Map Name: 2024-2025 Kidder County High School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 5/11/2024 - 5/16/2025
Vision

Using collaboration and innovation, we will achieve understanding with measurable growth and continual improvement.

Mission

Empowering students to be responsible citizens and lifelong learners.

Beliefs

We believe a student's success is a collaborative effort among school, students, family, and community. We believe all students are capable of growth and improvement through an engaging and innovative environment.

Digital Technologies
If a digital platform is the future priority, then rich technological experiences will increase student engagement.
Academic Achievement
If class sizes can be reduced, curriculum is state of the art, and staff and school resources are used to differentitate instruction, then overall student academic achievement will be improved.
Choice Ready
If the goal is to graduate students that are choice ready, then emphasis must be placed on providing high school students with as many experiences and opportunities as possible to achieve choice ready
Objectives
  • Utilize and expand on current technologies to increase student engagement and learning.
Objectives
  • Using data driven decision making Kidder County will work to achieve above state average proficiency in NDSA ELA, Math, and Science scores.
Objectives
  • Expand student opportunities through scheduling, instruction, and guidance to allow for increased awareness and paths to achieve choice ready status.
Critical Initiative
  • Provide professional learning (ex: Professional Learning Communities, staff meetings) on relevant activities and technology integration.
Critical Initiative
  • Collect, review, and analyze student data regularly to provide the proper instruction to all students using the MTSS model.
  • Conduct annual curriculum review and mapping to ensure high quality instruction and curriculum is being utilized at all levels.
  • Utilize the PDSA (Plan, Do, Study, Act) process to determine our current reality, develop focus goals, implement change practices and evaluate results.
Critical Initiative
  • Provide consistant guidance to students throughout their high school career on the Choice Ready requirements and benchmarks.
  • Utilize best testing practices for the ASVAB and provide multiple opportunities for students to recieve the test.
Key Measures
  • Google doc with tech integration meeting notes.
  • School Dude ticket system for technology issues.
  • Tracking technology use to Administration
Key Measures
  • MTSS Data entry
  • Professional Learning Community (PLCs) findings
  • Progress monitoring
  • Quarterly data analysis per subject area
  • Subject level PLCs
Key Measures
  • ASVAB test will be given to 10th and 12th grade.
  • Develop a choice ready progress monitoring tool
Student & Staff Health
If the overall well-being of our students and staff is a future priority, then connecting students, staff, and families with appropriate interventions will create a better learning environment.
Stakeholder Engagement
If virtual communication is streamlined, then stakeholder perception and engagement is improved.
Objectives
  • Provide structure and resources to create a positive environment for students and staff with consistent expectations.
Objectives
  • Implementing and utilizing universal communication program to communicate with stakeholders
Critical Initiative
  • Provide MTSS Tier 1 training and resources for teachers and staff members.
  • Provide MTSS Tier 2 training and resources for teachers and staff members.
  • Provide MTSS Tier 3 training and resources for teachers and staff members.
Critical Initiative
  • Provide teachers and staff with the communication tools & training necessary to keep parents and stakeholders informed of classroom activities, school events, and important school related information.
Key Measures
  • IEP assessment for Tier 3 students
  • Intervention strategy documentation
  • MTSS Data entry
  • Percentage assessment of Tier 2 students.
  • Percentage assessment of Tier 3 students
  • RTI referrals for Tier 2 students
  • RTI/504 development and documentation
Key Measures
  • Classroom notifications on Apptegy live feed.
  • Communication through live feed and social media.
  • Regular updates to school website.
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