Mary Stark Elementary School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2024-2025 Mary Stark Elementary School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 5/1/2024 - 4/30/2025
Vision

Every student will graduate Choice Ready; ready for college, a career, and life.

Mission

Provide students with learning experiences to help them develop the skills necessary to be productive citizens.

Beliefs

Schools should equip students with skills to communicate, collaborate, think critically, and enhance their creativity.  We shall provide students with a safe, caring, supportive, and respectful learning environment.  Schools, parents and the community shall inspire our students to succeed.

MTSS
Meeting the needs of each student academically and socially-emotionally is accomplished best within a continuum of services, outlined in tiers (tier i, ii, iii)
PLC
Professional learning communities are the heart of improving instructional practices and meeting the needs of each student. Educators learn and lead from each other.
Social and Emotional
"Students and adults will engage in healthy, positive, and respectful relationships leading to increased accountability and positive choices. "
Objectives
  • Develop a comprehensive MTSS system for ELA, math, and SEL
Objectives
  • Support a robust PLC process to support educators and instruction.
Objectives
  • Provide a healthy culture and environment that fosters social and emotional growth
Critical Initiative
  • Continued development and implement Tier II, and III pathways in ELA, math, and SEL
  • Continued implementation of a data management system (Educlimber) to monitor MTSS Pathways
  • Implement a new Tier 1 mathematics instructional model and curriculum
Critical Initiative
  • Begin building a district instructional model
  • Continually monitor PLC effectiveness through instructional coaching and administrative support through evaluation
  • Implement protocols for quality PLCs
Critical Initiative
  • Continued professional development using Love and Logic
  • Design family events to maximize parental engagement
  • Having a staff Love and Logic Library
Key Measures
  • EduClimber Training for Admins
  • EduClimber Training for Educators
  • EduClimber Training for Instructional Coaches
  • ELA Pathways developed for each school
  • Improved NDSA Math scores
  • Math pathways developed for each school
  • SEL pathways developed for each school
Key Measures
  • Coaches meet with PLC teams 2x a month
  • Completed principal/coaching training
  • Instructional coaches trained on protocols
  • PLC teams complete PLC checklist
Key Measures
  • Counting office referrals
  • Love and Logic resources available
  • Use strategies shown to increase engagement
Personalized Learning
Students entering the workforce must be adaptable life-long learners. To better prepare our students, we believe a focus on personalized learning that is in tune with students needs and aspirations.
Objectives
  • Provide more personalized learning opportunities to support the unique learning needs of students.
Critical Initiative
  • Create a system for housing common formative and summative assessments within curriculum maps and blueprint courses
  • Develop academic essential learning for all classes in Mandan
  • Develop proficiency scales to align with essential learnings
  • Math: Students will increase their growth of numbers, number system skills, and operations
  • Provide high impact, differentiated learning to promote successful educational experiences for all students housed within blueprint courses (anchor activities)
  • Reading: students will increase their reading comprehension
  • Writing: Students will increase their writing skills in the areas of narrative, informational, and persuasive writing.
Key Measures
  • Academic scales will be identified and uploaded
  • All grades incorporate interactive read alouds
  • Compile list of staff PD opportunities
  • Completed blueprint courses
  • Document of standards will be shared with teachers
  • Essentials will be identified and updated
  • Give/score pre and post-assessments in all areas
  • Grade 2-5 informal running records 1x trimester
  • Grade 3-5 create scope and sequence for Morphology
  • Grade 3-5 create scope and sequence for Phonics
  • Increased graduation rate for SPED students
  • K-1 utilize UFLI progress monitoring
  • K-2 will use UFLI Foundations
  • Number Talks 3 times per week
  • One hour writing block per day
  • Teachers will follow Lucy Calkins curriculum
  • Teachers will have 1 hour literacy block
  • Word Problem Work 2 times per week
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