Map Name: 2023-2024 Badlands Elementary School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: Not Specified
Vision

To provide a safe and caring environment that empowers students to exhibit the determination and resiliency to meet high-quality and relevant curriculum challenges.

Mission

The MCPSD #1 will empower every student to succeed today and in the future.

Beliefs

Our students, who are the focus of all of our decisions:

  • Aspire to Excellence - We value putting forth the best effort in all pursuits.
  • Resilience - Preparing students to successfully navigate life's challenges.
  • Progressive - Community and its commitment to provide for future generations.
Culture and Climate
Badlands Elementary will provide a safe and civil environment for student success.
Resource Management
Badlands Elementary will secure and allocate the resources needed to fund and carry out the strategic plan.
Academic Excellence
Students at Badlands Elementary will engage in a comprehensive curriculum designed to provide various academic experiences.
Objectives
  • Badlands will provide positive school experiences for all students to participate and excel in diverse & high-quality extra & co-curricular activities
  • Community Engagement
  • Parental Involvement
  • Social-Emotional Learning
Objectives
  • Long Range Planning: Badlands will secure and allocate all resources necessary to fund and carry out our strategic plan effectively and efficiently.
  • Long Range Technology Planning
Objectives
  • 21st Century Literacy Grant
  • Greater Math Grant
  • Guaranteed and viable curriculum with K-12 alignment
  • Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) are grade-level teams who work together as educators to share ideas to enhance their best teaching practices.
Critical Initiative
  • Badlands Building Level Team will schedule and plan a monthly event schedule for students and staff to improve attendance, share communication and create more high quality events.
  • Create a family engagement plan for our school.
  • Develop a building level community focus group to help promote the strategic plan and provide input to the school district.
  • Develop community business partnership to promote students choice ready skills
  • Increase communication with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Increase the number of students and families participating in all types of school activities based on attendance & data.
  • Invite community members in parent engagement activities
  • MCPSD#1 will create a District Family Engagement Plan for our schools. Events will be vetted based on family, student & staff attendance and direct reflection on the events.
  • Provide more access to programs, counseling, assistance and resources for staff and students.
  • Review and research approaches for parent-teacher conference model to encourage parent participation.
  • To adopt an effective identification system and protocol for students social and emotional needs.
  • Utilize a research-based curriculum (2nd Step/Project 11) to follow scope and sequence and provide support for K-5 students.
Critical Initiative
  • Badlands will manage the facility and financial resources so that teaching and learning is directly supported by these funding sources.
  • Create a technology plan to increase the alignment with district goals.
  • Manage financial resources in a way that directly supports teaching and learning.
  • Yearly identification of devices which need to be upgraded with attention to vetted software and programming for improving student learning outcomes.
Critical Initiative
  • Advance our PLC Meetings from focusing on learning targets & assessments to reflective practices around instruction. Data will continue to be reflected upon & used to focus instruction on gaps.
  • Badlands will use the Comprehensive Literacy State Department grant to create a comprehensive literacy program to advance literacy skills, including pre-literacy skills, reading and writing.
  • Badlands will utilize the Greater Math Grant to support a comprehensive blended math program to improve math proficiency. Tighter Alignment will be implemented for scaffolded success.
  • Professional Development will continue to be well-planned, sequential, and focus on best practices for continued student achievement. Unit Plans and Learning Targets will continue to be utilized.
  • Provide a guaranteed and viable curriculum to all students in all content areas and courses.
  • Several Interventionists per building will work with each assigned grade-level of students who are in the lowest quartile and Badlands CHAT process. Progress monitoring will be key to growth.
  • Staff will be immersed in the Science of Reading skills with full staff training in Voyager-Sopris LETRS. Students are targeted for phonemic awareness skill needs through progress monitoring, etc.
Key Measures
  • Advertisement Flyers and Attendance Data
  • BLT Agendas and Staff Meeting Sharing
  • Communication Plan
  • Community Involvement
  • Community Participation Rate
  • Counselors, Family Facilitators, Curriculum
  • Culture & Climate Surveys, Staff Work, Feedback
  • Daily Attendance
  • End of the Year Parent Survey
  • Feedback Survey published for each event
  • Improvement in Behavior Results
  • Lists, attendance & photo opportunities w/students
  • Observations & Feedback from the classroom
  • Parent Participation Logs
  • Parent-Teacher Conference Participation Rate
  • Participation data, reflections, and future ideas
  • Participation Rates
  • Powerschool Entries for Behavior
  • Powerschool Log Entry Data
  • Results of Parent Perception Survey
  • SCUTA Reports
  • Try student-led conferences, fairs/events
  • Using feedback to adjust or continue each event.
Key Measures
  • BLT focus work bi-weekly
  • Complete Long Range Facility Plan
  • Completion of Long Range Technology Plan
  • Consistent and sustainable technology training.
  • Planning of Events, Surveys and Opportunities
Key Measures
  • Analysis of both Formative and Summative Data
  • CLSD Goal Setting Map
  • Data Analysis and Fluid Groupings of Students
  • Grade Level Content Unit Plans
  • Grade-Levels will moderate text types together.
  • Increase NDSA Reading Profiency Data Grades 3-5
  • Increase STAR Proficiency Reading Data
  • Observation Results: including ELEOTS, daily notes
  • PLC Weekly Meeting Notes
  • Professional Development Schedules for Math
  • Published Schedule for Each Interventionist.
  • Skills/Standards taught across content areas.
  • Team observations, reflection time & feedback
  • Tools for Progress Monitoring (PAAST/AIMS-web)
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