Turtle Mountain Community Middle School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2025-2026 Turtle Mountain Middle School Continuous Improvement Plan. - Copy
Time Period: 6/1/2025 - 5/31/2026
Vision

Educate and nurture the whole child to empower choices and pathways for success.

Mission

Prepare students for a changing world while preserving our culture and heritage.

Beliefs

As a school system, we are committed to the 7 Teachings in everything we do: Wisdom, Love, Respect, Bravery, Honesty, Humility, Truth

STUDENT SUCCESS
If we cultivate an environment where students receive data-driven personalized instruction, community support & inclusion, then we will empower students w/skills to become successful lifelong learners
SCHOOL CULTURE
If we foster a supportive climate, then students & staff will experience a stronger sense of belonging, leading to enhanced collaborations, engagement, and overall success for all stakeholders.
COMMUNICATION
If we improve communication then it strengthens school support systems, enriches partnerships, and enhances trust, collaboration, and student success.
Objectives
  • Work together with all involved parties to use data to create personalized learning experiences that are engaging and positive.
Objectives
  • Create a school environment where every child succeeds, staff are prepared, and everyone feels welcome and heard.
Objectives
  • Implement communication strategies to strengthen support systems, enrich partnerships, enhance trust, and overall success.
Critical Initiative
  • Develop, implement, and evaluate data-driven professional development.
  • Ensure accountability in academics using classroom observations.
  • Provide Social Emotional Learning support to students.
  • Utilize a standard-based curriculum & common assessments across all schools K-12.
Critical Initiative
  • Create student centered learning environments.
  • Decrease staff absenteeism to increase student academic and social emotional growth.
  • Encourage positive relationships and collaboration with all stakeholders.
  • Increase leadership visibility & accountability.
  • Promote celebrations across all environments for students and staff (ie: academics, attendance and behaviors)
Critical Initiative
  • Create community-wide school communication plan.
  • Implement community-wide school communication plan.
  • Provide ongoing communication training for stakeholders.
Key Measures
  • Assessment Framework
  • Curriculum Maps
  • PLC meeting agenda & minutes.
  • SEL MTSS Tiers
Key Measures
  • Attendance Rate Report
  • Communication Plan
  • District and BIE staff attendance reports
  • Fastbridge & NDA +
  • Fastbridge Sabers, My-Sabers, & behavior Reports
  • Flyers, attendance report
  • Observe 4-Success
  • Parent contact logs/signin sheet
  • Partnership Agreements
  • Staff Survey
  • Stakeholder Survey
  • Student engagement survey
Key Measures
  • Agenda & minutes to reflect approval.
  • Checklist/tracker for communication.
  • Community School Professional Development Plan
  • Community School Professional Development Plan.
  • Community-wide school events calendar
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