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

Graduates of New Salem-Almont will be critical thinkers, professionals, leaders, communicators, and content master.

Mission

The NSA mission is to ensure that each student achieves his/her full potential through student-centered practices.

Beliefs

Graduates of New Salem-Almont will be critical thinkers, professionals, leaders, communicators, and content master.

SEL/Behavior
If improving engagement among students with behavioral, social/emotional, and/or mental heath challenges is the priority, then these students will adapt to school activities on a daily basis.
Personalized learning
If utilizing a Multi-Tiered System of Supports is a priority, then students achieve success.
Curriculum
In order to impact instruction, we then need to align and sequence curriculum with standards.
Objectives
  • Improve engagement among students with behavioral, social/emotional, and/or mental heath challenges.
Objectives
  • Using MTSS model, provide active, personalized learning opportunities to support student success.
Objectives
  • Align, sequence, and evaluate curriculum.
Critical Initiative
  • Explore and implement policies and procedures to improve student engagement.
  • Implement additional curriculum supports for social-emotional learning.
  • Increase staffing to help students with social-emotional/mental health needs.
Critical Initiative
  • Examine student data to evaluate and reflect upon future instruction.
  • Provide professional development for personalized learning.
  • Utilize instructional staff and methods efficiently to meet all students' needs.
Critical Initiative
  • Align curriculum to standards.
  • Evaluate curriculum effectiveness.
Key Measures
  • Curriculum Effectiveness
  • Data (Assessment, Engagement)
  • eleot
  • MTSS Meetings
  • Number of Tier 3 Behaviors
  • Student behavioral data
  • surveys
Key Measures
  • Admin walk-throughs and teacher evaluations
  • Data (Assessment, Engagement)
  • Lesson Objective posted
  • Support staff schedules
  • Teacher surveys and Classroom observations
Key Measures
  • Data (Assessment, Engagement)
  • PLC's
  • surveys
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