Mandan Middle School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2024-2025 Mandan Middle School Continuous School Improvement Plan
Time Period: 5/1/2024 - 4/30/2025
Vision

Every student will graduate Choice Ready; ready for college, career, and life.

Mission

Provide students with learning experiences to help them develop the skills to become productive citizens.

Beliefs

Schools should equip students with communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity skills.  Provide students with a safe, caring, supportive, and respectful learning environment.  Schools, parents and the community should strive to inspire students to succeed.

MTSS
Meeting the needs of each student academically and socially-emotionally is accomplished best within a continuum of services outlined in tiers (Tier I, II, and III).
PLC
Professional Learning Communities are the heart of improving instructional practices and meeting the needs of each student. Educators learn and lead from each other.
Personalized Learning
Students entering the workforce must be adaptable lifelong learners. To better prepare our students, we believe a focus on personalized learning that is in tune with students needs and aspirations.
Objectives
  • Develop a comprehensive MTSS system for ELA, math, and SEL
Objectives
  • Support a robust PLC process to support educators and instruction.
Objectives
  • Provide more personalized learning opportunities to support the unique learning needs of students.
Critical Initiative
  • Continued development and implementation of Tier II, and III pathways in ELA, math, and SEL.
  • "Continued implementation of a data management system (Educlimber) to monitor MTSS pathways "
  • Increase proficiency on Number systems (NS) and Problem- Solving standards at each grade level by 3% each quarter through the use of reaction days.
  • Increase proficiency on the school-wide literacy standard and ELA reading for Information standards by 3% each quarter through the use of explicit vocabulary and reading strategies.
Critical Initiative
  • "Begin building a district instructional model. "
  • Continually monitor PLC effectiveness through instructional coaching and administrative support through evaluation.
  • "Implement protocols for quality PLCs. "
Critical Initiative
  • Create a system for housing common formative and summative assessments within curriculum maps and blueprint courses
  • Develop academic essential learnings for all classes in Mandan.
  • Develop proficiency scales to align with essential learnings.
  • Provide high-impact, differentiated learning to promote successful educational experiences for all students housed within blueprint courses (anchor activities).
Key Measures
  • EduClimber Training for Admins
  • EduClimber Training for Educators
  • EduClimber Training for Instructional Coaches
  • ELA Pathways developed for Mandan Middle School.
  • Explicit reading instruction PD for staff.
  • Explicit vocabulary instruction PD for staff.
  • Explicit writing instruction PD for staff.
  • Improved NDSA ELA scores.
  • Improved NDSA math scores.
  • Math pathways developed for Mandan Middle School.
  • SEL pathways developed for Mandan Middle School.
  • Use of reaction days by all math instructors.
Key Measures
  • Coaches meet with PLC teams 2x a month
  • Completed principal/coaching training.
  • Instructional coaches trained on protocols.
  • PLC teams received PLC Teams training.
  • PLC Teams trained on Action Research Cycle.
Key Measures
  • Academic scales will be identified and uploaded.
  • Compile list of staff PD opportunities
  • Completed Blueprint courses.
  • Essentials will be identified and uploaded.
  • Increased graduation rate of sped students
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