Pioneer Elementary School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2025-2026 Pioneer Elementary School's Continuous Improvement Plan - Copy
Time Period: 5/31/2025 - 6/1/2026
Vision

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

Mission

Pioneer Mission:  At Pioneer integrity shines, collaboration thrives, and every action impacts success.   BPS Mission: Empower EVERY Learner to thrive.

Beliefs

Pioneer Beliefs:  Integrity, Collaboration, Impact.       BPS Beliefs: Inclusion, Excellence, Innovation, and Leadership.

Learning Excellence
Bismarck Public Schools is a place where learners are motivated to grow because learning experiences are matched to their individual levels, strengths, interests, and styles.
Environmental Excellence
Bismarck Public Schools is committed to creating environments where students, staff, and families feel safe, supported, and welcome.
Personal Excellence
Bismarck Public Schools is committed to developing the whole person—supporting both students and staff in their personal growth, self-awareness, and leadership.
Objectives
  • Collaborative teams continue to interact to address curriculum, instruction, assessment, and achievement of individual students.
  • Improve Engagement outcomes through promotion of learner engagement.
Objectives
  • School safety- the students, staff, and parents perceive the school environment as safe and orderly. (HRS 1.1)
  • Successes of the school, as well as individuals within the school, are appropriately acknowledged (HRS 1.7)
Objectives
  • Every student is supported through a continuum of evidence-based practices that promote behavioral and mental health.
  • The school community will support the development of personal self through offering extracurricular activities.
Critical Initiative
  • Classroom teachers and Title specialists will implement data tracking tools for intervention that can be shared in PLC's and data reviews.
  • Collaborative teams will implement 6 week SMART goals and monitor learning weekly in order to provide timely response to learning through tier 1 instruction, interventions, and enrichment.
  • Collaborative teams will implement the TACA form for student standard score tracking.
  • Special Education will be a part of grade level data reviews. Special Education staff will track IEP goals with graphs within sharepoint.
  • Staff will pick personal element goal from Instructional Framework and teachers will self-assess their learning 3 times on building elements and personal goal chosen.
  • Strengthen teaching practices through instructional framework(2.1)
  • Yearly staff training on Student Assistance Team process. Teams consider ICEL when problem solving (Instruction, Curriculum, Environment, Learner).
Critical Initiative
  • Effective school, family and community partnerships include collaboration of families, schools, and communities in improving learning for all students.
  • Implement strategies to positively acknowledge our school as a whole, individual staff, and students individually.
  • Improve communication to all stakeholders on safety processes and procedures.
Critical Initiative
  • Establish and monitor a continuum of evidence-based interventions at all MTSS levels that result in early identification, implementation, using data-based decision making.
  • Extra-Curricular: Pioneer will continue to offer Art Club, introduce students to chess enrichment, and offer Pace Setters as a leadership option for students.
  • Provide professional learning in the area of SEL using PBIS framework.
Key Measures
  • 80% of staff self asses as a 3 on elements chosen.
  • Danielson's Framework for Teaching
  • HRS level one survey
  • Instructional Framework
  • School professional growth goal
  • Student MAP results.
Key Measures
  • Family Engagement events (Schedule)
  • Home/School communications
  • Newsletters, parent videos, power announcements.
  • Parent Survey
  • School Calendar
  • Student survey
Key Measures
  • BECA
  • MTSS tiered data and related interventions.
  • School Calendar
  • SEL grades.
  • Tier 2 BPS behavior training
Operational Excellence
Bismarck Public Schools is committed to operating with integrity, efficiency, and foresight. Operational Excellence means aligning our resources, systems, and partnerships.
Objectives
  • Implement an evaluation growth model for teachers that encompasses BPS values where staff reflect on their growth (2.4).
  • Staff will have formal leadership roles in the school allowing ownership in school decisions and operations (HRS 1.3)
  • Stakeholders will be asked to give input regularly on the operation of the school and their role as partners (HRS 1.5, 1.6)
Critical Initiative
  • All staff will have written professional goals in place.
  • Decisions made by teams, and input collected, will be transparently shared with stakeholders.
  • Ensure all staff participate in professional learning in building and personal goals chosen including coaching and observation of instruction.
  • Formal Leadership team to be created including committee team leads. Each committee will operate as a PLC with clearly defined roles and responsibilities.
  • Increase in walkthrough observations in every classroom so that every teacher has multiple pieces of observation data and feedback for reflection.
  • Staff, students, and parents take yearly surveys to monitor schools operations (BPS survey, quick data monitoring).
Key Measures
  • 80% of staff self asses as a 3 on elements chosen.
  • Annual evaluations
  • BPS Staff Survey
  • Decision Matrix
  • HRS level one survey
  • Monthly Coach/Principal/Peer Feedback Rounds
  • Parent Survey
  • Principal/Coach walkthrough schedules.
  • Professional Development Agendas.
  • Student survey
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