Garden Valley Elementary School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2025-2026 Garden Valley Continuous School Improvement Plan
Time Period: 7/1/2025 - 6/30/2026
Vision

Our Vision is to foster student growth and build trusting partnerships between students, staff, family, and community. An education at WBSD #7 will support our student's intellectual, social, and emotional growth.  We will provide students with an innovative curriculum supported by various 

Mission

Our Mission is to inspire and prepare students for the next level of education, work, and life.

Beliefs

 We believe in providing a safe environment where healthy relationships and student growth are priorities.

Academic Focus
Academic Focus: Garden Valley Elementary will focus on student academic progress and growth by engaging in PLC's, BARR, MTSS, GVC, to accomplish continuous improvement.
Innovation
Innovation: Garden Valley Elementary will focus on innovative instructional practices to engage students in all areas by providing student voice and choice and using project based learning.
School Culture
School Culture: Garden Valley Elementary will focus on providing a safe, connected, and problem solving school family through SEL, communication, BARR, and Conscious Discipline structures.
Objectives
  • Garden Valley Elementary School will provide a culture of collaboration to continually improve and impact instruction through PLCs and BARR.
  • Garden Valley School will use the BARR program and Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) to support all students.
  • Garden Valley will implement academic strategies to increase student performance in ND A+ assessments.
  • Garden Valley will provide all students with access to a highly effective teacher and use of GVC documents.
Objectives
  • Teachers will enhance student learning through the implementation of engaging, innovative teaching strategies.
  • Teachers will enhance student learning through the implementation of technology.
Objectives
  • Garden Valley Elementary School will provide a safe, connected, and problem solving school family for students, staff, and families.
  • Garden Valley will make it a priority to form positive relationships with all staff, students, school families, and the community.
Critical Initiative
  • Garden Valley will follow district guidelines to monitor student attendance and provide supports and interventions where necessary.
  • Grade level teams will meet every other week for a minimum of 60 minutes to discuss students in small block.
  • Grade level teams will meet for a minimum of 60 minutes every other week in PLCs to focus on the 4 essential PLC questions.
  • Grade level teams will meet weekly for grade level common planning once a week.
  • K-2: On the ND A+ assessments increase the % of students at Level 3 by 10% & decrease the percentage of students at Level 1 by 20% 3-5: Increase the % at Level 4-5 by 5% and decrease Level 1-2 by 5%
  • Panorama intervention plans will be created for all Tier 2 and 3 students in math and reading.
  • School staff will engage in the BARR process by meeting in Small Block, Big Block, and Community Connect.
  • School staff will meet in WINN Round Up groups at least once a month to design intervention groups in math and reading that are skills-based.
  • School staff will provide positive behavioral supports so that students may achieve important social/emotional and learning expectation outcomes.
  • Students will receive differentiated instruction with research and standards-based curriculum, classroom instruction by highly qualified educators who have high academic and behavioral expectations.
  • Teachers will meet every other weekly to design common assessments for students.
  • Teachers will provide lessons that align with state standards and specific learning styles.
  • Teachers will utilize district pacing and curriculum guides (GVC docs)
Critical Initiative
  • Classes will provide at least one room transformation aligned with grade level content to increase engagement and innovation in lessons.
  • "Garden Valley will hold three school transformations per year as our ""travel days"" where students will travel to various countries and apply learning."
  • School leaders and teachers will provide student voice and choice in learning.
  • Students will be given weekly opportunities to engage in STEAM learning through monthly STEAM challenges, weekly Makerspace time, as well as weekly scheduled Art and STEAM time as part of the schedule
  • Teachers will plan and implement at least one service learning project per year at each grade level that will integrate grade level standards.
  • Use of technology will include use of approved resources and apps, Chromebooks, Google apps, and Daily Paws Google meet announcements.
Critical Initiative
  • Garden Valley classrooms will start their school days with a brain smart start Morning Meeting.
  • Garden Valley Elementary will hold at least one school family assemblies each month to celebrate the school family.
  • Garden Valley staff will be supported socially and emotionally.
  • Garden Valley teachers will participate in Conscious Discipline professional development.
  • Garden Valley will host at least 2 family fun night/engagement activities each school year.
  • Garden Valley will provide an open house evening at the beginning of each school year.
  • Garden Valley will provide an opportunity for community members to be involved in the school through collaboration and communication.
  • Garden Valley will provide information regarding upcoming events via Parent Square, the school website, and social media platforms.
  • Utilize Conscious Discipline structures to promote a safe, connected, and problem solving school family (Wish You Well, Safe Place, greeting and goodbye ritual, Brain Smart Start, and friends and fam
Key Measures
  • AimsWeb Plus
  • CFA Data Digs
  • CFA's
  • Conscious Discipline structures
  • District Pacing Guides
  • Heggarty
  • Lesson Plans
  • ND A+
  • Panorama Education Plans
  • Power School
  • Power Teacher
  • School Schedule
  • Secret Stories
  • UFLI
  • WINN Round UP Notes
  • zoophonics
Key Measures
  • 21st century learning skills
  • AimsWeb Plus
  • CFA's
  • Choice boards
  • Keyboarding without tears
  • ND A+
  • Room transformaiton
  • Service learning projects
  • STEAM integration
  • STEM maker space lessons
Key Measures
  • Develop a PTO for GV
  • Holiday Party
  • Lesson Plans
  • Morning Meetings
  • Open House
  • Parent Square
  • Pictures of School and Classroom Structures
  • Professional development schedule
  • Rock Your School days
  • School family assembly pictures
  • School family award certificates
  • School Family Fun Night
  • School Schedule
  • School WebSite
  • Social Media Posts
  • SRO and community helper school visits
  • Staff get togethers
  • Student and Staff Surveys
  • Supporting PTO Initiatives
  • WINN Round UP Notes
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