Map Name: 2023-2024 Four Winds High School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 5/1/2023 - 4/30/2024
Vision

Problem solvers who are socially, emotionally, and physically prepared to lead healthy and productive lives

Mission

Cultivate learners who excel academically, physically, spiritually, socially while integrating community and culture

Beliefs

We believe that teachers can change lives.

We believe that learning is a lifelong process.

We believe that learning can lead to success

Collaboration
Create and implement schoolwide collaborative structures
Student Engagement
Maximize student engagement and use instructional time for rigorous, evidence-based learning activities
Personal Learning
Provide individualized academic and social-emotional supports for all students
Objectives
  • Connect and collaborate with community entities, Tate Topa Tribal School, and families
Objectives
  • Students will be actively engaged in rigorous, evidence-based learning in every class
  • Teachers will have a clear, student-friendly learning target for each lesson and communicate it to students.
Objectives
  • Students will be frequently assessed, and individualized interventions will be used to meet students' needs and keep them on track for graduation.
Critical Initiative
  • Administrators will collaborate with Tate Topa Tribal School Administrators
  • Collaborate with area businesses and agencies to provide additional learning opportunities for students
  • Collaborate with Tate Topa Tribal School for parent involvement quarterly activities
  • Continue to utilize identified external behavior and mental health supports for students
  • Increase positive teacher communication with families
  • Math and English teachers will collaborate with Tate Topa Tribal School 7th and 8th grade Math and English teachers.
  • The school board will collaborate with the Tate Topa Tribal School Board.
Critical Initiative
  • Approach each lesson with a clear learning targets and urgency to reach it and maximize instructional time.
  • Decrease the number of compliant and increase the number committed students as measured by the 2024 Cognia Student Engagement Survey
  • Decrease the number of unexcused absences by 5% in PowerSchool Attendance by April of 2024 and 2025
  • Each Teacher will post clear learning targets in their google classroom and display them at the beginning and ending of each class period
  • Know and utilize evidence-based strategies to maximize student engagement throughout each class
  • Maintain a viable curriculum for all content areas and grade levels
Critical Initiative
  • Implement trauma-informed training for staff
  • Provide post-secondary opportunities for all students
  • Provide students in need with high-quality credit recovery and alternative high school programming
  • Utilizing MTSS, identify high-need students in each grade level and design individual academic and behavior supports to ensure they can be successful
Key Measures
  • Administrator Feedback
  • Attendance at family engagement events
  • Be Legend Board Member Meetings
  • Board Minutes
  • Choice Ready Measures
  • Cooperative Learning Credits
  • Dual Credit Opportunities
  • Dual Credits
  • Graduation Rate
  • Joint School Calendar
  • Parent communication log
  • Parent Survey
  • Parent Teacher Conference Attendance Log
  • Student Performance Data
  • Student Survey
Key Measures
  • Attendance Report
  • Classroom observations
  • Curriculum Replacement Rotation Schedule
  • Google Classroom Posting
  • Learning Targets
  • Lesson plans
  • Purchase records
  • Student Engagement Survey
  • Student Survey
  • Teacher Evaluation Data
  • Weekly learning targets
Key Measures
  • Behavior Plans
  • Choice Ready Measures
  • Classroom observations
  • Classroom Reduction
  • Credits earned in credit recovery
  • Credits earned in the alternative HS program
  • Dual Credit Opportunities
  • Dual Credits
  • Graduation Rate
  • Incident Report
  • PowerSchool Behavior Report
  • Powerschool Graduation Plan
  • Professional Development Calendar
  • Star 360 Data
  • Stars Reporting
  • Student Interventions
  • Student Performance Data
  • Student Survey
  • Student surveys
  • Teacher Reflection based on Student Data
  • Teacher 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