Map Name: 2023-2024 Ely Elementary Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 7/1/2023 - 6/30/2024
Vision

Our vision is to create a safe and caring environment in which all learners are engaged with authentic, innovative, standards-referenced learning centered on collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking.

Mission

To cultivate relationships and promote growth with every student every day.

Beliefs

We value a safe and caring learning environment that is:

Learner-Centered

Engaging

Innovative      

Culture and Climate
PRIORITY AREA 1: SCHOOL CULTURE AND CLIMATE
Personalization
PRIORITY AREA 2: 21ST CENTURY READINESS AND PERSONALIZED LEARNING
Standards-referenced
PRIORITY AREA 3: ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT AND STANDARDS-REFERENCED INSTRUCTION
Objectives
  • Goal 1: Emergency Procedures
  • Goal 2: Social and Emotional Learning and Learner Behavior
Objectives
  • Goal 1: 21st Century Readiness and Personalized Learning
Objectives
  • Goal 1: Standards-Referenced Instruction
  • Goal 2: Learning Management System
Critical Initiative
  • A task force with representation from buildings, emergency services, and the administrative team, will be formed to review policies and emergency procedures.
  • Each school will increase access to mental health therapies for all learners.
  • Each school will utilize a social and emotional learning curriculum to enhance educator to learner and peer to peer relationships in both schools.
Critical Initiative
  • Ensure learners have consistent and deliberate opportunities for collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking.
  • Establish partnerships and relationships with non-profits and area businesses to support learner success in academics and activities.
  • Provide professional learning to ensure authentic learning and real-world experiences that go beyond the walls of the school are embedded in all courses.
Critical Initiative
  • Align curriculum, instruction, and assessment to essential standards. Establish and maintain a curriculum review cycle, which ties to budget priorities.
  • Grades K-8 will transition to standards-referenced grading and reporting. Standards-referenced instruction will occur in grades 9-12.
  • Implement a learning management system that aligns with standards-referenced instruction.
  • The district will develop a grading and reporting policy that may include guidance on the following topics: homework, eligibility, redos, reporting frequency, and retakes.
  • Utilize existing Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) with a focus on the 4 Essential Questions
Key Measures
  • Develop a MTSS pathways framework
  • Expanded mental health therapy access
  • Identify tier 1, 2, and 3 behavior expectations
  • New emergency policies will be developed
  • Professional development will be provided
  • Provide annual refreshers for SEL curriculum
  • Review current emergency procedures
Key Measures
  • Develop a Portrait of a Graduate
  • Develop a work-based learning program
  • Provide PD on core competencies
Key Measures
  • Board approved grading policy
  • Develop a curriculum review cycle
  • Empower implementation
  • Products related to standards-referenced grading
  • Provide PLC annual refresher
Professional Learning
PRIORITY AREA 4: PROFESSIONAL LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Facility Planning
PRIORITY AREA 5: FACILITY PLANNING
Continuous Improvement
PRIORITY AREA 6: CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT AND STRATEGIC PLAN REVIEW
Objectives
  • Goal 1: Striving Readers Grant, Comprehensive State Literacy Development Grant, Literacy Audit, and Cognia Report Recommendations
  • Goal 2: Technology Planning
  • Goal 3: Professional Learning Support
Objectives
  • Goal 1: Ely Elementary
Objectives
  • Goal 1: Strategic Planning Annual Review
Critical Initiative
  • Build a consensus of best practices in instruction (with a focus on literacy) and delivery.
  • Ensure that all staff are provided refreshers on the key improvement areas annually.
  • Gather stakeholder perspectives to drive planning for technology with quarterly meetings of the District Technology Committee.
  • "Review and revise the long-range technology plan to ensure our learners have access to the necessary technology to support 21st Century learning skills. "
  • The district will continue to implement Professional Learning Communities (PLC).
  • The district will provide a differentiated approach to professional learning that supports educators.
Critical Initiative
  • "Address safety concerns related to learner drop-off and pickup. Increase space for the following areas: special education, regular education, cafeteria, and provide adequate playground space. "
  • Build stakeholder and community understanding regarding a potential addition to meet the space concerns at Ely Elementary.
Critical Initiative
  • The Rugby School Board will create a review cycle to progress to monitor all goals and objectives.
Key Measures
  • Annual PD plan presented to board
  • Annual PLC reviews
  • Annual refreshers
  • Create new technology plan
  • Gather feedback through surveys
  • Instructional rounds for all
  • Quarterly meetings of committee
Key Measures
  • A comprehensive review will occur annually
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