North Border-Walhalla High School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2023-2024 Walhalla High School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 8/23/2023 - 5/23/2024
Vision

The North Border Public Schools primary vision is to educate young people for a satisfying and productive life.

Mission

To facilitate a balance of a strong academic approach enhanced by moral and social values to develop responsible citizen

Beliefs

We believe that education should equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to become active, informed, and productive members of society.

Student Safety/Security
Enhance and strengthen school wide safety and procedures.
Collaborative Learning
Establish a system wide learning model with a common instructional model, formative assessments, and a process that utilizes data to inform decision making
Student Achievement
Improve student achievement in Math for Grades 7, 8 and 10.
Objectives
  • To enhance and strengthen building safety procedures.
Objectives
  • Establish a system wide common instructional and assessment model
Objectives
  • To identify, teach and monitor 10-20 priority math standards in Grades 7, 8 and 10.
Critical Initiative
  • To implement CSTAG Training for building crisis team.
Critical Initiative
  • Working with the district counterpart create common curriculum documents and assessments which will enable data to inform instructional practices
Critical Initiative
  • Align current math materials to the 10-20 priority standards
  • Survey students to assess perceptions of math courses.
  • To collaborate when necessary with the district counterpart to ensure students have an equal learning opportunity within the district
  • To create a common math vocabulary between grade levels (vertical alignment).
  • To create a curriculum map outlining new alignment
  • To enable and encourage cross curricular involvement in Math, particularly from Industrial Arts and Science.
  • To establish a math professional learning community
  • To involve parents and community groups by hosting a Math Family Fun evening for middle school parens (grades 6-8).
  • To monitor the success of math initiatives by utilizing interim data at least once per quarter.
  • To research and implement better instructional practices in math.
Key Measures
  • Training Participation
Key Measures
  • Completion of 1 common assessment per subject
  • Completion of 1 curriculum map per grade level
  • Completion of a proficiency scale for 1 class
  • Hold 1 collaboration meeting per quarter
  • Use data from colalboratio to plan 1 unit
Key Measures
  • # of parents / community members present
  • # of Staff involvement in cross curricula math
  • Collaborate with counterpart 4 times per year
  • Consistent and frequent use of cognitive verbs
  • Creation of a pacing guide
  • Detailed standard - engagement - assessment maps
  • Frequent positive learning conversations
  • Identify supplementary materials needed
  • Increased achievement on interim data
  • List of cognitive verbs used per grade level
  • Non math teachers will use math vocab
  • Positive student trend line data
  • Rating scale measuring student engagement
  • Rating scale of student achievement
  • Rating scale of student self-efficacy in math
  • Science and Shop classes will identify math used
Critical Thinking
Improving critical thinking skills can impact student achievement positively.
Objectives
  • To increase student engagement
Critical Initiative
  • Gather and analyze data on students needs.
  • Provide ongoing professional learning for teams and grade levels.
Key Measures
  • Assessment Data/Surveys
  • Informal classroom observations
  • Student assessment data
  • Student feedback on instruction
  • teacher observation data
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