Discovery Middle School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2024-2025 Discovery Middle School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2024 - 5/31/2025
Vision

Fargo Public Schools is committed to excellence through an equitable student-centered environment supported by positive collaborations with students, staff, parents, school, and community.

Mission

Educating and empowering all students to succeed.

Beliefs

Fargo Public Schools prioritize student growth through belief in all students' potential, fostering a positive environment, delivering quality instruction by skilled educators, fostering community engagement, and using data for ongoing enhancement.

School Culture and Safety
Create a supportive and positive school climate.
Tiered Instruction
Fargo Public Schools prioritize student growth through belief in all students' potential, fostering a positive environment, delivering quality instruction by skilled educators, fostering community eng
Continuous Improvement
Fargo Public Schools will be a committed learning organization dedicated to making data driven decisions to ensure continuous improvement and accountability for the organization.
Objectives
  • Fargo Public Schools ensure equitable processes for belonging and support in conducive environments for all students and staff.
Objectives
  • Fargo Public Schools ensure equitable support for all, fostering growth with necessary resources for mastering essential learning outcomes.
Objectives
  • Fargo Schools commit to data-driven decisions for continuous improvement and organizational accountability.
Critical Initiative
  • Coordinate therapeutic mental health supports with community providers.
  • Implement and utilize district wide climate and culture surveys for students, staff, and parents.
  • Implement and utilize Pre-K–12 Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS).
  • Implement and utilize research based environmental supports and classroom management programs, such as The Catalyst Approach.
  • Implement and utilize research based protocols for school safety and emergency management.
  • Implement and utilize Restorative Practices.
  • Implement and utilize Trauma Informed Practices.
Critical Initiative
  • Implement a guaranteed and viable curriculum that provides access to grade-level standards for each student.
  • Implement a standards-based education that utilizes research-based high impact instructional strategies across all tiered learning environments.
  • Implement a whole child multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) that includes a full continuum of academic, social, emotional, and behavioral wellness supports.
  • Implement equitable district-wide processes to support outcomes so all students graduate, Choice Ready
  • Integrate technology within the curriculum to optimize each student's individual learning.
  • Utilize Professional Learning Community practices that focus on learning, collaboration, and results.
Critical Initiative
  • Engage in a comprehensive process of building and district level evaluation and accreditation.
  • Implement a comprehensive assessment system that generates a range of data about student learning and system effectiveness and uses the results to guide continuous improvement.
  • Recognize and adjust policies, practices, or systems resulting in disparate negative outcomes or opportunities for students on an ongoing basis.
Key Measures
  • ALICE Training Online Portal & Onsite Trainings
  • Crisis Prevention Intervention Report in Kickup
  • Elementary Progress Report
  • FPS Behavior Reporting Form
  • FPS Climate & Culture Survey
  • FPS Drill Reporting Form
  • FPS Mandated Reporter Training Module Report
  • FPS Suicide Training Module Report
  • North Dakota STARS Report
  • Outside Mental Health Services Workflows
  • Partner's Data Sharing Agreement Reports
  • PowerSchool Registration
  • Secondary Progress Report
  • Signed Community Partnership Agreements
  • Student Restraint Report in Cascade
  • Ukeru Training Report in Kick-up
Key Measures
  • Choice Ready Indicator Data
  • EdPlan IEP Goals data
  • FPS Climate & Culture Survey
  • FPS ELO Report
  • FPS Skills Report
  • MTSS eduCLIMBER Data
  • ND A+
  • NDDPI Level of Determination of Report Card
  • On Track for Graduation Report
  • WIDA Assessment ACCESS Growth Goal
Key Measures
  • Cognia Accreditation Documentation
  • Compliance Reports
  • Results Monitoring Report
Community/Communication
Fargo Public Schools will communicate effectively and engage with internal and external stakeholders to build community trust and support. And will communicate proactively and with transparency.
Equitable Resources
Fargo Public Schools will secure and allocate resources needed to adequately fund and carry out the strategic plan.
Co-Curricular Engagement
Fargo Public Schools will support student learning by providing students the opportunity to engage in a variety of co-curricular activities designed to enhance their overall educational experience.
Objectives
  • Fargo Public Schools foster community trust through effective, transparent communication with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Fargo Public Schools partner with nonprofits, businesses, governments, and universities to bolster student success.
Objectives
