Map Name: 2025-26 Dakota Prairie High School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2025 - 5/31/2026
Vision

Provide an innovative educational environment that promotes engagement, empowerment, and excellence.

Mission

Provide an innovative eduational environment that empowers lifelong learners.

Beliefs
  • Provide an innovative environment for student growth
  • Create relationships that promote student engagement
  • Empower students to be transition ready
  • Deliver effective, rigours, and relevant instuction
  • Engage in data-driven decisions for school improvement and student growth
Digital Literacy
If DP educates and encorporates ditatal literacy, then students will be empowered to be lifelong learners.
Student Growth
If DP Enhances instruction and curriculum, then student growth will be achieved.
Climate and Culture
If DP fosters a safe and healthy school climate and culture, then student will be able to learn and grow.
Objectives
  • Educate and encorporate Digital Literacy
Objectives
  • Students will be Transition and Graduate Choice Ready
Objectives
  • Promote a Safe and Healthy School
Critical Initiative
  • Conduct Engagement Surveys (Students 7-12)
  • Conduct Inventories Survey (Staff, Students 7-12)
  • Create a formalized process to assess programs/curriculum.
  • Develop a process to align curriculum.
  • Meeting individual academic needs
  • Prepare students through choice ready guidelines
  • Provide professional development for staff
Critical Initiative
  • Conduct Climate & Culture Survey(Parents, Staff, Students 7-12)
  • Continue safe and healthy programs
  • Provide professional development for staff
  • Review and update our safety plan
Key Measures
  • Academic data
  • Choice ready committee minutes
  • Curriculum material calendar
  • Priority standards checklist.
  • Reduce student to teacher ratio
  • Referral data
  • Scope and Sequence
  • Survey data
Key Measures
  • Administrative observation
  • Review Updated Safety Plan
  • Safety drill data
  • Student referral data
  • Survey data
Essentional Skills/LRSE
If school staff have appropriate training in developing student’s essential skills, students will benefit by having more effective, successful school experiences and be graduate choice-ready.
Objectives
  • LRSE will provide training to staff to assist with understanding and implementing tools to address student social-emotional needs...
Critical Initiative
  • Continue to provide guidance on effective standards based social-emotional goals and progress monitoring for students to determine effectiveness of interventions and plans with MTSS Behavioral Pathway
  • Engage stakeholders in the community to provide wrap-around support and increase access to needed behavioral health services for students.
  • Provide PD in current topics related to social emotional health, including supporting district initiatives and unit programs.
  • Provide staff to schools for mental health, behavior health and social-emotional training as requested.
  • Provide training and guidance in Functional Behavior Assessments and effective individualized behavior plans.
  • Support other mental health training and PD opportunities in our area schools.
  • Support Staff attendance at school-wide and area-wide workshops to promote social-emotional learning.
Key Measures
  • Document staff training provided/supported LRSE.
  • Document training opportunities in unit and school
  • Documentation of FBA/Behavior Intervention Plans
  • Documentation of staff attendance at PD workshops
  • File monitor identify effective progress ED goals.
  • Survey data
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