Wishek Elementary School

School Strategy Map

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

Supporting a learning environment that continuously motivates and encourages all students to excel academically, socially, and artistically.

Mission

Wishek Public School encourages students to meet academic and social challenges with openness, enthusiasm, and a willingness to solve problems to reach their educational and personal potential in a safe learning environment.

Beliefs

Wishek Public School believes:

1. Every student can learn and grow.

2. Respect for Self and Others

3. Safe and Supportive Environment

4. Responsibility and Accountability Matter at all ages

5. Students and Staff need to have a growth mindset

Communication
If communication is a priority, then clear, respectful, and timely communication among all stakeholders to build trust, foster collaboration, and support student success needs to be consistent.
Individual Learning
We are committed to recognizing and nurturing the learning needs, strengths, and interests of every student. By providing personalized instruction, ongoing support, and meaningful challenges.
Professional Development
We are dedicated to professional development that enhances teaching practices, supports student achievement, and fosters a collaborative learning community, by investing in high-quality, relevant PD.
Objectives
  • WPS will use effective communication skills by actively listening, clearly expressing ideas, collaborating respectfully with all stakeholders.
Objectives
  • Students will engage in personalized learning by setting goals, using feedback to improve, and applying strategies that reflect their needs/strengths.
Objectives
  • Educators will engage in ongoing professional learning to improve instruction, support student achievement, and strengthen collaboration.
Critical Initiative
  • "Implement consistent, two-way communication systems(OPUS) between school(all levels), families, and staff to ensure clarity, build trust, and support student learning."""
Critical Initiative
  • Develop and implement personalized learning plans that address each student's strengths, needs, and goals to promote ownership and academic growth through the use of data collection and data days.
Critical Initiative
  • Establish ongoing, collaborative professional learning opportunities that are aligned with instructional goals and responsive to educator needs that align with TSI goals and continued improvement plan
Key Measures
  • OPUS feedback monthly
  • Parent/Teacher Feedback
Key Measures
  • Benchmark and Diagnostic Testing
  • Collaboration meetings
  • Continuation of TSI meetings
  • Data Days
Key Measures
  • Early out collaboration time
  • Follow through with TSI initiatives and changes
  • Implementation of Data Days
  • Implementation of practices from PD Days
  • MAtching up PD needs with each teacher
Social/Emotional Learning
We prioritize the development of SEL skills as essential to student success. By fostering self-awareness, emotional regulation, empathy, responsible decision-making, and positive relationships.
Technology
We prioritize the integration of technology to enhance teaching, personalize learning, and prepare students for a digital world, by providing equitable access to tools, resources, and digital literacy
Objectives
  • Students will improve social/self management and awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making to make constructive choices.
Objectives
  • Students will use technology responsibly and effectively to support learning, solve problems, and communicate in a digital world.
Critical Initiative
  • Integrate explicit SEL practices into daily routines to foster emotional well-being, positive relationships, and a safe, inclusive school environment through the use of speakers and family nights.
Critical Initiative
  • Integrate technology purposefully into instruction to enhance student engagement, support personalized learning, and build digital literacy skills through the use of IXL, Vocabulary.com, and others.
Key Measures
  • Attendance at Family nights
  • Decline of referrals due to immature behavior
  • Student response to speaker
Key Measures
  • Amount of minutes that are accumulated through app
  • Use of vocabulary quizzes and review options
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