  • Implement a school-wide focus on student’s being fluent readers.
  • Implement learning rounds for certified staff 2 times a year.
  • Implement Unit Cycle in PLCs as grade level teams make data driven decisions for students.
  • Monitor the effective use of Element 1: Providing Proficiency Scales
  • Provide multiple informal opportunities for staff to observe effective teaching.
  • Set a school wide focus on the desing are of direct instruction from Silver Ranch's Instructional Framework.
  • Use the instructional framework to plan effective instruction.
Key Measures
  • BPS Survey Results
  • Certified Staff Learning Portfolios
  • Focus Meeting schedule and agendas
  • Yearlong Calendar
Key Measures
  • BPS Survey Results
  • Data Review Schedule
Key Measures
  • Certified Staff Learning Portfolios
  • Instructional Framework Data
  • Student Achievement Data
Environmental Excellence
We will ensure a safe environment that creates a community of belonging and well-being where all members of the Silver Ranch community feel welcomed and valued.
Objectives
  • Identify and provide diverse opportunities for all staff to feel connected and celebrated within the school community.
  • Identify and provide diverse opportunities for all students to feel connected and celebrated within the school community.
  • Refine safety processes and procedures and train all stakeholders.
Critical Initiative
  • Create calendar of events for staff that allow for team building
  • Create new student/family welcome process that includes clear roles and responsibilities
  • Create student leadership opportunities, along with opportunities for students to share their personal strengths and highlight interests
  • Create yearlong calendar including safety team meetings, CPI meetings, and trainings to all staff.
  • Identify and communicate how we will continue to celebrate our students
  • Identify and communicate how we will continue to celebrate staff
  • "Train new staff and review safety processes, and conduct regular practice drills throughout the year. "
Key Measures
  • BPS Survey Results
  • Documentation of celebrations
  • Documentation of new student welcome process
  • Drill Log
  • Monthly Assembly Agendas
  • Student leadership tacking sheet
  • Training Log for New Staff
  • Yearlong Calendar
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