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

To equip all students with tools and strategies to learn and succeed in a global society.

Mission

We inspire minds, shape values, and build futures.

Beliefs

Learning is important as a life-long skill. All members of the school community assume responsibility for their choices and work together to achieve common goals through active engagement, leading with integrity, and fostering respect for all.  Change is essential for continued growth and progress.


Engaging Communication
If students communicate effectively through multiple mediums, then they will have the skills to engage in communication in the 21st Century.
Healthy Minds
If students receive adequate access and relationships with staff/professionals, programs/initiatives, and positive school cultures then their mental health will be supported positively.
Community Sustainability
If students receive opportunities to support sustainability in their community then they will be contributing viable citizens.
Objectives
  • Provide opportunities to practice effective forms of communication through multiple mediums.
Objectives
  • (LRSE Unit) Provide training to staff to assist with addressing student social-emotional needs.
  • Provide access to relationships and programs/initiatives that support positive mental health.
Objectives
  • Provide opportunities for students to be active and contributing citizens.
Critical Initiative
  • Incorporate practices that promote healthy digital communications
  • Incorporate verbal communication strategies into classroom curriculum.
  • Incorporate written communication strategies into classroom curriculum.
  • Use technology as a communication tool.
Critical Initiative
  • (LRSE Unit) Continue to provide guidance on effective social-emotional goals and progress monitoring for students with disabilities to determine effectiveness of interventions and plans.
  • (LRSE Unit) Provide PD in SEL Topics including Zones of Regulation, Nurtured Heart, Crisis Prevention & Intervention, trauma informed practices, and/or social skills instruction.
  • (LRSE Unit) Provide staff training to schools for mental health, behavior health, and social-emotional training as requested.
  • (LRSE Unit) Support staff attendance at school-wide and area-wide workshops to promote social-emotional learning.
  • (LRSE) Provide training and guidance in Functional Behavior Assessments and effective individualized behavior plans
  • (LRSE) Provide training and scholarship funds to schools implementing sensory rooms and sensory processing breaks for students throughout the school
  • (LRSE) Support other mental health training and professional development opportunities in our area schools.
  • Build support systems to enhance sense of belonging.
  • Use counseling referrals and outside counseling resources to support students' mental health.
Critical Initiative
  • Partner with community members and stakeholders
  • Provide an environment which allows students to be engaged while learning skills and core academics and encourages growth and progress needed to transition onto future opportunities.
  • Provide opportunities for students to be contributing digital citizens
  • Provide opportunities for students to complete service projects
Key Measures
  • Documentation of digital expectations
  • Evidence of instruction on digital citizenship
  • Identify sources and use of technology schoolwide
  • Identify verbal communication opportunities
  • Identify written communication opportunities.
  • Monitor student devices through Aristotle program
Key Measures
  • (LRSE) Document staff attendance at PD & workshops
  • (LRSE) Document staff training provided/supported
  • (LRSE) Document training opportunities
  • (LRSE) File monitor inclusion of behavioral info
  • (LRSE) Ongoing documentation of FBAs and BIPs
  • (LRSE) School & State Suspension & Expulsion data
  • Documentation of sources implemented/effectiveness
  • Documentation of visits and referrals
  • Participation in additional learning opportunities
  • Participation in teams, clubs, and organizations
Key Measures
  • After School Program
  • Documented use of tools and technologies
  • Evidence of instruction on digital citizenship
  • Fall Educator's Conference
  • Full-time Schoolwide Title Teacher
  • Gearing Up for Kindergarten
  • Grade Level Meetings
  • Implementation of partnership opportunities
  • implementation of supplemental resources/programs
  • MTSS
  • NDCEL & NDAESP Conference
  • Professional Development as needed and available
  • Record of service hours or experiences
Personalized Learning
If students receive personalized learning opportunities that allow them to explore skill areas and topics of interest then they will be college, career, or military ready in a global economy.
Objectives
  • Provide opportunities for students to receive personalized and innovative learning opportunities based on interests, needs, and abilities.
Critical Initiative
  • Incorporate experiential learning opportunities in and outside of school.
  • Incorporate problem-based learning opportunities.
  • Provide opportunities of choice with additional learning beyond the regular curriculum.
Key Measures
  • Evidence of experiential learning
  • Evidence of Project based learning
  • Implement opportunities guided by student interest
  • Increase of project & problem-based learning
  • Participation in experiential learning
  • Project presentations
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