Map Name: 2023-2024 Nathan Twining Elementary 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

Growing together to enrich the world.

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 & 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
  • "Establish and practice protocols for emergency situations. "
  • 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.
  • Implement school-wide expectations and procedures.
  • Provide social emotional learning opportunities for students
Critical Initiative
  • "Implement evidence-based teaching strategies that increase access for all to rigorous learning experiences "
  • "Seek student input on their academic experience and sense of belonging, and take action on feedback "
Critical Initiative
  • Create methods of providing teachers with coaching feedback designed to improve instructional practices
  • Develop professional development and support systems to ensure teachers understand and can implement the framework
  • Provide professional development to teachers to deepen understanding of proficiency scales and how to use them with students.
Key Measures
  • Character Education Assemblies/Monday Morning Open
  • Character Education/PBIS Posters
  • Citizenship Rubric
  • Classroom observations
  • Dates from mental health impacts sheets
  • Decrease use of seclusion and restraint procedures
  • Decreased demonstration of disruptive behaviors
  • Decreased restraint
  • Deployment Tree/Celebrate Month Military Child
  • Emergency drill logs
  • Emergency Manual
  • Increased demonstration of positive behaviors
  • Increased FBA, BIP, Social Skills
  • Increased positive praise during each class period
  • PBIS Implementation and Powerschool Log Entries
  • PLC Notes/Discussion
  • Quick Reference emergency guide (flip chart)
  • SEL District Trainings
  • Signage promoting social emotional wellness
  • Sources of Strength and Second Step lessons
  • Staff/Student/family survey results
  • Student handbooks
  • Student of Quarter/Thunderstruck/Lightning Cards
  • Sunshine Committee to support staff
  • Topics from delivered lessons from class mtgs.
Key Measures
  • Increase STAR math proficiency by 5% for all
  • Increase STAR reading proficiency by 5% for all
  • Students will utilize portfolios to monitor data
  • Teacher/Student meetings to review personal data
Key Measures
  • Building PLC and PD notes and agendas.
  • Classroom Observations and Coaching Feedback
  • Develop a schedule for instructional coach.
  • District PD training outline and attendance
  • Early Release Agendas and Notes
  • Observation and coaching feedback
  • PD Documentation
  • Proficiency Scale Implementation
  • Student Portfolios
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 "
  • Analyze data to improve student or school wide academic and behavior support systems - MTSS A and B
  • Establish protocols for shared decision making
  • Implement process to establish and maintain PLC
  • Implement professional learning sessions on the impact of increasing the response rate for all students.
  • Innovation and Creativity
  • "Professional Learning & Technology "
Key Measures
  • Classroom observations
  • Data meetings to reflect on next steps for TSGI
  • Increased individualized, timely feedback
  • Increased monitoring of response rates
  • Inst. Design Coach models strategies
  • Instructional Framework
  • Marzano Compendiums Log
  • MTSS folders for students
  • MTSS Student Plans
  • PLC Calendars - early dismissals
  • PLC Meeting notes and agenda
  • Professional development and coaching feedback
  • Staff Surveys
  • Student Engagement Survey
  • Teacher Portfolios
  • Teacher representation on committees
  • Team leader/department meeting notes
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