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

We provide diverse and meaningful experiences for all learners in a safe and supportive environment by fostering curiosity, inquiry, and innovation.  We grow and learn together by embracing change and taking risks.

Mission

The mission of Grand Forks Central High School is to empower students to be contributing and informed citizens who are prepared for the challenges of the future.

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
  • Assess and improve a safe and supportive school climate and culture.
  • Implement professional learning sessions for social emotional learning.
  • Implement professional learning sessions on the impact of praising positive behavior.
  • "Provide social-emotional learning opportunities for students "
Critical Initiative
  • Continue to develop and implement our MTSS process to help all students achieve success.
  • Implement evidence-based teaching strategies that increase access for all to rigorous learning experiences.
Critical Initiative
  • Identify guaranteed vocabulary for priority standards.
  • Use PLC time to identify priority standards and collaborate around student achievement.
Key Measures
  • Decreased demonstration of disruptive behaviors
  • Decreased restraint
  • Decreased use of seclusion and restraints (SARP)
  • Gratitude Month and student focus groups
  • HRS Level 1 Surveys
  • Increase use of behavioral assessments ALSUPs/FBA
  • Increased demonstration of positive behaviors
  • Increased FBA, BIP, Social Skills
  • Increased positive praise during each class period
  • Increased use of intervention evidence -BIP, PlanB
  • Youth risk behavior survey
Key Measures
  • Incr grad rates for low income from 69% to 72%
  • Incr IEP grad rates from 55% to 60%
  • Incr Native American grad rates from 56% to 61%
  • Incr school grad rate from 84% to 87%
Key Measures
  • Common Assessments
  • Curriculum Maps/Essential Learning Documents
  • Instructional Playbook
  • PLC Data Warehouse
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
  • Apply Avid strategies
  • Collaborate with district coordinators to increase student support (MTSS and AVID).
  • Implement professional learning sessions on the impact of increasing the response rate for all students.
  • Provide teachers with coaching feedback to improve instructional practice.
  • Using our Portrait of a Graduate as our vision, we will align Avid Strategies with our Instructional Playbook
Key Measures
  • Goal implementation and reflection
  • Identify and place WICOR Strategies in playbook
  • Instructional Playbook
  • Instructional Rounds feedback
  • Iobservation results
  • Marzano observation feedback
  • Observations
  • Panorama Survey Results
  • Student Engagement
  • Training completed and Implemented
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