Liberty Middle School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2025-2026 Liberty Middle School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 8/21/2025 - 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
  • Learners’ knowledge of SEL skills will increase through participation in Tier 1 Advisory content.
  • LMS will increase scores in all categories on the Panorama Survey by 5% for both staff and students.
  • LMS will increase the use of PBIS strategies.
  • Enhance health and wellness for learners and educators by utilizing data-driven approaches to improve systems, programs, and curricula.
Objectives
  • 70% of LMS learners will be proficient in Responsibility (CCR).
  • All 8th grade learners will be familiar with the North Dakota Choice Ready Framework before registering for classes at Sheyenne HS.
  • Empower K–12 learners to build skills and agency through intentional experiences that prepare them to graduate Choice Ready.
Objectives
  • 80% of our learners will be in Tier 1 on ND A+ Interim Assessments by the winter.
  • LMS will increase the number of learners proficient in Math by 5%.
  • LMS will increase the number of learners proficient in Reading by 5%.
  • Educators will understand the core of a PLC is the network of collaborative teams; groups of teachers who work together to improve student learning.
Critical Initiative
  • Administration will model positive climate in all staff meetings and interactions with learners/educators.
  • Learners will have iTime lessons each week in one of their core classes.
  • Panorama Survey scores
  • This will be measured through weekly CFA results, with 80% of learners surveyed indicating growth or maintenance of the learning target skills each week.
  • We have a goal of 3000 Mustang Grams sent out by the end of the school year, with every learner receiving at least 1 Mustang Gram.
  • Enhance curriculum and instructional practices through professional development and collaborative planning to promote health and wellness.
  • Implement consistent practices, enhanced by professional learning, to support organizational wellness.
  • Implement multi-tiered systems and procedures to foster safe, equitable, and supportive learning environments.
  • Implement targeted strategies to improve the physical, emotional, and social well-being of all learners.
Critical Initiative
  • Administration will receive end of year data from Amy Selberg on the proficiency of Responsibility.
  • The counseling team will schedule time with 8th grade learners to teach the Choice Ready Framework.
  • Collaborative district teams will develop protocols for a K-12 digital learner portfolio showcasing evidence of academic progress and Profile of a Graduate dispositions.
  • Support middle school learners to acquire essential skills and participate in activities or experiences based on ND Choice Ready Framework.??
Critical Initiative
  • Effective use of MTSS and BARR data will be tracked to assess the impact of instruction.
  • The impact of CPM curriculum will be monitored and shared with district office personnel.
  • We will use ND A+ Summative Math Assessment to track this objective.
  • We will use ND A+ Summative Reading Assessment to track this objective.
  • We will use NDCLIMBS Grant to give educators more knowledge around literacy and instruction.
  • We will use the data from ND A+ Interim Assessment to track this goal.
  • Collaborative PLC teams will achieve a model of effective instruction and strategies by focusing on the critical content from the proficiency scales in their planning and instruction.
  • Collaborative PLC teams will design and implement assessments that are valid, fair, and reliable to provide students with timely, actionable, and relevant feedback toward proficiency.
  • Collaborative PLC teams will use learner data to determine interventions, including short- and long-term learning targets, to support learners in Tiers 1-3 levels of intervention toward proficiency.
Key Measures
  • Number of iTimes delivered
  • Panorama SEL Scores
  • Established protocol for educators on MTSS teaming
  • Guidance for educators on safe environments
  • Guidance for educators on support allocation
  • Guiding documents for educators and families
  • Learner well-being survey results
  • Learners accessing mental health services
  • Participation in events (family engagement)
  • Staff engagement in training & program development
Key Measures
  • Course internal assessments.
  • % 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