Garden Valley Elementary School (Closed 2021)

School Strategy Map

Map Name: Garden Valley Elementary Strategy Map
Time Period: 5/15/2019 - 5/21/2020
Vision

Excellence in Education

Mission

It is the mission of Williams County School District to provide a safe secure equitable and engaging environment

Beliefs

 Prepares students academically in all subjects leading to successful citizenship leadership career-entry vocational training and/or higher education.  All children can learn excellence.

Behavior Management
Improve classroom and behavior management and relationship building
Raise reading/math scores
Increase students' academic achievement
Accountability
To improve teacher effectiveness
Objectives
  • Objective for Strategic Theme 3
  • Teachers will effectively manage their classrooms so as significantly decrease classroom disruption
Objectives
  • Improve MAP NDSA and STAR Reading scores by 10%.
  • Students will improve reading test scores by 10 percent.
Objectives
  • Teachers will communicate to the parents of their students on a regular basis.
  • Teacher/parent/student parent communication will increase each month of the school year on logs.
  • Teachers and parents will be mutually accountable for their effective communication.
Critical Initiative
  • Critical Initiative to achieve objective under strategic theme 3.
  • Teachers will make a minimum of 20 parent contacts per month.
  • A significant decrease in the number of classroom disruptions will result in higher student achievement.
  • Staff will be provided training on effective behavioral management techniques.
  • A 10% reduction in disciplinary referrals will result from improved teacher's classroom management.
Critical Initiative
  • School-wide NWEA STAR and NDSA reading/math test scores will improve 10% from the beginning to the end of the 2018-19 school year. Greater emphasis will be paid to reading instruction.
  • "Garden Valley Elementary School will initiate a walk-to-read and walk-to-math ""leveled"" reading program in grades K-3."
  • Parent training will be held during family dinners that will emphasize parents reading to their children at home having their children read to them. Parents will work math problems with children.
Critical Initiative
  • Teachers will notify parents via a variety of media/audio devices. Weekly newsletters District newsletters phone calls emails class email technologies will be utilized to communicate with parent
  • Teachers will communicate good news regularly to parents regarding their children's academic progress.
  • Critical Initiative to achieve Objective under Strategic Theme 2
  • Effective communication is an accountability measure that obliges parents to become active partners with teachers.
  • Both positive comments as well as suggestions for improvement will be mentioned to parents.
  • Teachers are to utilize daily a teacher/parent group email program that sends important periodic communication to parents.
  • Parent contact logs will be submitted to the principal for monitoring once per month.
  • Teachers will build positive relationships with parents based upon respect and honest communication.
  • Trust building is essential to building relationships with parents.
  • Teachers will make parent communication a regular part of their daily routine.
  • Gaining parental support will make instruction and behavior management easier.
Key Measures
  • The percentage decrease of disciplinary referrals
  • The percentage decrease of disciplinary referrals
  • The percentage decrease of disciplinary referrals
Key Measures
  • Tests results
  • MAP NDSA STAR testing
  • Test results and teacher opinion
Key Measures
  • Parent faculty and staff surveys and feedback
  • Parent/faculty/staff/student surveys
  • Parent feedback: face-to-face email and survey
  • Teachers enter communication event in their log.
  • Parent email program allows for continuous update.
  • Group Parent email program is a parent link.
  • Regular parent surveys
  • Parent on-line surverys
  • Parent and student surveys administered regularly
  • Parent/student/faculty/staff surveys
  • Peer observations with the use of Eleot.
  • Parent/faculty surveys
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