McKinley Elementary School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2026-2027 McKinley Elementary School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 2026 - 2027
Vision
Fargo Public Schools is committed to excellence through a student-centered learning environment supported by positive collaborations with students, staff, parents, school, and community. A Fargo Public Schools education will provide students with a broad knowledge base by engaging in a standards-based curriculum with co-curricular opportunities. Graduates will possess sound character and the 21st Century skills in communication, critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity necessary to participate in an ever-changing and culturally diverse world. Equitable opportunities will ensure a quality educational experience to stimulate and support all students in their intellectual, social, and personal growth.
Mission
Educating and empowering all students to succeed.
Beliefs
Fargo Public Schools are committed to: 1. Believing that all students can learn and grow. 2. Creating a supportive and positive school climate. 3. Ensuring that all students receive effective, rigorous, and relevant instruction from highly qualified teachers. 4. Engaging leadership in all student, parent, and community partnerships. 5. Making data-driven decisions for continuous improvement.
Academic Excellence
Learner Safety, Health, and Wellbeing
Exemplary Staffing
Key Measures
  • Coaching logs will indicate certified staff are engaged in instructional coaching rounds.
  • Benchmarking and interim NDA+ assessments will indicate growth toward increasing proficiency.
  • progress monitoring data indicating student growth towards reaching their goals.
Critical Initiative
  • Students will engage in SEL lessons and activities in both Tier 1 and Tier 2 & 3 settings to develop self-regulation skills that support positive behavior, active engagement, and success in learning.
Objectives
  • A district's most valuable asset is its employees. Running safe and engaging schools is not possible without committed and caring staff. Our responsibility is to ensure every needed position is filled, every staff member has access to appropriate training and professional development, and we create a work environment where employees want to return year after year.
Critical Initiative
  • Certified staff will participate in ongoing Tier 1 content-area coaching cycles, including reflection and feedback, to strengthen instructional practices and increase student achievement.
  • McKinley staff will use MTSS-A and MTSS-SEB to provide data-driven interventions and extensions, monitor student progress, adjust supports, and partner with families to help all students meet their goals.
Key Measures
  • Reviewing current behavior report data and implementing MTSS SEB plans as needed to support students.
Objectives
  • As a system of public schools, our central charge is to ensure that students develop the skills and knowledge necessary to compete in and contribute to both the workforce and society. We are equally committed to ensuring that students develop a love of learning that they will carry beyond graduation throughout their adult lives, and a sense of pride and accomplishment in their work before they leave our care.
Objectives
  • Learning cannot happen if students are not safe, healthy, and well. Our responsibility is to provide students with a physically and psychologically safe environment that makes learning possible, and to help students cultivate the social and emotional skills necessary to thrive even when challenges arise.
Community Engagement and Support
Operational Excellence and Fiscal Responsibility
Objectives
  • Strong support from caregivers, families, and the broader community is both a sign of success and a requirement for successful schools. When caregivers engage with and support their children's education, their children do better in school. Similarly, when community members see the value that we provide to students and to them, they are more likely to support investment in our school, provide opportunities for students, and join with us in celebrating their successes. Ultimately, we need strong support from all stakeholders to secure the funding and trust necessary for our students and schools to thrive.
Objectives
  • Today's schools require a complex array of facilities, vehicles, technologies, and people to function. We are committed to continuously refining our processes and budgets to ensure that our management of those assets delivers a world-class experience for students, staff, and families while making efficient use of valuable taxpayer funds.
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