Map Name: 2025-2026 Cheney Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 8/18/2025 - 5/29/2026
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 (GVC)
  • 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
  • Enhance health and wellness for learners by utilizing data-driven approaches to improve systems, programs, and curriculum.
Objectives
  • Empower K–12 learners to build skills and agency through intentional experiences that prepare them to graduate Choice Ready.
Objectives
  • Educators will understand and effectively implement PLCs to improve student learning.
Critical Initiative
  • Celebrate diversity through cultural events, curriculum, and assemblies.
  • Consistently follow a Code of Conduct and implement a multi-tiered system that provides a safe, inclusive, and supportive learning environment.
  • Explicitly implement targeted lessons through a daily advisory to improve the social emotional well-being of all learners.
  • Implement an Advisory Committee to enhance curriculum and SEL through professional development and collaborative planning. Student voice and participation - involve students in school decision-making
  • Implement the BARR (Building Assets, Reducing Risks) in all 6th grade teams in order to build intentional relationships between adults and students.
  • Use data, such as counseling Minute Meetings, surveys, focus groups, to understand learners’ needs.
Critical Initiative
  • Community Engagement - partner with families and local organizations to support student well-being. Encourage volunteerism and community service among students (i.e. Fill the Dome).
  • Provide middle school learners with a Careers course, so they can be exposed to a variety of career pathways and help them begin to understand future academic and career opportunities.
  • Support middle school learners to acquire essential skills and participate in activities or experiences based on ND Choice Ready Framework (i.e. Career on Wheels).  
Critical Initiative
  • Admin/coaches will provide teachers with professional development to learn HOW to analyze and norm data (i.e. assessments, student work, behavior trends).
  • Collaborative PLC teams will design and implement common assessments that are valid, fair, and reliable to provide learners with timely, actionable, and relevant feedback toward proficiency.
  • Collaborative PLC teams will determine and implement effective instructional strategies by focusing on the critical content from the proficiency scales in their planning and instruction.
  • Collaborative PLC teams will use learner data to determine interventions and extensions to support ALL learners (Tiers 1-3) toward proficiency or beyond.
Key Measures
  • Established protocol for educators on MTSS teaming
  • Guidance for educators on safe environments
  • Guidance for educators on support allocation
  • Learner well-being survey results
  • Learners accessing mental health services
  • Participation in events (family engagement)
Key Measures
  • % involved in sports and activities in MS
  • 6-7 Career on Wheels
  • 7- Career & Tech Class
  • 7- Counselor Career Lessons
  • 8- Girls in Engineering (NDSU)
  • Benchmark data progress timeline for portfolios
  • MS Career experience to Virtual Reality
Key Measures
  • Guidance for educators on standards-based grading
  • Guiding documents for educators on assessment
  • Guiding documents for educators on feedback.
  • NDA+ data and grades (DR2)
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