Starkweather Elementary School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2024-2025 Starkweather Elementary School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 7/1/2024 - 5/31/2025
Vision

To empower every student to reach their full potential

Mission

To motivate all students to become successful citizens and lifelong learners in an ever-changing world

Beliefs

Our students will achieve their full potential when we:

  • Maintain an environment with clear and high expectations using a challenging curriculum
  • Integrate technology into our learning environment
  • Foster a collaborative relationship among all stakeholders
  • Ensure students and staff feel safe and respected
Student Achievement
Foster a supportive learning environment where every student can thrive academically, socially, and emotionally.
Social-Emotional Learning
If Lake Region Special Education staff have appropriate training in developing student's social-emotional skills, students will benefit by have more effective, successful school experiences.
New Staff Development
Provide training and long-term mentoring for teachers new to the system.
Objectives
  • Increase student achievement by implementing targeted intervention strategies.
Objectives
  • Foster positive relationships and provide student access to counseling and support services, and staff professional development.
Objectives
  • Provide training and long-term mentoring for teachers new to the system to ensure teacher success.
Critical Initiative
  • Develop and implement student/teacher/peer mentorship programs.
  • Enhance student proficiency and interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics through hands-on learning experiences and interdisciplinary projects.
  • Implement real-world applications across the curriculum.
  • Improve students' math skills through engaging instruction, formative assessment, and targeted interventions.
  • Invest in curriculum, materials, and out-of-school experiences to promote real-world connections.
  • Meet regularly as a staff to analyze data.
Critical Initiative
  • Provide multicultural and disability awareness presentations to students of all grade levels.
  • Provide staff training to address social-emotional needs.
  • Recognize and celebrate students who demonstrate outstanding character and academic achievement through a student of the month program.
  • Utilize and integrate current ELA social-emotional curriculum components.
Critical Initiative
  • Create an orientation portfolio for teachers new to our district.
  • Provide formal mentoring with a mentor for teachers with less than three years of teaching experience.
  • Provide formal training for current staff to serve as mentors.
Key Measures
  • Assessment scores
  • Budget analysis
  • Classroom observation (Eleot)
  • IXL lessons and resources
  • Mentor Teacher / Student meetings
  • Observations by teachers
  • Scheduled meetings during PD
  • Star Buddies program
  • STEM projects
  • Student engagement
  • Student engagement survey
  • Teacher observations
  • Teacher survey
  • Weekly targeted math instruction
Key Measures
  • Observations
  • Observations by teachers
  • Observations of attitudes
  • Observations of attitudes towards others
  • Surveys
Key Measures
  • Classroom staff evaluations
  • Designate prof. development funds for training
  • Mentoring observations
  • New teacher checklist
  • New teacher year end survey
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