Map Name: 2023-2024 Valley Edinburg Hoople Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 5/1/2023 - 5/22/2024
Vision

Our vision is to be the present and future of excellent rural education. 

Mission

To provide the educational experiences needed for all students to pursue the future of their choice. 

Beliefs

We believe that ensuring tomorrow's success starts with nurturing resilient, forward-thinking, capable minds today.

Technology and Innovation
By including technology into our K-12 curriculum we can continue to instruct students in the basics, promote self-worth, promote active student-centered learning and equip with needed skills.
Continuous Improvement
We believe that a cycle of planning, action, reflection and improvement is an essential component to school growth.
Facilities & Finance
We believe that by having a long-range facilities plan as well as a long range financial plan is essential to ensuring the longevity of a school district.
Objectives
  • Incorporate cybersecurity and computer education for all students in our district and offer students digital supplemental learning opportunities.
  • Our goal is to ensure that all technology and infrastructure within the district is current and enhances the education of all students.
Objectives
  • Our goal is to provide quality evidence for all 30 standards outlined in Cognia's Performance Standards for K-12 Institutions.
Objectives
  • Create and maintain a long-range facilities plan.
  • Create and maintain a long-range financial plan.
Critical Initiative
  • Administration will work with teachers to incorporate cybersecurity and computer education into their curriculum. They will find opportunities to offer cybersecurity and computer education courses.
  • The school district's long-range technology plan will be reviewed annually ad updated as needed.
Critical Initiative
  • Superintendent will coordinate and facilitate all continuous improvement meetings.
Critical Initiative
  • Ensure the long-range facilities plan addresses transportation needs, safety and security needs, building updates, equipment needs and roof needs.
  • Ensure the long-range financial plan addresses future staffing needs, opportunities needs, capital maintenance needs as well as future state funding trends and grant opportunities.
Key Measures
  • Assess needs at annual technology planning meeting
Key Measures
  • Review outcomes
  • Stakeholder feedback
Key Measures
  • Continuous Improvement review outcomes
  • Review outcomes
  • Stakeholder feedback
School Climate & Culture
We believe that providing excellent curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular opportunities for our students is an essential part of the school experience.
Academic Engagement
We believe that students have the greatest academic success when they are taught a curriculum that is developmentally appropriate and aligned with the ND State Standards.
Objectives
  • Create a long-range opportunities plan for all K-12 students in our school district.
  • Focus our school district's communication to one source.
Objectives
  • Our goal is to ensure that all K-12 curriculum taught in our district is aligned to the appropriate standards.
  • Our goal is to have clear and pragmatic academic and behavioral expectations for all K-12 students in our school.
Critical Initiative
  • Create rolling 6 year-plans for every student in our district that outlines academic paths as well as opportunities that enhance these paths.
  • Delegate media responsibilities to superintendent, business manager and technology coordinator.
  • Ensure students' school location is able to provide the developmentally appropriate opportunities on site.
  • Promote and provide extended school program opportunities to all K-8 students in our school district.
  • Promote and provide extra-curricular, co-curricular and choice-ready opportunities to all 7-12 students in our school district.
Critical Initiative
  • Administrators will develop school-wide academic and behavioral expectations for all students.
  • Administrators will ensure staff are able to teach and assess these expectations.
  • Administrators will provide professional development that helps teachers map the teaching of these standards and prioritize standards.
  • Administrators will work with teachers on ensuring all assessments assess the standards appropriately and effectively.
  • Counselors will work with teachers and administration to ensure all behavioral expectations are being met.
  • Instructional Coach will work with teachers to ensure academic expectations are being met.
  • The district's instructional coach will provide resources to administration and teachers.
Key Measures
  • Assess progress using intermittent testing data
  • Attendance data
  • Classroom observations
  • Stakeholder feedback
  • Student engagement surveys
Key Measures
  • Assess progress using intermittent testing data
  • Monitoring office referrals
  • Student engagement 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