Sterling Elementary School

School Strategy Map

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

Empower all learners to be choice ready and succeed in a changing world.

Mission

Providing all students with the knowledge and skills necessary to become active, informed, and productive adults.

Beliefs

Sterling Public School believes that all students have the ability to become engaged 21st-century learners.

Physical Environment
"Building Facilities Maintenance and Improvement "
Resources
"Curriculum Cycle "
Technology
Ensuring students have leaning activities to use technology to prepare them for their furutre jobs/careers.
Objectives
  • Explore way to provide a safe place for learning for all students
Objectives
  • Improve overall enrollment by continuing to implement pre-kindergarten program.
  • To have consistent and viable K-12 curriculum to communicate content for all teachers and learners.
Objectives
  • Determine long-range tech needs of the district, including the infrastructure to support those needs
Critical Initiative
  • Develop a long term construction plan that takes into account student growth and needs
  • Develop a long-term maintenance schedule that considers the life expectancy of the buildings and campus.
Critical Initiative
  • Provide professional development to implement consistently across all grade levels
  • Review and update curriculum to align with state and federal standards
  • Update and replace school curriculum as needed or every 10 years
Critical Initiative
  • "Develop a yearly technology cycle that takes into account the staff and student technology needs "
  • Develop and implement a technology curriculum to ensure all students are proficient users for technology in all curricular areas.
  • Implementing a repair schedule to keep technology current and up to date
  • Provide PD to staff to effectively use technology provided.
Key Measures
  • Classroom size
  • Maintenance Plan
  • Maintenance Schedules
  • Surveys
Key Measures
  • A comprehensive curriculum replacement plan
  • Classroom lesson plans
  • Classroom Observations
  • Correlation to current ND standards
  • Professional Development schedule
Key Measures
  • Classroom Observations
  • Engagement surveys
  • Formative Assessments
  • Replacement schedule
  • Surveys
  • Teacher Evaluations
  • Technology Inventory
  • Technology maintenance plan
Student Achievement
High academic standards, giving students personalized learning with goals and targets.
Special Education
Student Achievement
Objectives
  • Track trends in student performance and prepare information showing a summary of student test data.
Objectives
  • Personnel will develop an assessment and intervention system that all students in BCSE can access.
Critical Initiative
  • Assess students throughout the school year
  • Make school board, stakeholders and staff aware of student data
Critical Initiative
  • All students in K- 3 will receive assessments that will determine what additional resources beyond the classroom are needed to help the student reach his/her greatest reading potential.
Key Measures
  • Classroom Observations
  • Data Reports
  • Formative Assessments
Key Measures
  • Student achievement
  • Successful academic transition to HS
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