Map Name: 2024-2025 Starkweather High School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2024 - 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
  • Observation by staff.
  • Scheduled meetings during PD
  • Star Buddies program
  • STEM projects
  • Student engagement
  • Student engagement survey
  • Teacher observations
  • Teacher survey
  • Weekly targeted math instruction
Key Measures
  • Observation by staff.
  • Observations of attitudes
  • Observations of attitudes towards others
  • Pre and post tests
  • 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™.