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

Together, our strong relationships built inclusive, collaborative, and innovative environments that create agency and inspire a passion for learning, excellence, and discovery. 

Mission

Empower Every Learner to Thrive. 

Beliefs

Excellence

Inclusion 

Innovation 

Leadership 

School Culture
BHS will focus on engaging all staff, students, and parents in current and future plans and activities.
School Wide Literacy
BHS will focus on implementation of our instructional framework.
Social/Emotional Learning
BHS will focus on providing physical and emotionally safe environments.
Objectives
  • Create an environment where all students and staff feel valued.
Objectives
  • All students at Bismarck High School will experience high quality instruction on a daily basis.
  • Establish a schoolwide focus on literacy to increase the number of students proficient on ACT
Objectives
  • Provide programming and interventions to support student well-being.
Critical Initiative
  • Intentional opportunties for staff to get to know each other as professionals and peers.
  • "Provide opportunities for staff to develop relationship building skills. "
Critical Initiative
  • Continue to develop collective teacher efficacy. Our goal is to see implementation of the instructional framework 90% of the time.
  • Continue working towards daily implementation of the BHS Instructional Framework.
  • Develop collective efficacy through a voluntary, interdisciplinary team of teachers (BHS Think Tank) focused on improving schoolwide student literacy
  • Focus professional learning on instructional framework, including examining evidence within interdisciplinary groups of teachers
  • Focused learning opportunities for staff to develop and refine instructional strategies.
  • Implement instructional framework focused on best practices for increasing literacy proficiency
  • Implement PLC/department goals that embrace an area of our instructional framework
  • Team focused goals around the instructional framework and the PLC cycle.
Critical Initiative
  • Continued implementation of site based mental health services.
  • Implement Resilience Breakthrough (Tier 1) and Why Try (Tier 2).
  • Implement Three Rs (Respect, Responsibility, Relationships) through instructional and daily modeling.
  • Refine School Within A School to assist students in need of social/emotional health supports.
  • Teachers and related service providers will implement TEACCH strategies for students who are visual learners by developing and implementing a framework to ensure active student engagement in learning.
  • Teachers of students with emotional disabilities providing education in resource rooms will engage in coaching and feedback sessions provided by Safe and Civil Schools.
  • Weekly SAT meetings to develop systems and structures to improve behavioral programming.
Key Measures
  • HRS Level 1 Survey
  • Learning Walks
  • Lunch and Learns
  • Staff Outings
Key Measures
  • Choice Ready Report
  • Eligibility Reports
  • EWS Report
  • HRS Level 1 and 2 Survey Results
  • Missing Assignment Report
  • PLC Agendas/Notes
  • Staff Wellness Opportunities
  • Walkthrough Data
Key Measures
  • Behavior Plan
  • Cohort Graduation Rate
  • Program surveys
  • Shared data
  • Student Engagement Survey
  • Why Try assessments
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