Map Name: 2024-2025 Century Elementary School Continuous Improvement
Time Period: 5/1/2024 - 4/30/2025
Vision

Grafton Public Schools are committed to the pursuit of excellence in education and the building of sound character.

Mission

Inspiring Excellence, Building Character 

Beliefs

Grafton Public Schools believe in providing a safe and collaborative culture, effective teaching in every classroom, and teaching with a guaranteed and viable curriculum while reporting based on standards referenced  assessments.

Safe and Collaborative
Focusing on Safe and Collaborative Culture can increase student engagement and improve student achievement.
Effective Teaching
Implementing Effective Teaching in Every Classroom will develop learners' attitudes, beliefs, and skills needed for success and increase student achievement.
Standards Reporting
Implementing Standards Referenced reporting will align what is being taught and learned for increased student achievement.
Objectives
  • Develop social emotional competency that leads to increased academic engagement
  • Customize communication efforts to the meet needs of Grafton Public School stakeholders
  • Ensure learners develop positive relationships with adults who support their educational experiences
Objectives
  • Monitor and adjust predominant instructional practices throughout the school
Objectives
  • Create standards based assessments to align with proficiency scales
Critical Initiative
  • Continue and refine family engagement events
  • Continue to develop intervention and mentoring programs
  • Continued refinement of MTSS Pathways
  • Implement a system for individual goal setting and progress monitoring
  • Provide professional development in the technical adequacy evaluation tool to UVSE staff
  • Provide support to staff to recognize the need for the implementing of a positive behavioral support plan or an FBA
  • Provide teams effective progress monitoring tools for monitoring improvement of self-regulation skills
  • Review relevant IEPs for the inclusion of FBA information
  • Rollout of family education on standards referenced grading
  • Staff will communicate positive students behaviors/accomplishments to families weekly
  • Streamline and improve modes of communication with stakeholders
  • Student Success Advisor implements support when directed and needed
Critical Initiative
  • Conduct teacher evaluations and observations
  • Participate in instructional rounds and fidelity coaching cycles
  • Perform quarterly data digs to monitor student growth and adjust instruction appropriately
  • Plan and provide job-embedded professional development that is directly related to teachers' instructional growth goals
  • Provide training on innovation in the classroom
  • Utilize academic pathways and follow through with fidelity
Critical Initiative
  • Implement standards based assessments to increase student engagement with proficiency scales
  • Provide professional development for standards referenced reporting and implementation of standards referenced assessments
Key Measures
  • Counselor Interviews/Availability
  • Culture and Climate survey data
  • Data collection on specific engagement strategies
  • Data Dig Meetings
  • Every student receives a pre-addressed post card
  • Family survey
  • IEP reviews
  • Intervention times
  • LivingTree Data
  • Monitor attendance rates
  • Monitor participation rates of family events
  • SDQ Information and Surveys
  • Self-regulation progress monitoring tools
  • Stakeholder feedback data
  • Student surveys
  • Teacher observation
  • Teacher surveys
  • Team meetings scheduled
Key Measures
  • Conferencing with Instructional Coach
  • Culture and climate surveys and inventories
  • Incorporating digital teaching and learning tools
  • Network Improvement Community for a targeted group
  • Schedule meetings for teacher teams
  • Survey data
  • Teacher evaluation result data
  • Walkthrough and evaluation data
Key Measures
  • Student growth data
  • Student surveys
  • Teacher completion of proficiency scales
Guaranteed Curriculum
"Integrating Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum will improve professional practice and student performance. "
Objectives
  • Develop a formal structure to ensure learners are supported in their educational experiences
  • Implement innovative and collaborative activities to improve 21st Century skills.
Critical Initiative
  • Determine technology needs
  • Development and implementation of pacing guides for priority standards
  • Implementing proficiency scales to communicate clear and measurable academic goals
  • Monitor intervention and mentoring programs
  • Provide professional development to implement teaching strategies that focus on student-centered learning
  • Provide regular opportunities for teachers to look at student data to identify intervention needs
  • Refine and review priority standards and essential vocabulary
Key Measures
  • Class Composer data
  • MTSS Fidelity of Implementation
  • Scale Completion data after instruction
  • Student growth data
  • Student surveys
  • Teacher surveys
  • Technology needs assessment
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