Map Name: 2025-2026 Bismarck Elementary Virtual Academy Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2025 - 5/31/2026
Vision

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

Mission

Empower every learning to thrive.

Beliefs

Our Core Values are: Excellence, Innovation, Inclusion and Leadership

Personal Excellence
Every learner is valued for their distinct characteristics, ideas, perspectives, and culture.
Environmental Excellence
Families are empowered and engaged as partners to support their child in safe, welcoming, and inclusive environments that foster student success.
Operational Excellence
Invest in secure, reliable, and scalable technology systems that enhance instruction and streamline operations.
Objectives
  • Improve access to equitable school opportunities across buildings and for each student.
Objectives
  • Offer meaningful opportunities for families to engage at both the district and school levels through events, feedback forums, and learning experiences
Objectives
  • Invest in secure, reliable, and scalable technology systems that enhance instruction and streamline operations.
Critical Initiative
  • Develop hybrid and blending learning opportunities to virtual acadmy students.
Critical Initiative
  • Collaborate with families to build personalized learning experiences.
Critical Initiative
  • Monitor fiscal impact of virtual academy.
Key Measures
  • Track Opportunities and Attendance
Key Measures
  • Percentage of personalized assessments completed
Key Measures
  • Fiscal Impact of Expenditures and Revenues
Learning Excellence
Learners will achieve at high levels of mastery.
Objectives
  • Monitor course delivery, efficiency, and effectiveness
  • Provide a virtual learning experience using a learning management system.
Critical Initiative
  • Expand learning environments for all students to include supports that promote personalized learning.
  • Review data for virtual academy student periodically and make adjustments for learning experiences as needed.
Key Measures
  • Formative and Summative Assessment Data
  • LMS Usage
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