Sweet Briar School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2024-2025 Sweet Briar Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/3/2024 - 5/31/2025
Vision

Our vision is that every student will achieve academic and personal success.

Mission

Students will effectively communicate with others, academically succeed, and develop a lifelong love of learning.

Beliefs

We believe that all children learn most effectively within a stable, safe, caring, and creative environment where each person is respected.

Positive School Culture
Creating a school environment where students feel safe, valued, and fully engaged in their learning will foster positive relationships and academic outcomes.
Technology Integration
Integrating technology into the curriculum will provide students with enhanced learning experiences while developing useful technology and success skills.
Personalized Learning
Personalizing student learning experiences will provide students with meaningful instruction that meets their needs and aligns with their interests.
Objectives
  • Create a safe and positive school culture where all students can fully engage in learning.
Objectives
  • Integrate technology with the purpose of enhancing student learning experiences, increasing digital literacy, and developing good digital citizens.
Objectives
  • Provide students with relevant, high quality learning experiences aligned to their needs and interests.
Critical Initiative
  • Build connections and foster relationships among students, staff, and community members.
  • Create an assessment environment that promotes revision, reassessment, and student self- assessment.
  • Promote student engagement and decision making in relation to school functions through the use of student committees.
  • Provide experiences to develop social-emotional learning skills.
  • Utilize instructional strategies to promote active engagement and student interaction.
Critical Initiative
  • Design and implement computer science and cybersecurity plan for aligning instruction to the state standards.
  • Engage students in learning activities that are enhanced with technology related resources.
  • Implement high quality computer science lessons.
  • Invest in technology equipment and resources.
  • Provide classroom teachers with needed professional development relating to technology use and instruction.
  • Provide instruction on digital literacy and citizenship skills.
Critical Initiative
  • Collect and analyze data on students' needs and interests; use data to differentiate instruction.
  • Invest in materials and resources aligned to support personalized learning.
  • Provide choice in learning activities, assessment methods, and learning environment where appropriate.
  • Provide professional development for teachers to support their efforts to provide high quality, personalized instruction.
  • Provide professional development in the area of reading and implement scientifically based instructional practices.
  • Utilize inquiry-based and/or project based learning methods where possible and appropriate.
Key Measures
  • Classroom assessment and observation
  • Classroom observations
  • Standards Based Reporting
  • Student Engagement Surveys
  • Student Self Assessment
  • Student Work/Student Portfolios
Key Measures
  • Classroom observations
  • Periodic review of technology equipment/resources
  • Plan
  • Student Self Assessment
  • Student Work/Student Portfolios
  • Teacher planning and reflection
  • Teachers' technology resource needs assessment
Key Measures
  • Classroom assessment and observation
  • Classroom observations
  • NDSA (North Dakota State Assessment)
  • NWEA MAP Assessment
  • NWEA MAP assessment analysis
  • Ongoing assessment of curriculum materials
  • READING Level Ongoing Assessments
  • Student Engagement Surveys
  • Student Surveys
  • Student Work/Student Portfolios
  • Teacher collaboration and materials review
  • Teacher Reflection
  • Teacher surveys
  • Yearly inventory checklist
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