White Shield High School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2023 - 2024 White Shield High School Annual Improvement Plan
Time Period: 5/1/2023 - 4/30/2024
Vision

We envision students who will have attained a healthy mind, body, and spirit through understanding and appreciation of the Native American culture which will promote education, awareness and respect for all cultures.

Mission

Success for every student in every class!

Beliefs

We believe students will have a solid academic foundation and be prepared to be productive citizens in our community.  

Improvement Planning
School Leadership team will continue to meet at least twice monthly to lead the implementation and monitoring of school wide goals and priorities.
Classroom Instruction
Teachers will continue to build the frequency of transparent teaching practices and the clarity of their instruction so students demonstrate grade level proficiency based on relevant assessments.
Collaboration
Teachers will meet twice monthly in PLCs to analyze data and to expand the writing process and continue using the Common Learning Challenge. Transparent teaching practices will be utilized.
Objectives
  • School leadership team will meet twice monthly to lead implementation of school wide goals and priorities.
Objectives
  • Prepare all students for successful instruction to the next grade in their K12 experience and transition into college and career planning.
  • We will strengthen instruction by continuing with standards based instruction, integrate active student engagement and use teachers clarity model.
Objectives
  • Teachers will meet monthly in PLCs to analyze data to adapt instruction and to extend learning, reteach, and provide interventions and use the CLC.
Critical Initiative
  • Prepare and facilitate meetings SLT meetings.
  • Commitment to action - following up on the actions committed to by the team.
  • Create calendar for SLT to include data.
Critical Initiative
  • Explicit lesson planning including standards-based objectives.
  • Focus on aligning our instructions and assessment.
  • Implement a comprehensive mentor-ship and internship program opportunities to provide real-world learning experiences for SpEd students' success.
  • Improve engagement strategies including online tools.
  • Informal and formal checks for understanding.
  • One on one Pre-Employment Transition Services, Collaborative efffort with outside agencies: Vocational Rehabilitation of ND and EasterSeals Goodwill of ND.
  • Provide an option for alternative assessments for SpEd students.
  • Provide interventions based on the data
  • SpEd students' IEP will be reviews to modify expectations and accommodate students' needs in the regular ed classroom.
  • Students will create a college and career plan.
Critical Initiative
  • Engage in two-way feedback from meetings and tools for self-assessment
  • Extent the common learning challenge to include vocabulary, complex sentences, different forms of writing and the writing process.
  • Prepare calendar of events and testing
  • SpEd staff and other service providers will meet regularly in SpEd PLCs to discuss and check students' progress and needs as a team.
Key Measures
  • Agenda and Action Plans
  • Effective meeting practices
  • Effective meeting practices data
  • Rotation of preparation and facilitating roles
  • SLT ownership of meetings
Key Measures
  • Alternative assessment for SpEd, Acellus
  • Assessment and Evaluation Results
  • Complete checklist of standards
  • Create a resume and career portfolio
  • Create Career Interest Inventory
  • Enrichment provided for all levels
  • Google classroom and other online resources
  • Google classroom, Savaas, HMH, Holt McDougal, Kami
  • Improve ACT scores by 5 total points
  • Improve novice NWEA by 5 points
  • Job shadowing for all grade 11
  • Plan a college visit by grade 11
  • Research and write a career paper - grade 10
  • Review IEP update goals, progress and needs.
  • Review students' IEP
  • RTI
  • Self-evaluation of lesson plans
  • Student work samples as data to monitor progress
  • Using student planner as an organizational tool
Key Measures
  • Different forms of writing and the writing process
  • Improve student writing as measured by benchmark
  • PLC notes and agendas
  • Review students IEPs
  • Short term assessment data, like NWEA
  • Utilize turnitin.com plagiarism and grammar
  • Vocabulary and complex sentences
  • Yearly review students' goals, progress and needs.
Stakeholder Communication
White Shield School will actively communicate with stakeholders and provide meaningful, regular opportunities for parent and community engagement in student learning.
Objectives
  • We will actively communicate with stakeholders to provide meaningful regular opportunities for parent and community engagement.
Critical Initiative
  • Establish positive relationships through communication.
  • Provide feedback to parents on SpEd students' development by sending home quarterly progress reports .
  • Provide regular feedback to parents on student progress and learning with two-way communication inviting more feedback from family and parents.
  • Provide tools, training, resources to reinforce topics and concepts taught at school for social emotional learning.
  • Use various tools to actively communicate with stakeholders including Thrillshare and social media sites to communicate events, activities and important announcements.
Key Measures
  • Assessment and Evaluation Results
  • Curriculum through HS counselor for students
  • Engagement Surveys
  • Face to face communication
  • HS Mentoring groups meeting daily
  • Positive communication through calls or notes home
  • Trauma Training for staff
  • Web page, Facebook, Thrillshare and Warrior app
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