Map Name: 2025-2026 Oakes Elementary School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2025 - 5/31/2026
Vision

Our vision for the future is to create personalized educational experiences that will prepare each student to develop the skills essential for their success. These skills include critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity.

Mission

Achieving excellence by educating all students for tomorrow's world.  

Beliefs

Respect, genuine relationships, growth mindset

Empowered Educators
If our educators are expected to lead personalized, rigorous classrooms, we must ensure they have time, training, and coaching in core instructional strategies and technology integration.
Personalized Learning
If personalized educational experiences are a priority, we must improve our system-wide use of formative data to guide flexible instructional pathways.
Family Engagement
If strong relationships and respect are foundational beliefs, we must expand family and community partnerships to make learning more relevant, visible, and connected to life beyond school.
Objectives
  • Support educators in delivering rigorous, learner-centered instruction through sustained professional learning.
Objectives
  • Build teacher capacity to use real-time assessment data (STAR, Empower, formative checks) to personalize instruction and track learner progress.
Objectives
  • Strengthen family and community engagement in learner growth and achievement.
Critical Initiative
  • Implement coaching cycles aligned to school-wide instructional priorities.
  • Offer ongoing training in technology integration, inclusive practices, and deeper learning.
Critical Initiative
  • Develop learner-led goal setting practices tied to performance benchmarks and standards.
  • Establish regular data cycles in PLCs focused on learner growth and instructional response.
Critical Initiative
  • Improve academic communication through parent dashboards in Empower and STAR.
Key Measures
  • % of certified staff participating in coaching cyc
Key Measures
  • % of PLCs using STAR/Empower data in bi-weekly cyc
Key Measures
  • % of families accessing Empower
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