Map Name: 2025-2026 Zeeland Elementary School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2025 - 5/31/2026
Vision

ZPS  students will succeed in life beyond high school as lifelong learners and responsible, productive citizens.

Mission

Promote educational excellence, personal responsibility, and balanced growth which will enable success in lie.

Beliefs

Students develop their potential; Strong academic and life skills; Desire to learn; Heritage; Teachers influence student lives; Professionalism; School as center of the community; On-going communication.

Priority Standards
Identifying priority standards will improve teacher effectiveness.
Student Achievement
Implementing interventions can improve reading and language skills and student readiness for the next phase of life.
Stakeholder Engagement
Work with family and community stakeholders to foster alignment with the institution's priorities and guiding principals will provide a unified vision for Zeeland Public School District.
Objectives
  • Staff will use and adjust previously mapped priority standards in all subjects.
Objectives
  • Each student will show growth in reading and language usage and Math on the NWEA and AIMs Web assessments.
Objectives
  • Formalize opportunities with stakeholders to foster alignment with the institution's priorities and guiding principals.
Critical Initiative
  • Monitor use of priority standards by teaching staff.
  • Provide adequate time for staff to work on mapping priority standards.
  • Provide Professional Development to assist in continued use of priority standards in curriculum planning.
Critical Initiative
  • A schedule will be created that provides adequate time for reading and math interventions.
  • Closely monitor data on student reading and language usage and math competency and adjust practices and/or interventions based on data.
  • Continue Amira usage in grades K-6
Critical Initiative
  • Hold a minimum of one public meeting on the future of the district.
  • Include parent representative on leadership team which determines improvement initiatives.
Key Measures
  • Curriculum Map
  • Individual curriculum assessments
  • Lesson Plans
  • List of priority standards
  • NWEA Achievement Data
  • Professional Development Agenda
  • School schedule
  • Teacher Observations
Key Measures
  • AIMS Web Data
  • Amira
  • MTSS
  • NWEA Achievement Data
  • School schedule
Key Measures
  • Leadership Team Minutes
  • Leadership team roster
  • Minutes from Public Meeting(s)
  • Schedule of Public Meeting(s)
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