Valley Middle School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2024-2025 Valley Middle School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2024 - 5/31/2025
Vision

We provide diverse and meaningful experiences for all learners in a safe and supportive environment by fostering curiosity, inquiry, and innovation.  We grow and learn together by embracing change and taking risks.

Mission

Growing together to enrich the world.

Beliefs

We believe strong relationships in our schools and community will result in developing connected, innovative learners, grounded by strong character.

Safe and Supportive
A positive school climate that prioritizes social and emotional learning, belonging, well-being, and safety protocols will ensure everyone is safe and supported at school.
Achievement for All
Ensuring access and belonging for all students while eliminating disparities based on students' diverse racial, ethnic, and economic backgrounds will increase student academic achievement.
Guaranteed and Viable
Implementing a guaranteed and viable curriculum will ensure students master grade level content standards.
Objectives
  • Create and implement comprehensive social emotional learning and mental health initiatives.
  • Increase the amount of behavior-specific praise that the teacher provides for the classroom, for groups of students, and for individual students.
  • Provide a positive school climate that prioritizes social and emotional learning, belonging, well-being, and safety protocols.
Objectives
  • Ensure access and belonging for all while eliminating disparities based on student groups to increase academic achievement.
Objectives
  • Implement a guaranteed and viable curriculum to ensure students master grade-level priority standards.
Critical Initiative
  • Implement professional learning sessions for social emotional learning.
  • Implement professional learning sessions on the impact of praising positive behavior.
  • Implement social emotional learning opportunities for students.
  • Implement training for all safety and emergency plans.
Critical Initiative
  • Identify and eliminate biases in classroom management and school discipline.
  • Implement evidence-based teaching strategies that increase access for all to rigorous learning experiences.
  • Notice when students are not engaged and adapt instruction.
Critical Initiative
  • Schedule collaboration opportunities for instructional coach and teachers to increase professional capacity to use proficiency scales and rubrics.
  • Select priority standards and create proficiency scales and rubrics.
Key Measures
  • Decreased demonstration of disruptive behaviors
  • Decreased restraint
  • Increased competency for safety plans & procedures
  • Increased demonstration of positive behaviors
  • Increased FBA, BIP, Social Skills
  • Increased positive praise during each class period
  • Increased student evaluation of essential skills
Key Measures
  • Decrease office referrals 5% by focus group
  • Incr engagement survey results by focus group
  • Incr Star CAT math proficiency 10% by focus group
  • Incr Star CAT reading prof 10% by focus group
  • Increase daily attendance rates 5% by focus group
  • Increase NDSA ELA proficiency 10% by focus group
  • Increase NDSA math proficiency 10% by focus group
  • Systematize monitoring of engagement strategies
Key Measures
  • Data meeting schedule
  • Increased documentation of plans in Panorama
  • Observations of interventionists
  • Track mastery of standards with proficiency scales
Effective Teaching
Student achievement will improve by ensuring all students receive high quality, rigorous, equitable tier one instruction focused on eliminating the opportunity gap.
Objectives
  • Implement quality T1 instruction and provide appropriate, effective T2 and T3 supports so that all students master grade-level priority standards.
  • Increase the number of teacher-directed opportunities for students to respond during instruction.
Critical Initiative
  • Apply WICOR (AVID) strategies across curricular areas.
  • Implement professional learning sessions on the impact of increasing the response rate for all students.
  • Provide teachers with coaching and feedback.
Key Measures
  • Formal observation feedback
  • Increased implementation of Marzano elements
  • Increased individualized, timely feedback
  • Increased monitoring of response rates
  • Increased student response rates
  • Instructional Rounds
  • Systematize use and monitoring of WICOR strategies
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