Little Heart Elementary School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2023-2024 Little Heart Elementary School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 5/1/2020 - 6/1/2024
Vision

Our vision at Little Heart Elementary School is to provide authentic learning experiences that will enable and empower students to become lifelong learners and productive citizens.

Mission

Our mission at Little Heart Elementary School is to ensure that all students are educated, self-directed, and productive members of society. Students will be educated and therefore able to apply skills and knowledge learned from a relevant standards-based core curriculum.

Beliefs

We believe:

All students can achieve academic potential through effort, high expectations, and quality teaching. 

All students are entitled equal access to a free and appropriate public education. 

All students deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.


Instructional Techniques
Our focus is to improve the writing ability of our students through additional professional development on the teacher's behalf.
Objectives
  • Implement knowledge obtained from the three session course we will be attending throughout the 2022-2023 school year on thematic units.
  • Increase engaging Math activities to align with North Dakota State Standards.
Critical Initiative
  • Ability to assign skills based on instructional needs using DreamBox, Prodigy, and other technological resources.
  • Assess performance of students based on the information learned from professional development course.
  • "Implement personalized learning program to increase student engagement."
  • Improve skills in revising and editing process.
  • Increase teacher/student conferencing throughout the entire writing process.
  • Increase the supply and use of Math manipulatives in the classroom.
  • Link thematic units to North Dakota State Standards.
  • Students will be able to brainstorm ideas with more ease.
  • To see an improvement in content and continuity of student writing.
Key Measures
  • Collect information from data graphics.
  • Grades 3-8 increase in state testing scores.
  • Observe an increase in K-8 test scores.
  • Reduce the learning gap between students by 10%.
  • Students should achieve level 3 by the end of year
  • Students show more interest in curriculum.
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