Community Alternative High School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2023-2024 Community Alternative High School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 5/1/2023 - 4/30/2024
Vision

GFPS will be a place where all stakeholders collaborate to achieve academic excellence in an alternative setting

Mission

GFPS will provide an environment of educational excellence that engages all learners to develop their maximum potential

Beliefs

We promote Another Road to Success in High School for at-risk learners

Safe and Supportive
A positive school climate that prioritizes social and emotional learning, belonging, well-being, and safety protocols will ensure everyone is safe and supported at school.
Achievement for All
"Ensuring access and belonging for all students while eliminating disparities based on students' diverse racial, ethnic, and economic backgrounds will increase student academic achievement. "
Guaranteed & Viable
Implementing a guaranteed and viable curriculum will ensure students master grade level content standards.
Objectives
  • Create and implement comprehensive social emotional learning and mental health initiatives.
  • Increase the amount of behavior-specific praise that the teacher provides for the classroom, for groups of students, and for individual students.
  • Provide a positive school climate that prioritizes social and emotional learning, belonging, well-being, and safety protocols.
Objectives
  • Ensure access and belonging for all while eliminating disparities based on student groups to increase academic achievement.
Objectives
  • Implement a guaranteed and viable curriculum to ensure students master grade-level priority standards.
Critical Initiative
  • Implement professional learning sessions for social emotional learning.
  • Implement professional learning sessions on the impact of praising positive behavior.
  • Life Ready menu implementation via Advisory period
  • "SEL Equity Mental Health Special Ed"
Critical Initiative
  • Identify and eliminate barriers preventing all students from accessing grade level content standards
  • Notice when students are not engaged and adapt instruction
Critical Initiative
  • PLC work
Key Measures
  • Decreased demonstration of disruptive behaviors
  • Decreased restraint
  • Increased demonstration of positive behaviors
  • Increased FBA, BIP, Social Skills
  • Increased positive praise during each class period
  • Life Ready Menu Completion
  • Student Engagement and SEL survey results
Key Measures
  • Increase completer rate 20% male
  • Increase completer rate 30% Native American
  • Increase credit earned per instructional block 10%
  • Increased skill in all content areas
  • ND Student Engagement Survey
  • Systematize use & monitoring engagement strategies
Key Measures
  • Increased mastery of content area standards
Effective Teaching
Student achievement will improve by ensuring all students receive high quality, rigorous, equitable tier one instruction focused on eliminating the opportunity gap.
Objectives
  • Implement quality T1 instruction and provide appropriate, effective T2 and T3 supports so that all students master grade-level priority standards.
  • Increase the number of teacher-directed opportunities for students to respond during instruction.
Critical Initiative
  • Implement professional learning sessions on the impact of increasing the response rate for all students.
  • provide access to required and elective classes for credit earning potential for students
Key Measures
  • Credits earned per instructional block
  • Increased monitoring of response rates
  • Increased student response rates
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