Map Name: 2024-2025 Watford City Middle School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2024 - 5/31/2025
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

Empower every student to succeed today and into the future. 

Beliefs

Our students, the focus of all decisions,will display:

  • Aspire to Excellence: We value putting forth the best effort in all pursuits
  • Resilience: We value preparing students to successfully navigate life's challenges
  • Progressive: We value our community and its commitment to provide for future generations
Academic Excellence
All Watford City Middle School students will engaged in a comprehensive curriculum designed to provide various academic experiences.
Culture and Climate
Watford City Middle School will provide a safe and civil environment for student success. To accomplish this goal, we must account for students' academic needs and behavioral and emotional needs.
Resource Management
Watford City Middle School will secure and allocate the resources needed to fund and carry out the strategic plan adequately.
Objectives
  • 21st Century Literacy Grant
  • Greater Math Grant
  • Guaranteed and viable curriculum with K-12 alignment
  • Professional Learning Communities
Objectives
  • Community Engagement
  • Engagement in Extra- and Co-Curricular Activities
  • Parental Involvement
  • Social-Emotional Learning
Objectives
  • Long-Range Facilities Planning
  • Long-Range Financial Planning
  • Long-Range Technology Planning
Critical Initiative
  • Engage in blended learning models to support math instruction.
  • Improve the literacy skills of all students.
  • Provide a guaranteed and viable curriculum to all students in all content areas and courses.
  • Provide all staff with the time and structure to participate in regularly scheduled PLCs.
  • Provide professional development on EL strategies and language development standards.
  • Strengthen CrunchTime Intervention Program
  • Thinking Classroom Professional Development
Critical Initiative
  • Adopt an effective identification system and protocol for students' social-emotional needs.
  • Create a family engagement plan.
  • Increase communication with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Increase student participation in diverse and high-quality activities that enhance student engagement and learning.
  • Invite community members to attend engagement activities and promote choice ready skills
  • Provide more access to programs, counseling, assistance, and resources for staff and students.
Critical Initiative
  • Create a technology plan to increase the alignment of technology with district goals.
  • Manage the facility resources in a way that directly supports teaching and learning.
  • Manage the financial resources in a way that directly supports teaching and learning.
Key Measures
  • 21st Century Curriculum Design Drive
  • aimsWeb & ND A+ Reading Data
  • CLSD Goal Setting Map
  • ND A+ and aimsWeb Data
  • NDSA Data
  • NDSA Reading Data
  • PLC Meeting Minutes
  • WIDA ACCESS Scores
Key Measures
  • Attendance Reports
  • Behavioral Reports
  • Community participation rates
  • Completion of communication plan.
  • End-of-Year Survey Data
  • Outside Service Referrals
  • SCUTA Reports
  • The number of activities available
  • The number of family engagement activities offered
  • The number of student participants
Key Measures
  • Review of facilities plan (Phase 1 Renovation).
  • Review of long-range financial plan.
  • Review of technology plan.
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