South Middle School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2024-2025 South Middle School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2024 - 5/31/2025
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

Every Learner, Every Day

Beliefs

We imagine a school in which ALL learners find joy in coming to school every day in a caring and personalized learning environment embedded with critical thinking, communication, citizenship, and empathy.

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
  • Establish protocols for shared decision-making.
  • Implement professional learning sessions for social emotional learning.
  • Implement professional learning sessions on the impact of praising positive behavior.
  • Implement social emotional learning opportunities for adults.
  • Implement social emotional learning opportunities for students.
  • Implement training for all safety and emergency plans.
Critical Initiative
  • Identify and eliminate biases in classroom management and school discipline.
  • Implement high-dosage tutoring.
  • Increase proficiency on North Dakota State Assessment.
  • Notice when students are not engaged and adapt instruction.
Critical Initiative
  • Analyze data to improve school-wide academic and behavior support systems.
  • Select priority standards and create proficiency scales and rubrics.
Key Measures
  • Decreased demonstration of disruptive behaviors
  • Decreased restraint
  • Increased competency for safety plans & procedures
  • Increased demonstration of positive behaviors
  • Increased FBA, BIP, Social Skills
  • Increased positive praise during each class period
  • Participation in Team Leader & Student Focus Group
  • Stakeholder satisfaction as per HRS survey results
  • Student articulation of programs and procedures
  • Student articulation of self-advocacy
  • System for tracking student progress
  • Trauma & Suicide Prevention training exit tickets
Key Measures
  • Decrease suspension (ISS/OSS) - Look at groups
  • Document interventions in Panorama
  • Improve Student Engagement Survey results
  • Increase NDSA ELA proficiency by 5 % (EL)
  • Increase NDSA ELA proficiency by 5%
  • Increase NDSA math proficiency 5% by focus group
  • Increase NDSA reading prof. 5% by focus group
  • Increase use of engagement strategies in class
Key Measures
  • Coaching for Envisions Math Curriculum
  • Establish Wit & Wisdom curriculum & Training
  • Increased capacity for using MTSS data
  • System for tracking student progress
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 teachers with coaching and feedback.
  • Reinforce Marzano Instructional Framework
Key Measures
  • Changes to instructional practice
  • Increased capacity for MTSS
  • Increased individualized, timely feedback
  • Increased monitoring of response rates
  • Increased student response rates
  • Professional goal setting
  • Reflection on Instructional Rounds
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