Westhope Elementary School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2024-2025 Westhope Elementary School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2024 - 5/31/2025
Vision

Every Student, Every Chance, Every Day

Mission

We will foster kindness responsibility and integrity in students and provide opportunities to create productive citizens

Beliefs

1. We want students to be a credit to their school, friends, family, community, and themselves.  

2. #SiouxPride:  Be respectful, be responsible and be safe.

Student Success
If we implement student support structures, then we can target at-risk students.
Resources
If we maximize our resources around technology and curriculum, then we can provide the necessities to provide a quality education.
Curriculum
If we provide a rigorous, structured curriculum, then we will provide support for student readiness.
Objectives
  • Increase student proficiency in Math, ELA, and economically disadvantaged students in ELA.
  • Provide leveled support for students to target at-risk learners
Objectives
  • Establish resources for technology, curriculum, and personnel.
Objectives
  • Align our teaching to the North Dakota state standards
  • Provide resources necessary to implement active and engaged learning
Critical Initiative
  • Identify and provide support to economically disadvantaged students
  • Implement MTSS and school-wide Title I program
  • Provide a process in which at-risk learners will be provided additional support services
  • Provide more opportunities for counseling services to students
  • Provide school-wide support services for students based on individual needs
Critical Initiative
  • Establish a 1 to 1 student technology plan to put Google Chromebooks schoolwide.
  • Establish a finance committee to find budgetary solutions for updating technology
  • Provide intentional and relevant professional development to staff
  • Staff recruitment and retention
Critical Initiative
  • Establish a committee to take inventory of current resources and curriculum and budget resources
  • Establish a course catalog of available classes offered for students in grades 7-12
  • Establish a curriculum rotation for resources
  • Implement a Full Service Community School Program to eliminate barriers for learning
  • Provide staff with intentional and relevant professional development
Key Measures
  • Classroom observations
  • Formative and summative assessments
  • North Dakota State Assessments
  • Student behavior data
  • Youth Risk Behavior Survey
Key Measures
  • Inventory survey
  • North Dakota State Assessments
  • Parent surveys
  • School board survey
  • Staff inventories
  • Staff survey
  • Staff survey results
  • Student engagement survey results
  • Student surveys
Key Measures
  • Classroom observations
  • Formative and summative assessments
  • Free and reduced lunch data
  • Inventory of resources
  • North Dakota State Assessments
  • Parent surveys
  • Readiness measurement results
  • Spring Pre-Registration
  • Staff inventories
  • Staff survey results
  • Student behavior data
  • Student engagement survey results
  • Student engagment survey
  • Student survey results
  • Youth-risk behavior survey
Expectations
If we want consistent expectations for students and staff, then we will need to update handbooks, policies, and procedures.
Student Engagement
If we want to enhance student engagement activities, then we will provide more opportunities for student engagement.
Objectives
  • Provide clear expectations and procedures for students and staff
Objectives
  • Provide additional extracurricular activities and events to enhance student engagement
Critical Initiative
  • Establish committees to update handbooks, policies, and procedures
  • Identify and monitor students with low attendance patterns
Critical Initiative
  • Establish Action Team Partnership committee to increase engagement with all stakeholders.
  • Find additional opportunities and resources from outside sources to enhance student engagement
Key Measures
  • Staff survey
  • Student behavior data
  • Student survey
  • Youth Risk Behavior Survey
Key Measures
  • Inventory of resources
  • Student engagement survey results
  • Student 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