Map Name: 2024-2025 Horace Elementary Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/2/2024 - 6/30/2025
Vision

West Fargo Public Schools aligns instructional practices and resources to create a nurturing, learner-centered environment. Learners are empowered to develop knowledge, skills, and dispositions to thrive in a rapidly changing world.

Mission

Educating all learners for tomorrow’s world.

Beliefs
  • Self-Efficacy & Agency 
  • Relationships 
  • Guaranteed & Viable Curriculum 
  • Assessment & Feedback 
  • Goal Setting & Reflection 
  • Pathways & Pacing 
Wellness
All learners and educators are engaged in safe and compassionate learning environments that foster collaborative relationships and their physical, social, and emotional well-being.
Choice Ready
All learners are empowered to identify their passions, skills, and purpose, set goals, and determine a personalized pathway to thrive and contribute responsibly to the local and global community.
Academics
All learners are empowered to think critically, reflect, communicate, and achieve academic proficiency across all content areas and develop their Profile of a Graduate dispositions.
Objectives
  • 100% of Horace Elementary learners will feel like they are safe, they belong, and they have a trusted adult at school as measured by learner survey.
Objectives
  • 100% of students will learn, understand, and exhibit profile of a graduate dispositions as measured by informal observations.
Objectives
  • By Spring of 2025, 75% of Horace learners will achieve one year’s growth measured by BAS and/or Star benchmark assessment (35 SGP).
Critical Initiative
  • Provide professional learning and systemic development to improve relationships between educators, learners, and their families.?
  • Utilize a tiered system of support as a framework for school- and district-wide positive behavioral supports and continue related professional learning opportunities.?
  • Utilize a tiered system of support to provide a continuum of social, emotional, and behavioral learning.?
Critical Initiative
  • Support elementary learners to acquire essential skills and participate in activities or experienced based on ND Choice Ready Framework??
Critical Initiative
  • By Spring of 2025, 70% of students at Horace Elementary will achieve typical growth (35 SGP) as measured by STAR benchmark assessment
  • Develop process for use of diagnostic assessments to determine intervention focus to support learners at Tiers 2 and 3 of intervention for literacy and mathematics.
  • Educators will focus on the critical content from the proficiency scales in their planning and instruction.???
  • Educators will use formative assessments to track the learning progress of their students and provide feedback.?
  • Establish protocols for learners to collect evidence of the profile of a graduate dispositions.?
Key Measures
  • All educators will use MTSS
  • All learners will have a weekly SEL lesson
  • Attend school assemblies to deepen POG knowledge
  • Daily connection circles participation
  • Educators will use CHAMPS as their framework
  • Panorama data will guide decision making
  • Trusted adult survey
Key Measures
  • Profile of a graduate learner of the month
  • School wide assemblies
  • School-wide incentive plan
  • Tangible incentive program
Key Measures
  • Benchmark Assessment Data System
  • PLC collaboration and data driven decisions
  • STAR assessment three times a year
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