Map Name: 2023-2024 Fessenden-Bowdon Elementary School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 5/1/2024 - 5/30/2025
Vision

Our vision, as the Fessenden-Bowdon School community, is to inspire a passion for lifelong learning through innovative opportunities that promote and empower students to become citizens who aspire to achieve their full potential.

Mission

Striving to Achieve Excellence Together

Beliefs

FBS Believes in

  • a safe and inviting learning environment
  • relationships that engage all learners
  • challenging all learners through rigorous instruction
  • creating an educational community of students, staff, families, and community members
  • empowering students to be accountable, hard-working learners
Increased Success
"Implement strategies to increase student engagement, achievement, and quality of instruction. "
Communication
Improve communication within our school and two-way communication with our stakeholders.
Data Utilization
Improve data acquisition and utilization to find root causes of weaknesses in our school.
Objectives
  • Implement strategies to increase student engagement and achievement.
  • Implement strategies to increase student engagement and achievement.
Objectives
  • Increased communication across staff and administration to improve cohesiveness.
  • Increased/improved communication with stakeholders.
  • Increased communication across staff and administration to improve cohesiveness.
  • Increased/improved communication with stakeholders.
Objectives
  • Increased skill in the acquisition and utilization of data to inform instruction.
  • Individualized/targeted instruction.
  • Increased skill in the acquisition and utilization of data to inform instruction.
  • Individualized/targeted instruction.
Critical Initiative
  • "Analyze student interim and NDSA performance results and identify areas of concern."
  • Develop and implement new MTSS pathways.
  • Gather and analyze student data on student engagement.
  • "Provide professional development on the utilization of STAR assessment."
  • "Analyze student interim and NDSA performance results and identify areas of concern."
  • Develop and implement new MTSS pathways.
  • Gather and analyze student data on student engagement.
  • "Provide professional development on the utilization of STAR assessment."
Critical Initiative
  • Create more opportunities for stakeholder feedback
  • Create platforms for shared information throughout the staff for topics such as substitutes, meetings and activities.
  • Increased positive communications with parents communicating student growth and success.
  • provide powerschool information and potential trainings
  • utilize common platforms for communication with parents
  • Create more opportunities for stakeholder feedback
  • Create platforms for shared information throughout the staff for topics such as substitutes, meetings and activities.
  • Increased positive communications with parents communicating student growth and success.
  • provide powerschool information and potential trainings
  • utilize common platforms for communication with parents
Critical Initiative
  • Continue to adapt our MTSS process to best meet the goals of the school and increase student achievement.
  • Create Assessment/Data Reviewal Calendar
  • Provide Professional Development in Data analysis and results implementation.
  • Utilize assessment data and teacher referrals to target strategic instruction for all students.
  • Continue to adapt our MTSS process to best meet the goals of the school and increase student achievement.
  • Create Assessment/Data Reviewal Calendar
  • Provide Professional Development in Data analysis and results implementation.
  • Utilize assessment data and teacher referrals to target strategic instruction for all students.
Key Measures
  • Classroom observations
  • NDSA Results
  • Peer Observation Data
  • Progress monitoring.
  • STAR Results.
  • Student Engagement Surveys
  • Teacher feedback
  • Classroom observations
  • NDSA Results
  • Peer Observation Data
  • Progress monitoring.
  • STAR Results.
  • Student Engagement Surveys
  • Teacher feedback
Key Measures
  • Ancillary Staff Feedback
  • Parent/Stakeholder Survey Results
  • Platform Data/Use
  • Powerschool Parent Access Reports
  • Teacher feedback
  • Ancillary Staff Feedback
  • Parent/Stakeholder Survey Results
  • Platform Data/Use
  • Powerschool Parent Access Reports
  • Teacher feedback
Key Measures
  • NDSA Results
  • Platform Data/Use
  • PowerSchool Data
  • STAR Results.
  • Teacher feedback
  • NDSA Results
  • Platform Data/Use
  • PowerSchool Data
  • STAR Results.
  • Teacher feedback
School Culture
Improve leadership capacity of our students and staff through improved relationships.
Objectives
  • Maintain and improve a positive school culture.
  • Maintain and improve a positive school culture.
Critical Initiative
  • Create an advisor/advisee program for upper elementary through high school
  • Provide family engagement activities
  • Provide multi-grade student group opportunities
  • Create an advisor/advisee program for upper elementary through high school
  • Provide family engagement activities
  • Provide multi-grade student group opportunities
Key Measures
  • Activity attendance data
  • Parent/Stakeholder Survey Results
  • Student Engagement Surveys
  • Student Feedback
  • Teacher feedback
  • Activity attendance data
  • Parent/Stakeholder Survey Results
  • Student Engagement Surveys
  • Student Feedback
  • Teacher feedback
The Strategy Map has been created in collaboration with The North Dakota Department of Public Instruction and Cognia™.