Silver Ranch Elementary School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2025-2026 Silver Ranch Elementary 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.  


Our BPS values: Inclusion, Excellence, Innovation and Leadership

Beliefs

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

Learning Excellence
We will collaboratively design and deliver meaningful learning experiences that empower all students and staff to grow through engagement, reflection, and alignment to their individual strengths a
Personal Excellence
We will create a safe and empowering environment where students and educators are elevated through meaningful support and collaborative decision-making.
Environmental Excellence
We will foster a safe, welcoming environment by building strong relationships and ensuring clear, consistent communication with students, staff, and families.
Objectives
  • 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.
  • Provide job-embedded professional development and feedback that is directly related to instructional and academic growth goals.
  • Teachers have opportunities to observe and discuss effective teaching.
Objectives
  • Establish and maintain a high structure environment where all students feel safe.
  • Use the continuum of supports to address student behaviors at Silver Ranch.
Objectives
  • Create a school community that fosters positive relationships, where every student feels cared for and valued.
  • Families feel empowered and engaged as partners to support their child and the school.
  • 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.
Critical Initiative
  • Certified staff set and monitor professional learning goals, and participate in Learning Cohorts, based on elements on the instructional framework
  • Create a system of informal observations at Silver Ranch.
  • Create a yearlong plan (scope & sequence) and implement best practices for students receiving Enrichment and Gifted Ed support.
  • Develop and implement classroom fluency routines.
  • Implement learning rounds 2 times a year for certified staff.
  • Implement Wit & Wisdom to fidelity.
  • Introduce and use the data warehouse, Panorama, to monitor student data.
  • Provide meaningful job-embedded professional development for certified staff that is driven by the needs of school and district.
  • Use the instructional framework to plan and provide effective instruction to engage all learners focused on the category of Feedback.
Critical Initiative
  • Communicate to stakeholders the behavioral supports available students in the school setting on a variety of platforms.
  • Create a structure and implement a Classroom Plan Development Support system to weekly assist teachers with Tier 1 strategies for behavior classroom plans
  • Introduce to staff our Silver Ranch Calls of Assistance procedure
  • Monitor and collect data on the use of continuum of supports.
  • Monitor fidelity to school-wide expectations and routinely share data with staff to collaboratively decide on next steps.
  • Use the instructional framework to plan and provide effective instruction to engage all learners focused on the design area of Rules and Procedures.
Critical Initiative
  • Administer an annual survey regarding families feeling connected to the school community. (C.A.R.E.S.)
  • Continue to utilize the Culture & Climate By-laws to plan, celebrate and support staff members.
  • Create a calendar of events for staff that allows for continued team building.
  • Create a new staff process that includes clear roles and responsibilities.
  • Create a new student/family protocol that includes clear roles and responsibilities.
  • Create and implement opportunities for students to engage in meaningful jobs.
  • Identify and communicate how we will celebrate all students.
  • Offer meaningful opportunities for families to be involved through shared events and learning experiences.
  • Use the instructional framework to plan and provide effective instruction to engage all learners focused on the design area of Relationships.
Key Measures
  • BPS Survey Results
  • Instructional Framework Data
  • Staff Survey
  • Student Achievement Data
  • Yearlong plan to strengthen community partnerships
Key Measures
  • BPS Survey Results
  • C.A.R.E.S Survey
  • Continuum of Support Graphic
  • Data Review Schedule
  • ISF Report
  • Staff Survey
Key Measures
  • BPS Survey Results
  • C.A.R.E.S Survey
  • Documentation of celebrations
  • Documentation of new student welcome process
  • Monthly Assembly Agendas
  • Student leadership tacking sheet
  • Yearlong Calendar
Operational Excellence
We will implement responsive and efficient systems that reflect stakeholder input, support our growing community, and strengthen strategic partnerships to ensure effective school operations.
Objectives
  • Cultivate partnerships with the community to enhance student learning and promote career readiness.
  • Teachers have formal roles in the decision making process regarding school initiatives.
Critical Initiative
  • Establish and track community partnership opportunities aligned to grade level standards and curricular resources (study trips, guest speakers, Jr. Achievement, Family Fun Events, etc).
  • Finalize, introduce, and use School Decision Making Matrix and present to staff.
  • Finalize, introduce, and use Leadership Opportunities flowchart and present to staff.
Key Measures
  • BPS Survey Results
  • Leadership Opportunity Flowchart
  • School Decision Making Matrix
  • Yearlong plan to strengthen community partnerships
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