Dakota Prairie Elementary School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2023-2024 Dakota Prairie Elementary School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 5/1/2023 - 4/30/2024
Vision

DP Community Educates and Empowers Lifelong Learners through Rigor, Responsibility, Respect and Relationships.

Mission

Educating and Empowering Lifelong Learners.

Beliefs
  • Believing students can learn and grow
  • Creating a supportive and positive school climate 
  • Ensuring students receive effective, rigorous, and relevant instruction from HQ teachers 
  • Engaging leadership in students, parents, and community partnerships 
  • Data-driven decisions for school improvement
Climate and Culture
Dakota Prairie will foster a safe and healthy school climate and culture for successful student learning and growth.
Student Readiness
Enhancing instruction and curriculum to improve student readiness
Social Emotional Learning
If Lake Region Special Education staff have appropriate training in developing student’s social-emotional skills, students will benefit by having more effective, successful school experiences.
Objectives
  • Promote a Safe and Healthy School
Objectives
  • Students will be Transition Ready
Objectives
  • Provide training to assist with understanding and implementing tools to address student SEL
Critical Initiative
  • Conduct Climate & Culture Survey (Parents, Staff, Students 3-6)
  • Continue safe and healthy programs
  • Provide professional development for staff
  • Review and update our safety plan
Critical Initiative
  • Conduct Engagement Survey (Students 3-6)
  • Conduct Inventories Survey (Staff, Students 3-6)
  • Create a formalized process to assess programs/curriculum.
  • Develop a process to align curriculum.
  • Meeting individual academic needs
  • Provide professional development for staff
  • Provides student transition activities
Critical Initiative
  • Continue to provide guidance on effective social-emotional goals and progress monitoring for students with disabilities to determine effectiveness of interventions and plans.
  • "Provide PD in Zones of Regulation, sensory rooms, Nurtured Heart, Crisis Prevention & Intervention and/or social skills instruction. "
  • Provide staff training to schools for mental health, behavior health and social-emotional training as requested.
  • Provide training and guidance in Functional Behavior Assessments and effective individualized behavior plans.
  • Provide training and scholarship funds to schools implementinng sensory rooms and sensory processing breaks for students throughout the school
  • Support other mental health training and professional development opportunities in our area schools.
  • Support Staff attendance at workshops to promote social-emotional learning.
Key Measures
  • Administrative observation
  • Safety drill data
  • Student referral data
  • Survey data
Key Measures
  • Academic Data
  • Academic/Behavior data, MTSS
  • Curriculum Material Calendar
  • Priority Standards Checklist
  • Reduce student to teacher ratio
  • Referral data
  • Scope and Sequence
  • Survey data
Key Measures
  • Document staff training provided/supported LRSE
  • Document training opportunities in unit and school
  • Documentation of staff attendance at PD workshops
  • File monitor identify effective progress ED goals
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