Devils Lake High School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2023 - 2024 Devils Lake High School Continuous Improvement
Time Period: 6/1/2023 - 5/31/2024
Vision

To empower students, families, staff, and our community based on our student-centered values. Student will strive for growth by building resiliency, advocacy, and 21st Century learning skills. As a result, every student will be equipped to positively impact their community.

Mission

To nurture students by supporting their individual growth.

Beliefs

We believe in life-long learning, relationships, and integrity, where all students are valued in a safe and supportive environment.

Post Graduate Readiness
DLHS will align its focus to meet the requirements of the DLPS Strategic Plan and North Dakota's Choice Ready.
Collaboration
DLHS will collaborate with various stakeholders to build, evaluate, and sustain an inclusive learning environment.
Instruction
DLHS will provide resources, training, and feedback to ensure teacher effectiveness.
Objectives
  • DLHS will align its focus to meet the requirements North Dakota's Choice Ready.
Objectives
  • DLHS will collaborate with various stakeholders to build, evaluate, and sustain an inclusive learning environment.
Objectives
  • DLHS will provide resources, training, and feedback to ensure teacher effectiveness.
Critical Initiative
  • DLHS will evaluate Choice Ready data to develop a plan to increase the number of DLHS students graduating Choice Ready
  • DLHS will evaluate its growth in meeting the requirements of the Strategic Plan.
Critical Initiative
  • Create PLC expectations that emphasize the importance of goal setting, collaboration, evaluation of data, and meeting regularly.
  • Professional Development centered around the correct PLC process will be provided to teachers at the beginning of the year, and the admin and coach will visit PLCs regularly.
  • Provide opportunities for varying stakeholder groups to brainstorm, evaluate, and offer feedback on school initiatives.
Critical Initiative
  • Develop and refine the PLC process among DLHS staff to cultivate collaborative relationships among staff and improve instructional practices.
  • Provide coaching and instructional support to teachers that aligns with DLPS Development and Evaluation plans as well as the 4 District Critical Commitments.
  • Provide Professional Development to staff centered on content presentation, engagement, and the integration of literacy practices
  • Provide training and resources for AP/Dual Credit teachers to become qualified to teach AP/Dual Credit classes.
  • Provide training opportunities centered around the DLPS evaluation system and the eleot observation tool.
  • Routinely schedule instructional rounds to build and maintain teacher capacity as well as open lines of communication among staff.
Key Measures
  • Choice Ready Report
Key Measures
  • Assessment Data
  • Meeting attendance/minutes
  • Parent/Community Surveys
  • PLC Notes
  • Student Survey
Key Measures
  • Allocation of Budget
  • Coaching Notes
  • Number of AP/DC Courses and student enrollment
  • Professional Development Plan
  • Teacher Certification
  • Teacher Evaluation
  • Teacher Self Evaluation on Critical Committments
MTSS
DLHS will provide support to Tier 2 and 3 students.
Curriculum
DLHS will use the North Dakota State Standards to provide a teaching and learning framework that promotes a district-wide guaranteed and viable curriculum.
Building Relationships
Provide students access to school personnel in order to enrich their high school experience.
Objectives
  • DLHS will create academic and behavioral pathways that will support, reinforce, and monitor the learning of all students.
Objectives
  • DLHS will align its focus to meet the requirements of the DLPS Strategic Plan and North Dakota's Choice Ready.
  • DLHS will use the ND State Standards to provide a teaching and learning structure that promotes a district-wide guaranteed and viable curriculum
Objectives
  • Provide students access to resources and activities that will enrich their high school experience.
Critical Initiative
  • Build the capability of the teacher so they are better able to recognize when a student is not meeting expectations, intervene on missing skills, and progress monitor student growth.
  • Find and match interventions to our students' needs.
  • Formalize a curriculum for our Successful School and Life Skills Classroom. Add a full-time instructor to create consistency across class periods.
  • Re-introduce Firebird Time as a way to build and maintain relationships and allow students to learn and practice social-emotional skills.
  • Train staff to assist with assessing, understanding, implementing, and progress monitoring on a variety of tools to address student social-emotional needs.
Critical Initiative
  • All content areas will use proficiency scales to build daily lessons and units, the scales will allow students to monitor their learning progression and evaluate their growth on the learning targets
  • Teachers will use a variety of assessments to drive their instruction and evaluate student growth toward learning goals.
  • Teachers will use proficiency scales to plan targeted instructional units
Critical Initiative
  • