Underwood Elementary School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2024-2025 Underwood Elementary School Continuous Improvement
Time Period: 6/1/2024 - 5/31/2025
Vision

All students will graduate choice ready with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to be successful.

Mission

The Underwood Way is to educate and empower students to be responsible, respectful, and ready.

Beliefs

We Believe:

 The purpose of education is to equip students with the knowledge and

skills necessary to become active, informed, and productive members of

society. Our public schools have a responsibility to foster the growth of

intelligent and informed citizens.

Culture/ Climate
"Create and maintain a healthy learning and working environment. "
Curriculum
"Underwood Elementary School will align our curriculum to in order to offer an instructional continuum of skills and topics. "
Data
"Underwood Elementary School will align our curriculum to in order to offer an instructional continuum of skills and topics. "
Objectives
  • Create and maintain a healthy learning and working environment
Objectives
  • "Underwood Elementary School will align our curriculum to in order to offer an instructional continuum of skills and topics. "
Objectives
  • "Underwood Public school will use data to improve student learning. "
Critical Initiative
  • Build a system to target all stakeholders to improve culture and positivity in the school district.
  • Continue with a Handle with Care program implementation
  • Recruit and retain quality teachers and support staff.
  • Utilize our Comet Connections program to foster student relationships and social/emotional learning.
Critical Initiative
  • Phonemic awareness implement using Heggerty, Generation Genius to fill science gaps, Evaluate Science curriculum, Monitor Saxon Phonics for gaps in curriculum
  • Professional development in researched based best practices.
  • Staff will align content taught amongst different grade levels.
Critical Initiative
  • Elementary data committee will provide STAR, State Assessment, Fluency and Phonemic Awareness reports, and observational to staff for evaluation of learner growth.
  • Staff will use data to make decisions about our curriculum, instruction format, and student learning.
  • Underwood elementary staff will meet monthly to review data and adjust plans.
Key Measures
  • occurance of Handle w/ Care messages
  • partner activities
  • results from stakeholder surveys
  • stakeholder involvement and engagement
  • teacher recruitment
  • teacher retainment
Key Measures
  • identify and implement best practices
  • review of phonics curriculum, identify gaps
Key Measures
  • curricular and instructional adjustments
  • dissection of data for use
  • meetings attended
  • review of school data
NDMTSS
"Underwood Elementary School will align our curriculum to in order to offer an instructional continuum of skills and topics. "
Career and Technical Assi
"Underwood Elementary School will align our curriculum to in order to offer an instructional continuum of skills and topics. "
Objectives
  • "To develop structured system for tracking data and utilizing it for impact schoolwide. "
Objectives
  • Providing resources and experiences for students and staff to explore skills and careers in the Underwood community
Critical Initiative
  • Complete NDMTSS sub-committee work: Identify resources in the school setting to support teachers and learners.
  • Design lessons to teach and reinforce behavior expectations at all grade levels.
  • Develop an MTSS team and attend training
  • "Formulate a data tracking/evaluation system for student behaviors. "
  • Re-establish the MTSS process for instruction, referral , and support.
Critical Initiative
  • Engage stakeholders in our school and classes to share about their careers, education, and what is important to attend to in school.
  • Integrate career education into the K-6 grade learning environment.
  • Integrate STEM and cybersecurity materials into elementary settings.
Key Measures
  • attend training to understand MTSS
  • build a MTSS team
  • identify resources in and out of school
  • teach behavioral expectations
  • use of log entries
Key Measures
  • engagement in lesson
  • occurance of career and tech integration
  • participation on CTE committee
  • real world connection to curriculum
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