Round Prairie Elementary School (Closed 2023)

School Strategy Map

Map Name: Round Prairie Elementary School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 8/1/2021 - 6/1/2023
Vision

Vision: Educational Excellence

Mission

Mission: It is the mission of Round Prairie Elementary School to provide a safe, secure, equitable and engaging environment that prepares students academically in all subjects culminating in successful citizenship, leadership, career-entry, vocational training, and/or higher education.

Beliefs

Core Values: Excellence in Education; Character and Respect; School Pride; Communication and Collaboration; Safe, Secure, Healthy and Positive Learning Environment; Culturally Welcoming; Community Serving

Strategic Plan
WILLIAMS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER EIGHT STRATEGIC PLAN Williams County School District Strategic Plan Adopted: December 10, 2018 Our strategic plan is comprised of the vision, mission, core
Innovation
Innovation: Round Prairie will focus on innovative, instructional practices to engage students in all areas of learning
School Culture
Round Prairie provides Social Emotional Learning training to all students, which is aligned to our District's initiatives.
Objectives
  • Achievement increased by 1.0 GE average in Reading and Math by improving and monitoring instruction
  • Continue team-building with staff, parents, and faculty by building on strengths of constituents
  • Improve and expand school facilities by promoting new school construction
  • Increase outreach activities and community involvement through involvement and partnership with PTO
  • Increase student engagement by practicing exemplary classroom management and pedagogical excellence
  • To mentor teachers as leaders through rigorous and meaningful professional development
Objectives
  • Time-management, stem, and individual and small-group instruction that promotes peer tutoring and technology learning
  • Utilization of multi-age classroom instruction that promotes peer tutoring and technology integration.
Objectives
  • Create safe, positive, inclusive environment and positive relationships and engagements with students, family, and staff.
  • Increase students' conflict resolution and communication skills
  • Round Prairie will focus on providing a safe, respectful, inclusive, and positive learning environment for all students, staff, and families.
  • Students' self-awareness, relationship skills-building, decision-making, self-esteem building, and positive actions towards themselves/others
Critical Initiative
  • Continued professional development in the form of team-building/teacher-leader training will be provided, complete with teacher professional development plans for each teacher.
  • Family academic nights, family dinners, performance-based events, assemblies, and student award ceremonies will be increased throughout the school year that involve parents and community members.
  • Information will be disseminated as to the new facility needs that we have, resulting in greater support behind the passage of a building bond for the construction of a new elementary school.
  • NWEA and STAR tests will used for progress monitoring three times per year and monthly, respectively. Results will be examined in PLCs for any needed changes in pedagogy and parent involvement.
  • Rigorous training in developing teacher-leader will be emphasized enabling teachers to take more of a leadership role in our school, thereby increasing mutual accountability and decision-making.
  • Teachers will be certified in eleot and will collaborate and vigorously examine their instructional effectiveness in PLC meetings held on a weekly basis. Effective management will be emphasized.
Critical Initiative
  • Staff technology training that will facilitate technology integration for better implementation of GVC.
  • Time-management, stem, and individual and small-group instruction that promotes peer tutoring and technology learning
Critical Initiative
  • Instructional commitment to curriculum fidelity applied to scheduling time and teacher buy-in devoted to SEL
  • Promote love of learning, increase academic performance, self-image improvement, improve student morale, activate student voice, empower students' self-governance, positive relationships among peers
  • Students will demonstrate SEL skill mastery, leading to self-efficacy.
  • Students will role play SEL concepts related to effective conflict resolution and effective communication
Key Measures
  • An increase in parent volunteers and/or PTO member
  • Each student will demonstrate academic improvement
  • Public support of building a new elementary school
  • Teacher will become more accountable to each other
  • Teachers will become more accountable to eachother
  • Teachers will ensure that they manage their class
Key Measures
  • Academic evaluation
  • AIMS
  • i-Ready
  • NDSA
  • School schedule and teachers' lesson plans
  • Teacher observation and evaluation
Key Measures
  • Academic evaluation
  • AIMS
  • Cognia Student Survey
  • Decreased log entries
  • i-Ready
  • NDSA
  • School schedule and teachers' lesson plans
  • Student Surveys
Academic Focus
Round Prairie will utilize a Guaranteed, Viable, Curriculum, including: lesson planning, reading, math, social studies, science, SEL, keyboarding, music, STEM, and art instruction.
Objectives
  • Round Prairie will dedicate one full hour towards PLC time for teacher collaboration.
  • Round Prairie will use the district MTSS flow chart and follow best practices for all tiers of students.
  • Utilization of District approved GVC that empowers students' academic skill mastery, focus, self-control/discipline, and listening-attention.
Critical Initiative
  • All students will receive Tier 1 instruction and Tier 2 instruction in the classroom.
  • All Tier 3 students will be progress monitored and receive small group instruction outside of the classroom.
  • Teachers will create and implement common and summative assessments.
  • Teachers will meet weekly and utilize PLC time to inform instruction through data.
  • Teachers will utilize all GVC district documents such as pacing and curriculum guides
Key Measures
  • Academic evaluation
  • AIMS
  • Common Assessments
  • i-Ready
  • NDSA
  • School schedule and teachers' lesson plans
  • Teacher observation and evaluation
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