Map Name: 2024-2025 Dickinson Middle School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2024 - 5/31/2025
Vision

Success for All

Mission

Prepare All Learners for life-long success through a safe, collaborative, and innovative learning community. 

Beliefs
  • Close the Achievement Gap
  • Ensure a safe environment
  • Promote Building-wide Engagement 
School Saftey
Build a safe, supportive, and collaborative culture.
Personalized Learning
Design a guaranteed and viable curriculum
Instruction
Ensure Effective Teaching in Every Classroom
Objectives
  • Staff will utilize Behavior grades, Positivity project, and PDSA cycles to improve culture/community within the building as seen through our SES
Objectives
  • Ensure Growth and Support to EL students through the use of specific school wide strategies and PD given.
  • Utilize SRG to implement an everyday Tier 2 time within our schedule for all content areas to have access to
Objectives
  • Effectively implement and monitor instruction in Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 classrooms by using our instructional model/goals/instructional rounds.
Critical Initiative
  • Continually implement PDSA cycles within behavior to target specific areas of struggle in the building and reward those behaviors if improved.
  • Create lessons with provided counseling curriculum that is taught to all students during Peak period.
  • Provide staff with restorative practices/circle training.
  • Utilize Peak grades in cycles to refer to behavior academies to target specific lagging behavior skills
Critical Initiative
  • Implement a system and school wide schedule that allows all content areas time to re-teach specific lagging essential standards-monitored by admin
  • Provide Professional Development to all staff in this area and monitor using the NASOT walk through
  • Through the use of specific strategies guided by the EL task force as well as Writing Revolution resource-train and implement school wide best strategies within the building.
  • Track Data and Growth on the individual students in both Math and ELA. Ensure that student's needs are being met where they are at.
Critical Initiative
  • Implement an accountability measure for staff to use to ensure staff are goal focused and assessing all of the resources provided for them to enhance their teaching practices.
  • Monitor these goals and the instructional model using the NASOT walkthrough and share data with staff. Have staff Participate in instructional rounds based upon their NASOT goal 3x a year.
  • Utilize Instructional model (NASOT chosen elements) for teachers to create a goal and work with their coach around that specific goal. Meet 3x a year with their coach
Key Measures
  • Powerschool/Schoology reports
  • student survey
  • Student to student incidents will decrease
  • Teacher survey
Key Measures
  • intervention tracking data
  • Powerschool/Schoology reports
  • state assessment
  • Student NDA+ scores will increase
Key Measures
  • calendar/goal setting sheets
  • NASOT Walk through
  • Teacher feedback form/tracking goal work
  • Teacher 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