Map Name: 2024-2025 Zeeland High School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2024 - 5/31/2025
Vision

ZPS students will succeed in life beyond high school as lifelong learners and responsible, productive citizens.

Mission

Promote educational excellence, personal responsibility, and balanced growth which will enable success in life.

Beliefs

Students develop their potential; Strong academic and life skills; Desire to learn; Heritage; Teachers influence student lives; Professionalism; School as center of the community; On-going communication

Priority Standards
Identifying priority standards will improve teacher effectiveness.
Student Achievement
Implementing interventions can improve reading and math skills and student readiness for the next phase of life.
Instructional Practice
Improving instructional practices can improve student engagement and achievement
Objectives
  • Staff will map priority standards in all subjects.
Objectives
  • Each student will show growth in reading, language and math on the NWEA and state assessments.
Objectives
  • Improve students' engagement and achievement through enhanced instructional practices.
Critical Initiative
  • Provide adequate time for staff to work on mapping priority standards.
  • Provide professional development to assist in mapping priority standards.
  • Staff will begin identifying priority standards in each of their subject areas.
  • Staff will work together as a PLC on unpacking the state standards.
Critical Initiative
  • A schedule will be created that provides adequate time for math and reading interventions.
  • Closely monitor data on student reading and math competency and adjust practices and/or interventions based on data.
  • Research math interventions for grades 7-9.
Critical Initiative
  • Provide professional development aimed at improving classroom management.
  • Teachers will observe classes in another school district.
  • Teachers will practice using intentional planning strategies.
Key Measures
  • Classroom Observation
  • Curriculum Assessments
  • Curriculum Maps
  • List of priority standards
  • NWEA Achievement Data
  • Professional Development Agendas
  • Professional Development attendance
  • School Schedule
  • Teacher Survey
Key Measures
  • AIMs Web Data
  • Classroom Observation
  • Curriculum Assessments
  • NWEA Achievement Data
  • Professional Development Agendas
  • School Schedule
  • Teacher Survey
  • The Selected Intervention
Key Measures
  • Classroom Observation
  • ELEOT Observations
  • Follow up Interview
  • NWEA Achievement Data
  • Professional Development Agendas
  • Self evaluation
  • Students Engagement Survey
  • Teacher Observations
  • Teacher Survey
Personalized Learning
Personalized learning may increase student performance and engagement.
Objectives
  • Develop personalized learning opportunities for students and staff.
Critical Initiative
  • Attend NDCEL's Innovation Academy in the 2022-2023 school year.
  • Implement professional development on priority standards and schedule time for staff to collaborate and work on standards for the 2023-2024 school year.
  • Institute personalized learning for staff professional development.
  • Research personalized learning programs for students.
Key Measures
  • Classroom Observation
  • Curriculum Assessments
  • Professional Development attendance
  • Teacher 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