Mapleton Elementary School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2024-2025 Mapleton Elementary School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 5/1/2024 - 5/1/2025
Vision

Create a dynamic learning community where every individual's uniqueness is celebrated and curiosity is ignited. Foster a lifelong love of learning and empower each individual to reach their full potential so students are prepared for their middle and high school experiences. 

Mission

Inspiring all students to succeed. 

Beliefs

Mapleton Elementary School believes in creating a community where integrity and accountability are practiced, creating a nurturing and supportive environment where every child can thrive.

School Culture
Given the importance of school culture and its effects on people's behavior, schools must create a positive school culture.
Facility Management
Mapleton Elementary anticipates a need for facility expansion due to the district’s continued growth.
Resource Management
Ongoing process of monitoring, reviewing, and updating long-range financial models that can inform quality decision-making and ensure fiscal responsibility and planning.
Objectives
  • Increase community involvement.
Objectives
  • A facility assessment has been conducted to guide appropriate financial resources necessary to maintain and expand the facility
  • Develop a timeline to determine how and when to best move forward with expansion.
Objectives
  • Conduct regular demographic studies to analyze long-range growth.
  • Maximize funding opportunities
Critical Initiative
  • Develop a clear internal and external communication plan.
  • Develop parent volunteer Opportunities
  • Develop ways for the community to share resources with the school.
  • Host family engagement events for all ages of learners as well as community members.
Critical Initiative
  • Create a communication plan for public education of a building addition referendum need.
  • Create criteria for establishing when to pursue a building addition to address the need for additional classroom spaces and other associated facility needs.
  • Develop a long-range facility plan and appropriate budget to address and reduce deferred maintenance issues identified in the building assessment.
  • Plan for short- and long-term needs, creating a maintenance replacement schedule and appropriate repair budget.
Critical Initiative
  • Annual review of the Long-range financial plan to analyze trends that may need to be adjusted to ensure best practices for long-term positive financial positioning.
  • Ensure high quality staffing.
  • Optimize all levying options and bond with purpose to align with goals.
  • Promote regular participation in local government meetings.
Key Measures
  • Business participation in Career Day
  • Dates and sign in sheets when events are held.
  • Every classroom will have a parent volunteer
Key Measures
  • Building plans for maintenance
  • Community/Stakeholder meetings
  • Facility Assessment Plan
  • Keeping track of enrollment trends
Key Measures
  • Community/Stakeholder meetings
  • Keeping track of enrollment trends
Student Engagement
Our students and staff will engage in high quality student engagement techniques which will involve classroom and behavior supports.
Academic Engagement
Our students will meet or exceed individual learning goals toward achieving district standards and benchmarks for academic proficiency in all content areas.
Objectives
  • Provide a learning environment to support students needs.
Objectives
  • Create academic pathways of support.
  • Develop effective teaching strategies schoolwide.
Critical Initiative
  • Develop a comprehensive Strategic Plan.
  • Develop a schoolwide behavior support plan .
  • Develop an integrate technology plan as well as a study of AI in education.
  • Explore options for adding on to our school building.
Critical Initiative
  • Ensure all students have equal opportunities to learn content of the curriculum at a high level.
  • Increase professional learning and a comprehensive vision for best practices associated with classroom instruction.
Key Measures
  • Aimsweb data
  • Keeping track of enrollment trends
  • NDSA data
  • student engagement survey
  • teacher surveys
Key Measures
  • Aimsweb data
  • student engagement survey
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