  • Fargo Public Schools will meet the needs of all students by providing equitable resources across the district.
  • Fargo Public Schools will secure and allocate resources needed to adequately fund and carry out this strategic plan.
  • Fargo Schools hire skilled staff dedicated to fulfilling the mission of educating and empowering every student.
Objectives
  • Fargo Public Schools enhance student learning with diverse co-curricular activities for a richer educational experience.
Critical Initiative
  • Create and utilize opportunities for teachers to work directly with business and industry partners to bridge school curriculums with relevant skills and experiences needed in today’s world of work.
  • Develop other non-specified external partnerships in the community to provide additional support and enrichment opportunities for students and staff.
  • Establish effective communication between school, parents, and families.
  • Maintain a relationship with the Fargo Public Schools Development Foundation for financial resources to support student and critical needs and innovative educational programs.
  • Partner with the colleges and universities to ensure that our current staff have access to professional development and college course credit programs.
  • Utilize communication systems that establish open and transparent communication channels with external stakeholders.
  • Utilize communication systems that establish open and transparent communication channels with internal stakeholders.
  • Work with local college and university teacher preparation programs to ensure that we are partners in the preparation of future teachers.
Critical Initiative
  • Analyze expenses to provide operational efficiency district-wide on an on-going basis
  • Attract and retain the highest qualified employees at all levels of the organization.
  • Communicate with state leadership in the legislature to advocate for equitable funding to support Fargo Public Schools.
  • Create a culture and work environment that makes the district an employer of choice.
  • Develop and implement an effective mentoring program for staff.
  • Develop and utilize highly effective new employee orientation programs.
  • Develop, provide, and incentivize participation in continuing education and professional development activities for all staff members as necessary.
  • Foster a safe, clean, comfortable, and sustainable environment that supports the educational mission of Fargo Public Schools by ensuring all facilities enhance student and staff well-being.
  • Implement a framework for employee performance appraisals that are based on professional growth.
  • Implement a research-based Workload Analysis Model to determine Special Education staffing needs.
  • Maintain community partnerships to stay current with city growth trends
  • Maintain effective cash flow management through sound accounting practices, investments, dept structure, and fund balances.
  • Maintain Nutrition Services, providing all students with nutritious meals regardless of socio-economic status. Ensure sustainability through budgeting, cost control, and exploring revenue sources.
  • Maintain, upgrade, and secure technology regularly. Respond promptly to help desk requests, enhance cybersecurity awareness, and align IT needs with building leadership through strategic consultations
  • Proactively recruit diverse applicants for all openings, aiming to employ highly qualified candidates reflecting the Fargo Public Schools community and student body.
  • Provide competitive compensation and benefit packages to all employees in Fargo Public Schools.
  • Utilize a data-driven continuous improvement process to enhance overall efficiencies and effectiveness as an organization.
Critical Initiative
  • Continue the Trollwood Performing Arts School to provide comprehensive arts engagement and development opportunities for students in the FM Area.
  • Enhance the learning of our students through co-curricular activity participation.
  • Provide a broad range of diverse activities for our students.
  • Provide high quality activities for FPS students.
Key Measures
  • Communications Department Website Review
  • Community Partnership Program List
  • District Newsletter School Highlight List
  • Dual Credit Participation List
  • Elementary Parent-Teacher Conference Attendance
  • FPS Development Foundation Support Report
  • FPS Media Release List
  • North Dakota Career Ready Practices Rubrics
  • School Communication Use Report
  • Secondary Parent-Teacher Conference Attendance
  • Social Media Data
  • Staff Renewal of License List
  • Town Hall Meeting List
Key Measures
  • Annual Comprehensive Financial Report
  • Departmental Review Reports
  • FPS IT Reports
  • FPS Workload Analysis Tool
  • Human Capital Reports
  • Human Capital Staff Survey
  • Maintenance Department Reports
  • Nutrition Services Reports
  • Professional Development Reports
  • State Funding for FPS Impact Report
  • Support of Strategic Priorities in Cascade
  • Time & Cost Savings Report
Key Measures
  • Co-Curricular Participation Report
  • Co-Curricular Student Participation Survey
  • PowerSchool GPA Report
  • Team Scholar Recipients Lists
  • Trollwood Performing Arts Participant Lists
  • Trollwood Performing Arts Program Exit 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