Map Name: 2024-2025 Valley 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

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 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 emotional learning.
  • Implement professional learning sessions on the impact of praising positive behavior.
  • 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 evidence-based teaching strategies that increase access for all to rigorous learning experiences.
  • Notice when students are not engaged and adapt instruction.
Critical Initiative
  • Schedule collaboration opportunities for instructional coach and teachers to increase professional capacity to use proficiency scales and rubrics.
  • 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
  • Increased student evaluation of essential skills
Key Measures
  • Decrease office referrals 5% by focus group
  • Incr engagement survey results by focus group
  • Incr Star CAT math proficiency 10% by focus group
  • Incr Star CAT reading prof 10% by focus group
  • Increase daily attendance rates 5% by focus group
  • Increase NDSA ELA proficiency 10% by focus group
  • Increase NDSA math proficiency 10% by focus group
  • Systematize monitoring of engagement strategies
Key Measures
  • Data meeting schedule
  • Increased documentation of plans in Panorama
  • Observations of interventionists
  • Track mastery of standards with proficiency scales
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 WICOR (AVID) strategies across curricular areas.
  • Implement professional learning sessions on the impact of increasing the response rate for all students.
  • Provide teachers with coaching and feedback.
Key Measures
  • Formal observation feedback
  • Increased implementation of Marzano elements
  • Increased individualized, timely feedback
  • Increased monitoring of response rates
  • Increased student response rates
  • Instructional Rounds
  • Systematize use and monitoring of WICOR strategies
The Strategy Map has been created in collaboration with The North Dakota Department of Public Instruction and Cognia™.