Discovery Elementary School

School Strategy Map

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

An innovative and uplifting, family where collaboration, mutual respect and flexibility creates a culture of risk takers, lifelong learners and greatness.

Mission

Everyone's a learner, everyone's a teacher and everyone's a trailblazer blazing the trail to greatness.

Beliefs

We believe strong relationships in our schools and community will result in developing connected, innovative learners, grounded by strong character.

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 and 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 and emotional learning
  • "Implement professional learning sessions for social emotional learning. "
  • "Implement professional learning sessions on the impact of praising positive behavior. "
  • Using Panarama data, assess and improve a safe and supportive school environment and culture, specific to diversity, equity and inclusion and belonging.
Critical Initiative
  • Implement evidence-based teaching strategies that increase access for all to rigorous learning experiences
  • Implement Haggerty with fidelity
  • Notice when students are not engaged and adapt instruction
Critical Initiative
  • Create times in which staff collaborate with an Instructional Coach and peers to increase knowledge of curriculum, proficiency scales and social/emotional competency areas.
  • Provide professional development to deepen understanding of how to effectively create and/or use proficiency scales.
  • Providing a guaranteed and viable curriculum will ensure students have equal opportunity to learn rigorous content and achieve at high levels.
Key Measures
  • Alignment of instructional framework/Avid Strategy
  • Decreased demonstration of disruptive behaviors
  • Decreased restraint
  • Decreased use of seclusion & restraint-SARP forms
  • Increase of intervention evidence/Social Skills
  • Increased demonstration of positive behaviors
  • Increased FBA, BIP, Social Skills
  • Increased positive praise during each class period
  • Increased use of beh assessments (ALSUP, FBA)
Key Measures
  • Collaboration around achievement & interventions
  • Data grids and progress monitoring documents
  • Increase prof of students with T2 intervention 3%
  • Increase STAR Reading focus group proficiency by3%
  • Increase Tier 2 proficiency 3% by focus group
  • Instructional Rounds
  • Observation and coaching feedback
  • Observation feedback/Classroom walkthrough
Key Measures
  • Class meeting documentation
  • Collaboration around achievement & interventions
  • Examples of proficiency scales used
  • Increased student achievement & mastery
  • PD documentation, summary of coach notes.
  • PLC notes and Early-Release calendar
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
  • Academic Engagement and Strategies for Student Success, specific to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.
  • Create times in which staff collaborate with an Instructional Coach and peers to increase knowledge of curriculum, proficiency scales and Social/emotional competencies.
  • Design coaching feedback plan intended to improve instructional practices.
  • Implement professional learning sessions on the impact of increasing the response rate for all students.
  • Invest in resources aligned to/in support of instructional practices to deepen understanding of effective teaching strategies.
  • Professional Learning & Technology
Key Measures
  • Class meeting lesson plans and documentation
  • Data grids and progress monitoring documents
  • Expansion of 1:1 technology initiative
  • Goal reflection process (self-monitoring tools)
  • Increased individualized, timely feedback
  • Increased monitoring of response rates
  • Increased student response rates
  • Instructional Design Coaching Schedule
  • Instructional Framework
  • Instructional Rounds
  • Material inventory, resource list, pacing guide
  • Observation and coaching feedback
  • Observation feedback/Classroom walkthrough
  • PLC notes and Early-Release calendar
  • Scheduled 90-minute blocks of reading
  • Student data grid
  • Tech related PD and coaching feedback
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