Kindred Middle School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2025-2026 Kindred Middle School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2025 - 5/31/2026
Vision

To collaboratively cultivate an environment that challenges learners to reach their full potential in a student-centered, community-supported environment. To achieve this, we will build authentic relationships and promote active engagement that advances learning, literacy, and life skills.

Mission

To Educate, Prepare, and Maximize Student Potential

Beliefs

Continuous reflection guides improvement, growth, and innovation, which are critical to our school's success. Establishing and maintaining positive, supportive, and respectful relationships with students, parents' colleagues, and the community maximizes student outcomes.

Engagement/Acheviment
All students will engage in a comprehensive curriculum designed to provide a variety of academic experiences.
Outreach
Foster a safe school climate by promoting a supportive academic environment while maintaining respectful, trusting relationships with stakeholders.
Professional Learning
Strive to engage all staff members in continuous professional growth.
Objectives
  • · All students will engage in a comprehensive curriculum designed to provide a variety of academic experiences.
Objectives
  • Foster a safe school climate by promoting a supportive academic environment while maintaining respectful, trusting relationships with stakeholders.
Objectives
  • Strive to engage all staff members in continuous professional growth.
Critical Initiative
  • We will continue to incorporate fine arts activities that promote creativity and self- expression
  • We will focus on providing high-quality data- driven instruction, intervention, and enrichment to meet all learners' needs.
  • We will provide a district wide framework that fosters 21st century skills and embeds the 4-Cs within teaching and learning.
  • We will provide enrichment and acceleration opportunities to meet the needs of all students.
  • We will provide financial literacy education to all students
Critical Initiative
  • We will develop and maintain a school culture and community outreach plan.
  • We will ensure a school culture with positive behavior supports for social-emotional learning and growth.
Critical Initiative
  • We will incorporate a more formal induction, coaching, and mentoring program.
  • We will provide students access to safe and effective technology integration within the traditional school day.
Key Measures
  • MTSS programming
  • Project Based Learning Units
  • STEAM, Kindred Performing Arts Center/Opportunity
Key Measures
  • Mosaic
  • Stakeholder survey, Second Step Curriculum
Key Measures
  • District Mentor Map
  • Technology Coach/Cybersecurity Integration
Long Range Planning
We will construct a financial and facilities plan that will assist the school district in proactively planning for future growth and development.
Objectives
  • We will construct a financial and facilities plan that will assist the school district in proactively planning for future growth and development
Critical Initiative
  • We will develop a long-range plan to prepare for the needs created by projected student growth.
Key Measures
  • 3-5 year budget/finance document
  • Demographic Study
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