Map Name: 2025-2026 Minto High School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 5/1/2025 - 4/30/2026
Vision

Minto Schools will provide a superior and comprehensive educational experience for the students and families we serve.

Mission

Challenging today's students by inspiring and empowering them for tomorrow's world.

Beliefs

Minto Schools will provide a safe and challenging learning environment where students can grow in a community which supports an innovative academic curriculum with opportunities to participate in extra-curricular activities.

Choice Ready
Graduate choice ready students
Effective Teaching
Implementing effective teaching strategies to engage students that is guided by data collection
Safe and Collaborative
Promoting a safe and collaborative culture that encourages a positive and structured learning environment.
Objectives
  • Our optimal goal is to graduate students that are choice ready and prepared for their future.
Objectives
  • Implement, monitor, and adjust instructional practices.
  • Increase the use of effective teaching strategies.
Objectives
  • Improve stakeholder communication.
  • Improve student behavior.
  • The success of the whole school, as well as individuals within the school, are appropriately acknowledged.
Critical Initiative
  • Implement strategies and pathways for students to graduate choice ready.
  • Parent/student communication on the choice ready process and the steps we take to assure we reach our goals for each student.
  • Students meet with counselor to develop 4 year rolling plan.
  • Students provided opportunities for college/career exploration.
Critical Initiative
  • Continue the development of our prioritized standards in our unit plan development.
  • Implement a new observation tool that meets our needs and provides authentic feedback to monitor instructional practices.
  • Instructional practices will be monitored and adjusted based on assessments, progress monitoring, data collection, and PLC time to make changes where needed.
  • Monitor effective teaching with new observation tool. Once effective add Marzano elements to increase overall effectiveness of teachers.
  • Provide professional development to all staff on effective teaching strategies and provide PLC time to collaborate on best practices.
Critical Initiative
  • Adjust handbook to provide clear/concise expectations. Include incentives and consequences to achieve behavior outcomes.
  • Continue to monitor and implement behavior pathways with fidelity.
  • Implement a formal process for all stakeholders to provide input regarding the optimal functioning of the school.
  • Provide more opportunities for stakeholder feedback
  • Recognizing student and teacher success with celebrations and utilizing our school media platforms on routinely basis.
Key Measures
  • 4 Year plan
  • Choice Ready Family Meetings
  • Choice ready monitoring
  • Goals/Plans after high school
  • Student enrollment within each program
Key Measures
  • Assessment outcomes
  • Identification of strengths and growth areas
  • Learning Progression Maps
  • Observation Data
  • Observation tools
  • PLC notes
  • Unit Plans
Key Measures
  • Award Banquets
  • Extracurricular recognition
  • Incentive Data
  • Schedule of school community events
  • School website
  • Staff activities
  • Student Culture and Climate surveys
  • Student of the Month
  • Survey data
  • SWIS Forms
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