Rickard Elementary School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2025-2026 Rickard Elementary School Continuous Improvement Plan - Copy
Time Period: 8/1/2025 - 5/31/2026
Vision

Foster student growth and build trusting partnerships between students, staff, family, and community. Education will support our student's intellectual, social, and emotional growth. We will provide students with an innovative curriculum supported by a variety of co-curricular activities.

Mission

Inspire and prepare students for the next level of education, work, and life.

Beliefs

At Rickard Elementary we believe that Rickard ROCKS! We are respectful and responsible. We own our actions. We choose to learn. We show kindness to everyone and we believe that safety comes first.

Academic
Academic: Rickard Elementary will focus on student academic progress and growth for math and reading.
Innovation
Innovation: Rickard will focus on innovative instructional practices to engage students in all areas of learning.
School Culture
School Culture: Rickard will focus on providing a safe, respectful, inclusive and positive learning environment for all students, staff and families.
Objectives
  • Develop systems and provide time to implement those systems in order to support student learning and increase academic achievement.
Objectives
  • Recognize and implement innovative practices to enhance student learning and increase engagement and achievement
Objectives
  • Provide a safe, inviting, inclusive and positive environment where positive relationships are built with all students.
Critical Initiative
  • Guaranteed Viable Curriculum will lead the teaching and learning process.
  • Implement the BARR System, Building Assets Reducing Risks
  • MTSS Tiered instruction is provided by WINN groups.
  • Participation in Grade-level PLCs weekly
  • Teachers will use multiple assessments to assess student learning throughout the year.
Critical Initiative
  • Empower students and staff by providing opportunities for leadership in various ways throughout the building.
  • Provide staff and students with current, STEM based materials and activities that are relevant to 21st Century learning skills.
  • Recognize staff and students who have displayed innovative thinking as Innovators of the Month at monthly Roadrunner Rallies.
Critical Initiative
  • BARR Small Block and Big Block meetings are held weekly and will focus on ALL students throughout the school year.
  • Increase family and community engagement activities and participation.
  • Rickard staff members implement SEL practices through BARR and Conscious Discipline initiatives. PD opportunities are provided to staff to ensure that best practices can be implemented.
Key Measures
  • BARR Spreadsheet
  • Curriculum Guides, Pacing Guides
  • GVC Feedback Observation Form
  • i-Ready, AIMS, ND A+ Interim, ND A+ Summative
  • MTSS (Big Block BARR) agendas and spreadsheet
  • PLC Agendas
Key Measures
  • Attendance reports from Powerschool
  • Cognia Student Engagement Survey
  • i-Ready, AIMS, ND A+ Interim, ND A+ Summative
  • Panorama SEL Survey
  • Vital Network Survey for staff
Key Measures
  • BARR Spreadsheet
  • Behavior Data-Number of positive office referrals
  • Cognia Family Engagement Survey
  • MTSS (Big Block BARR) agendas and spreadsheet
  • Power School log entries
  • Track number of people attending the family events
  • Utime data
  • Vital Network Survey for staff
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