Map Name: 2025-2026 Fessenden-Bowdon Elementary School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 5/1/2025 - 5/22/2026
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.
Objectives
  • 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.
Critical Initiative
  • Analyze student STAR, DIBELS, and NDA+ performance results and identify achievement gaps.
  • Develop and implement new MTSS pathways.
  • Gather and analyze student data on student engagement.
  • Provide professional development on DIBELS, UFLI, LETRS, and the utilization of STAR and NDA+ assessment.
Critical Initiative
  • Create more opportunities for stakeholder feedback.
  • Increased positive communications with parents communicating student growth and success.
  • provide PowerSchool information and potential trainings.
  • Utilize common platforms for communication with parents.
  • Utilize platforms for shared information throughout the staff for topics such as substitutes, meetings and activities.
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
  • Utilize assessment data and teacher referrals to target strategic instruction for all students.
Key Measures
  • Classroom observations
  • DIBELS Results
  • Eleot Observations
  • NDA+ Results
  • Progress monitoring.
  • STAR Results.
  • Student Engagement Surveys
  • Teacher feedback
Key Measures
  • Ancillary Staff Feedback
  • Google Chat Utilization
  • Parent/Stakeholder Survey Results
  • PowerSchool Data
  • Stakeholder Feedback
  • Teacher feedback
  • TMS System
Key Measures
  • DIBELS Data
  • NDA+ Results
  • 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.
Critical Initiative
  • Create an advisor/advisee program for upper elementary through high school
  • Develop and provide character education to all students.
  • Provide family engagement activities
  • Provide quarterly multi-grade student group opportunities
Key Measures
  • Activity attendance data
  • Climate and Culture Surveys
  • Parent/Stakeholder Survey Results
  • PowerSchool Data
  • Student Engagement Surveys
  • Student Feedback
  • SWIS Data
  • Teacher feedback
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