Underwood High School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2023-2024 Underwood High School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 5/1/2023 - 4/30/2024
Vision

 All students will graduate choice ready with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to be successful.

Mission

The Underwood Way is to educate and empower students to be responsible, respectful, and ready.

Beliefs

We Believe:

 The purpose of education is to equip students with the knowledge and

skills necessary to become active, informed, and productive members of

society. Our public schools have a responsibility to foster the growth of

intelligent and informed citizens.

Curriculum
A priority for Underwood Public School is to establish a curriculum that meets state standards and choice ready criteria.
Culture/Climate
A priority for Underwood Public Schools is to develop a challenging, caring, rewarding, and safe learning/working environment.
NDMTSS
A priority of Underwood Public Schools is to increase supports for implementing MTSS supports with fidelity.
Objectives
  • Underwood Public Schools will align our curriculum to meet the state standards and choice ready criteria.
Objectives
  • To develop a system of positive culture in order to improve climate, engagement, and implement high expectations.
Objectives
  • To develop and utilize a system to meet the needs of diverse learners.
Critical Initiative
  • Curriculum alignment.
  • Curriculum evaluated on a yearly basis by committee and administration.
  • Professional development in researched based best practices.
Critical Initiative
  • Build a system to target all stakeholders to improve culture and positivity in the school district.
  • Have students take part in the NDSU extension leadership program.
  • Recognize student and staff accomplishments in accordance with the Underwood Way using Comet Call-Outs, Comet Connection Postcards, and the Golden Apple Award.
  • Recruit and retain quality teachers and support staff.
  • Utilize our Comet Connections program to foster student relationships and social/emotional learning.
Critical Initiative
  • Create a referral, intervention, and evaluation process for all learners.
  • Design and implement differentiated lessons to meet the learner needs of all grade levels.
  • Formulate a data tracking/evaluation system for student behaviors.
Key Measures
  • Professional Development, PLC
  • Skill development progression of content area
  • Yearly curriculum evaluation, content committees
Key Measures
  • Parent teacher conf., Back to school night,
  • Reading month, activities, senior buddy
  • Teacher recruitment, student teachers
Key Measures
  • Chart Behavioral Matrix, PowerSchool Log entry
  • Handbook, Building level support team documents
  • "Lesson Plans, ""I can, we can, you can"""
Career and Tech
A priority of Underwood Public Schools is to make sure that students have the skills and dispositions to be productive citizens in their chosen career path.
Data
A priority of Underwood Public Schools is to utilize data to adjust teaching practices/strategies to maximize student growth.
Objectives
  • Providing resources to students and staff to create a safe and caring school.
Objectives
  • Underwood Public school will use data to improve student learning.
Critical Initiative
  • Develop and promote co-curricular programs to provide opportunities for all students.
  • Partner with community businesses and organizations to provide in school enrichment opportunities connected to career and technical education.
  • Partner with local businesses and industries to provide off campus training and exploration.
  • Utilize exploration programs to enrich students' learning by providing hands-on career and tech opportunities.
Critical Initiative
  • Staff will use data from STAR and NDSA to make purposeful decisions about our curriculum and student learning.
  • The staff will be trained to analyze and use data to drive effective instruction.
Key Measures
  • Expo, state conventions, participation
  • Survey, news letter, curriculum
Key Measures
  • Professional Development, Data Committee
  • STAR, SLDS, State Assessment
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