Map Name: 2024-2025 Powers Lake High School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2024 - 5/31/2025
Vision

Developing respectful, accountable, inclusive learners is the heart of student success at the Powers Lake School.

Mission

Developing students to make a positive impact in society.

Beliefs

At the Powers Lake School we are dedicated to fostering a learning environment that values communication, integrity, respect, critical thinking and the social skills to be successful in life.

Academic Achievement
Academic Engagement is a deliberate effort to engage students where they are academically and encourage them to use all tools available to them to get ready for life after school.
Technology Readines
Powers Lake Public School District understands the need of basic technology skills in education and society. The district will provide the opportunity to develop lifelong skills using technology.
School Culture & Climate
The Powers Lake Public School is committed to creating a school culture and climate that promotes positive connections for all students, staff, and community members.
Objectives
  • Choice Ready Framework
  • Data collection and analysis
  • Guaranteed and viable curriculum
Objectives
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) Professional Development
  • Integration of Technology
Objectives
  • Building positive relationships with and among staff
  • Building positive relationships with and among students.
Critical Initiative
  • Be consistently trained on research-based curriculum that aligns with state standards.
  • Develop a curriculum schedule and process for deciding on new curriculum and reviewing old curriculum.
  • Ensure Choice Ready Indicators are met upon graduation.
  • Use the MTSS guidelines to identify struggling and advanced students and provide needed interventions or enrichment.
Critical Initiative
  • Develop a computer science and cybersecurity integration and implementation plan to ensure introduction to foundational computer science and cybersecurity knowledge by July 1, 2024.
  • Implement professional development to inform teachers on AI so that they understand how it can be implemented in the classroom.
Critical Initiative
  • Further develop Social Emotional Learning (SEL) opportunities to contribute to an initiative-taking approach to mental health.
  • Powers Lake School will increase extra and co-curricular activity participation to align to student interest.
  • The Powers Lake School will promote teamwork, celebrate successes and recognize peers to promote a positive school culture.
Key Measures
  • Completion of Career Planning in RUReady
  • Create a rotation cycle for replacing curriculum.
  • Curriculum will be scored with effective rubric.
  • Fall to Spring performance on the MAP and STAR
  • Grade level team meetings held every 6-8 weeks 6-8
  • Review of curriculum will be done every 3 years.
Key Measures
  • Implementation of AI by staff.
  • Implementation of cybersecurity plan.
  • Research a cybersecurity curriculum to adopt.
  • Special Ed department using Amira with students.
Key Measures
  • Form a system to track and monitor participation.
  • Increase relationship building activity for staff
  • PD training through PMHCA grant.
Community Engagement
The Powers Lake School is committed to strengthening collaboration and communication with families and the community to build stronger relationships and increase opportunities that help students.
Objectives
  • Collaboration
  • Communication
Critical Initiative
  • Enhance the involvement of family and community stakeholders by providing engagement activities.
  • Improve communication with families by utilizing a common communication structured system for the school, classrooms, and extra-curricular activities.
Key Measures
  • All extra & co-curricular activities on Remind app
  • Data tracking at family engagement activities
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