Map Name: 2025-2026 Independence Elementary School 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, with 85% of students having at least three main components completed on the BARR Spreadsheet.
Objectives
  • Empower K– 5 learners to build skills and agency through intentional goal setting that prepare them to graduate Choice Ready.
Objectives
  • Educators will use PLC time and proficiency scales to achieve 85% proficiency on ELA Standard F12 and implement small group math for 80% of students.
Critical Initiative
  • Enhance curriculum and instructional practices through professional development and collaborative planning to promote health and 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
  • Support elementary learners to acquire essential skills through goal setting and tracking.
Critical Initiative
  • 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
  • Established protocol for educators on MTSS/ BARR
  • Learner well-being survey results
  • Measure learners in Tiers 2 & Tiers 3
  • Participation in events (family engagement)
  • Percentage of students in BARR spreadsheet
Key Measures
  • % of written goals in each trimester
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