Pingree-Buchanan Elementary School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2025-2026 Pingree-Buchanan High School
Time Period: 6/1/2025 - 5/31/2026
Vision

Empowering students to thrive and reach their full potential.

Mission

Creating a safe, inclusive environment that inspires lifelong learning and fosters healthy relationships.

Beliefs

The Pingree-Buchanan School Districts believes all students have a desire to learn and can learn.

Culture
Culture
Professional Learning
Professional Learning
Staffing
Hire highly effective teachers and fill staff vacancies to best provide for the needs of our students with a full staff.
Objectives
  • Provide opportunities to develop a positive culture among staff, students, and the community.
  • Develop a Code of Conduct that aligns to the three guidelines: Be Safe, Be Respectful, and Be Responsible.
  • Provide opportunities to develop a positive culture among staff, students, and the community through planned recognition.
Objectives
  • Hire highly effective teachers and fill staff vacancies to best provide for the needs of our students with a full staff.
  • Provide effective professional development and training for all employees of the district to continually improve in areas of need.
  • Provide effective professional development and training for all employees of the district to continually improve in areas of need.
Objectives
  • Increase student opportunities and meet needs through strategic hiring and partnerships that allow individualized learning.
Critical Initiative
  • A monthly all school meeting (lyceum) will be scheduled/implemented with all students, aligned to the themes identified in our SEL curriculum, and teaching student expectations (Grades 6-12).
  • English department will develop a Capstone project for junior and senior students that meets the criteria for the Choice Ready graduation standards.
  • Provide Clear Expectations for student learning and citizenship for Pingree-Buchanan students through monthly class meetings, announcements, and administrator class visits.
  • Provide Clear Expectations for Teachers for curriculum planning and implementation of professional development initiatives as outlined in the teacher job description and through staff meetings.
  • Add a 'We Are Proud' item on our School Board agenda each month recognizing individual students, teams, and/or staff members celebrating our community's greatness.
  • Develop visuals of our Code of Conduct, teachers conduct Passport For Learning walks to teach students our Code of Conduct.
  • Elementary counselor will use Second Step curriculum to provide weekly 21st Century Skill lessons in which students and classroom teachers will participate.
  • Elementary students will participate in a monthly lyceum with an instructional theme aligned to the Second Step curriculum. The focus will be on student recognition, celebrations, and expectations.
  • One staff meeting per month will be dedicated to using our Code of Conduct in our teaching, PB Standard, addressing behavior challenges.
  • Provide team-building opportunities for staff and students, recognize students monthly for demonstrating those qualities outlined in our PB Standard.
Critical Initiative
  • Have all teachers new to the profession be a part of the ND RISE mentoring program
  • Have board members attend the NDSBA Be Legendary School Board Training
  • Hire a Full-time counselor who will work with the secondary principal on forming Choice Ready pathways for students and a plan to assess student interests/needs.
  • Hire a K-12 Physical Education teacher to introduce a high performance training class for our student athletes grades 6-12th grade to increase offerings that will contribute to student retention.
  • Professional Development opportunities for our Reading and Math Curriculum
  • Schedule monthly faculty meetings with emphasis on the introduction of Catalyst whole group student engagement strategies.
  • Three Learning Walks will be scheduled and learning teams formed with a combination of administration and teacher leader members. Emphasis will be on student engagement strategies.
  • Create a professional development plan for teachers that meets the need of our district as a whole and is personalized for each teacher. Monthly Leadership Team meetings will develop this.
  • Elementary teachers and administration will identify a guaranteed viable curriculum to be used for reading and math, including mandatory assessments.
  • Introduce the Danielson model for teacher evaluation, provide teacher education on domains, complete self-evaluation, and all certified staff set goals aligned with our strategic plan.
  • K-3 classroom teachers will participate in the Science of Reading professional development with NE Cooperative.
  • Schedule three professional learning walks(October/January/April) to collect big picture observation data on instructional engagement practices used in all of our classrooms.
  • The Superintendent will form a District Improvement leadership team that will be responsible to analyze district data, identify critical initiatives, and develop a District Strategic Plan.
  • Train all teachers to use Catalyst nonverbal communication and student engagement strategies. Introduce, practice, and plan for incorporation into our daily instruction. One staff meeting/month.
Critical Initiative
  • Hire a counselor to implement a elementary 21st Century Citizenship curriculum to reduce. the overall number of student incidents of behavior.
  • Hire a full time Music/Theater arts teacher and Physical Education Health teacher to increase offerings across schools. Block preparation time at the elementary to allow collaborative planning time.
  • Hire a qualified Pre-School teacher to offer the Best in Class Pre-K program in Pingree-Buchanan schools.
  • Partner with the ND Personalized Learning Network to explore a middle level approach that focuses on differentiation, student choice, and student outcomes.
Key Measures
  • Climate & Culture Survey
  • Create Expectation Posters for all locations
  • Create Leadership Committee
  • Provide SEL class through Counselor
  • Update Staff Job Descriptions
  • Updated the Mission, Vision, and Beliefs Statement
  • Climate and Culture Surveys
  • Incident Data Collection
  • Monthly recognition of at least two students/class
  • Participation Numbers
  • Senior Exit Survey Information
Key Measures
  • Add Choice Ready plan for students in our SIP
  • Attendance of Be Legendary School Board Training
  • Develop and adopt an SEL curriculum
  • Fill the position
  • IXL Training
  • Learning Walk Data - K-12
  • LETRS Training
  • Participate and Complete ND Rise Mentoring program
  • Participate and Complete ND Rise Program
  • Renaissance Star Training
  • STAR Data Professional Development
  • Attend ND SoR Literacy Summit
  • Completion of ELA curriculum training
  • Completion of Science of Reading Training
  • Incident Data Collection
  • Increase district budgetary capacity.
  • Increase student performance on ND State math.
  • Increase student performance on ND State reading.
  • Instructional observation data collection.
  • Participation in PD opportunities.
  • School Board approved District Strategic Plan
  • Self-evaluation and formal evaluation
  • Student Data Collection
Key Measures
  • Add as course offering in student curriculum guide
  • Climate and Culture Surveys
  • Fulfilment of staff vacancy.
  • Incident Data Collection
  • Middle level plan for implementation 26-27 DIP
  • Participation Numbers
  • Student Data Collection
Personalized Learning
Provide students with personalized learning opportunities.
Objectives
  • Provide students with personalized learning opportunities to tailor to their individual needs and aspirations.
Critical Initiative
  • Elementary classroom teachers will be organized in PLC teams that will focus on differentiated instruction in the form of Breakout instructional groups for math and phonics/vocabulary.
  • Provide intensive intervention for those students identified as one year or more below grade level. - Daily reading and math (4-5 times per week - 30 minutes) - Title One interventionist
  • Provide tier two literacy instruction (2-3 times per week- 20 minutes) for those students identified as a slightly below grade level in our fall reading screening (K-5).
Key Measures
  • NDSA Assessment Results
  • STAR Assessment Results
  • Student Data Collection
  • Student Observations
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