Map Name: 2024-2025 TGU Towner High School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2024 - 6/1/2025
Vision

Learners will use innovative learning skills to graduate world ready, preparing them to be positive, productive citizens.

Mission

Creating opportunities for individual student needs

Beliefs

TGU Towner High School believes all learners can learn given equitable opportunities. It is our responsibility to prepare learners for the future, and provide a safe and secure learning environment.

Effective Instruction
If TGU educators utilize student data to guide evidence based instructional practice, learners will experience opportunities for academic growth.
Learning Enviromnent
If TGU provides a welcoming and safe learning environment, then learners will succeed.
Cybersecurity
If TGU provides learning opportunities for students to understand cybersecurity, students will have the essential skills to safely communicate and utilize technology for academic growth.
Objectives
  • Teachers will ensure that curriculum is aligned to standards and best teaching practices.
Objectives
  • Provide multiple opportunities for all stakeholders to create a safe, welcoming learning environment
Objectives
  • Provide a clear understanding of computer science and cybersecurity to create skilled digital citizens
Critical Initiative
  • Form a curriculum committee for the 2023-2024 school year.
  • Provide 21st Century Learning opportunities for all students.
  • Regular team data meetings to drive instructional practices.
Critical Initiative
  • Annual review and communication of current safety procedures.
  • Maintain a balanced advisory committee
  • Provide and improve virtual learning experiences for students.
  • Provide character-building learning opportunities
  • Provide platform for upcoming 7th and 9th grade students' orientation.
  • Utilize digital communication for all stakeholders
Critical Initiative
  • All TGU students will be provided regularly integrated lessons on computer science and cybersecurity.
Key Measures
  • Analyze multiple research base curricula
  • Attendance and notes from staff data meetings
  • Classroom collaborative learning activities
  • Community Service or volunteering opportunities
  • Curriculum Mapping
  • Curriculum/instruction observation
  • Development of cooperative skills
  • District Wide resource database
  • Instructional practice alignment to NDSS
  • Integration of technology into all content areas
  • IXL student achievement diagnostic
  • Participating in NCEC course offerings
  • Project based learning lessons
  • Regular committee meetings
  • School wide collaborative learning activities
  • STAR Renaissance Progress Monitoring Report
Key Measures
  • 1:1 technology
  • Annual Survey Data
  • Attendance 7th and 9th grade orientation
  • Attendance and participation of ATP committee
  • Attendance at Titan Family Fun Nights
  • Attendance Data
  • Collect data from Thrillshare
  • Data derived from social media account
  • Integration of technology into all content areas
  • Participation of CTE advisory committee
  • Powerschool Data
  • Random Acts of Kindness
  • Site specific Crisis Manuals
  • Student Participation Data in Google Classroom
  • Survey data
  • TGU Lead Group
Key Measures
  • Community Service or volunteering opportunities
  • Development of cooperative skills
  • Regular committee meetings
  • Technology usage
Innovative Learning
If TGU provides opportunities for students to be actively engaged learners, students will have the essential skills for future success.
Stakeholder Engagement
If TGU provides stakeholders opportunities to engage in the overall well-being of all TGU students, learners will experience the importance of contributing to their community.
Objectives
  • Students will be engaged learners, preparing them to be CHOICE ready
Objectives
  • Provide multiple learning experiences for students to engage with all external stakeholders.
Critical Initiative
  • 7th and 8th Grade students will be provided the opportunity to participate in the 21st Century Before & After School Program
  • Students will be offered opportunities to graduate ND CHOICE Ready
  • Students will be provided learning opportunities using Google Classroom, ND Center for Distance Learning and other modalities.
  • Students will be provided social emotional, problem-solving, and decision-making supports.
  • Students will be provided with multiple course opportunities
  • Students will have the opportunity to participate in co-curricular, extra-curricular, group and club offerings.
  • Students will participate in various grade appropriate assessments
Critical Initiative
  • Students will be provided with resources to aide in the well-being of the whole child.
Key Measures
  • ACT testing data
  • ASVAB
  • Attendace of clubs offered
  • Choice-Ready Document
  • City Span data
  • College and career exploration
  • College and Career Fairs
  • Community Service or volunteering opportunities
  • CTE Reports
  • Electives
  • Four-Year Rolling Career Plan
  • Google Classroom
  • Google classroom access
  • Graduation
  • Learner GPA
  • ND Civics Test data
  • NDSA data
  • Office Referral Data
  • Online course offerings
  • Participation Spreadsheet
  • Power School Data
  • PowerSchool
  • Powerschool Data
  • Project Based Learning Involvement (21st Century)
  • Regular counselor access
  • School attendance
  • STAR Assessment Data
  • State Reports to NDHSAA
  • Student Goal Setting and Planning
  • Student Led Conferences
  • Student Participation Data in Google Classroom
  • Student Portfolios
  • Technology usage
  • Utilize multi-media from a variety of sources
  • Work Keys
Key Measures
  • Community Service or volunteering opportunities
  • Curriculum Mapping
  • TGU Lead Group
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