Pioneer Elementary School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2024-2025 Pioneer Elementary School's Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2024 - 5/31/2025
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.

Beliefs

Inclusion, excellence, innovation, and leadership.

Personal Excellence
Data based behavior decisions supporting positive culture and climate throughout Pioneer (students, families, staff, & community)
Operational Excellence
We will employ effective communication systems and partnerships, seeking ongoing input, to improve operational effectiveness.
Environmental Excellence
We will ensure a learning environment that is safe and respectful and that advances learning for every student.
Objectives
  • Establish and monitor a continuum of evidence based interventions at all MTSS levels.
  • The school community will support the development of personal self through offering extracurricular activities.
Objectives
  • Implement an evaluation growth model for teachers that encompasses BPS values where staff reflect on their growth (2.4).
  • "Staff will have formal leadership roles in the school allowing ownership in school decisions and operations (HRS 1.3) "
  • Stakeholders will be asked to give input regularly on the operation of the school and their role as partners (HRS 1.5, 1.6)
Objectives
  • School safety- the students, staff, and parents perceive the school environment as safe and orderly.
  • Successes of the school, as well as individuals within the school, are appropriately acknowledged (HRS 1.7)
Critical Initiative
  • Establish and monitor a continuum of evidence-based interventions at all MTSS levels that result in early identification, implementation, using data-based decision making.
  • Extra-Curricular: Pioneer will continue to offer STEM Club, Art Club, introduce students to chess enrichment, and offer Pace Setters as a leadership option for students.
  • Provide professional learning in the area of SEL using PBIS framework.
Critical Initiative
  • "All staff will have written professional goals in place. "
  • Decisions made by teams, and input collected, will be transparently shared with stakeholders.
  • Ensure all staff participate in professional learning in building and personal goals chosen including coaching and observation of instruction.
  • "Formal Leadership team to be created including committee team leads. Each committee will operate as a PLC with clearly defined roles and responsibilities. "
  • Increase in walkthrough observations in every classroom so that every teacher has multiple pieces of observation data and feedback for reflection.
  • Staff, students, and parents take yearly surveys to monitor schools operations (BPS survey, quick data monitoring).
Critical Initiative
  • Effective school, family and community partnerships include collaboration of families, schools, and communities in improving learning for all students.
  • Implement strategies to positively acknowledge our school as a whole, staff, and students individually.
  • Improve communication to all stakeholders on safety processes and procedures.
Key Measures
  • BECA
  • MTSS tiered data and related interventions.
  • School Calendar
  • SEL grades.
  • Tier 2 BPS behavior training
Key Measures
  • 80% of staff self asses as a 3 on elements chosen.
  • Annual evaluations
  • BPS Staff Survey
  • Decision Matrix
  • HRS level one survey
  • Monthly Coach/Principal/Peer Feedback Rounds
  • Parent Survey
  • Principal/Coach walkthrough schedules.
  • Professional Development Agendas.
  • Student survey
Key Measures
  • Family Engagement events (Schedule)
  • Home/School communications
  • Newsletters, parent videos, power announcements.
  • Parent Survey
  • School Calendar
  • Student survey
Learning Excellence
We will promote academic excellence through challenging and relevant learning opportunities that engage and inspire every student to achieve at high levels.
Objectives
  • Collaborative teams continue to interact to address curriculum, instruction, assessment, and achievement of individual students.
  • The School Communicates a clear vision as to how teachers should address instruction, predominant eliminants monitored, PD is relevant.
Critical Initiative
  • "Collaborative teams will implement 6 week SMART goals and monitor learning weekly in order to provide timely response to learning through tier 1 instruction, interventions, and enrichment. "
  • Refine and clarify a clear instructional framework to guide teachers in effective teaching strategies. (2.1)
  • Staff will pick personal element goal from Instructional Framework and teachers will self-assess their learning 3 times on building elements and personal goal chosen.
  • Use an observation tool to collect and analyze classroom observation data related to instruction.
  • Yearly staff training on Student Assistance Team process. Teams consider ICEL when problem solving (Instruction, Curriculum, Environment, Learner).
Key Measures
  • 80% of staff self asses as a 3 on elements chosen.
  • BPS Sharepoint walkthrough tool
  • Danielson's Framework for Teaching
  • HRS level one survey
  • Instructional Framework
  • School professional growth goal
  • Student MAP results.
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