Map Name: 2025-2026 Midkota High School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2025 - 5/31/2026
Vision

To create a thriving educational environment for all students, parents, staff, and community.

Mission

Inspiring Minds, Building Character, Shaping Futures

Beliefs

We value commitment to excellence, life-long learning, strong relationships, and community.

School Culture & Climate
Implement school-wide behavior support system that supports ethical values, respect and responsibility.
Student Engagement
Provide staff with professional development to promote engaging and diverse instructional strategies to enhance student learning.
Student Support
Strengthen staff capacity to analyze data, identify student needs and tailor interventions. Creating targeted support and improve student outcomes.
Objectives
  • Celebrating students and staff successes, fostering a culture of appreciation and positivity.
  • Positive Student Behavior
  • Strengthening Staff Morale
Objectives
  • Enhance Real-World Skills
  • Promote Diverse Instructional Strategies
  • Support Social Emotional Engagement
Objectives
  • Build Foundational Data Literacy
Critical Initiative
  • Create framework for staff appreciation and recognition.
  • Create student recognition and celebration frameworks.
  • Inplement a structured recognition program for staff and students.
  • Provide professional development that supports staff well-being and encourage work-life balance.
  • Provide social emotional learning and positive behavorial support systems to build character and resilence.
Critical Initiative
  • "Create quarterly professional collaboration time ""data digs"" to discuss and refine learning strategies, personalized learning and differiate instruction. "
  • Establish mentorship and peer-support programming to support all stakeholders, strengthening holistic student support.
  • Expand Career and Technical Education Course Offerings
  • Expand experiential learning models
  • Implement a K-12 SEL Program based on CASEL five and provide professional development.
  • Increase community partnerships through the Work-based Learning Progam
  • Increase mental health resources through community partnerships.
  • Locate and implement technology integration and differentiated instruction professional development.
Critical Initiative
  • Analyze of district and state assessments to monitor student progress.
  • Conduct an standards review to align report cards and assessments to the North Dakota standards.
  • Develop a long-term professional development plan based off of the strategic plan.
  • Establish a curriculum review cycle
Key Measures
  • Changes in student achievement & behavior.
  • Data from employee absences
  • ELEOT Observations
  • Log participation data
  • Log professional development
  • Log student participation data
  • Marshall Teacher Evaluation data
  • PTC data
  • Staff evaluations
  • Student Engagement Survey
Key Measures
  • Add FACs programming
  • Create a professional development matrix
  • Create calendar events and activities
  • Create volunteer opportunties for partnerships
  • ELEOT Observations
  • Growth as measured by NDA+ Interim Assessments
  • Implement additional stakeholder activities
  • Implement OSHA training certifications.
  • Implement prevention programs-health courses
  • Increase community partnerships
  • Interview alumni and track post-secondary outcomes
  • Log student participation data
  • Marshall Teacher Evaluation data
  • MTSS-A plans
  • NDA+ performance data
  • Professional development training
  • Provide tele-health resources
  • Student Engagement Survey
  • Teachers lesson plans
  • Track PowerSchool incident data
  • Use Parents Lead materials
Key Measures
  • Changes in student achievement & behavior.
  • Growth as measured by NDA+ Interim Assessments
  • NDA+ performance data
  • PD opportunities are tailored to instructor needs.
  • PD topics align with district improvement plan
  • Professional development training
  • Teachers lesson plans
Operational Excellence
Utilize data-driven decision making to guide long-term planning efforts.
Objectives
  • Budget Alignment
  • Facility Planning
  • Planning for the Future
Critical Initiative
  • Conduct annual facility assessments to prioritize maintainence and upgrades.
  • Conduct enrollment studies and demographic analysis to anticipate future district needs.
  • Conduct regular data driven financial reviews to align financial resources with district goals.
  • Create a policy assessment process to ensure future growth and sustainability.
  • Develop long-term strategic plans that align with district goals and community needs.
  • Integrate technology and infrastructure improvements into facility planning.
  • Priortize instructional programming, student support services and staff development.
  • Secure funding through community partnerships and grants to support facility and program improvements.
Key Measures
  • Archive financial review data
  • Collect data on student programs and services
  • Conduct walk throughs with board and custodian
  • Create a professional development matrix
  • Create a sponsor directory for donation purposes
  • Create and maintain inventory rotation lists
  • Create building maintainence priorty matrix
  • District Budget Data
  • ELEOT Observations
  • ISTE Standards review
  • Midkota Foundation Operational
  • Powerschool, Insights data
  • Review of Stars, Insights and PowerSchool data
  • Review student performance data
  • Student Engagement Survey
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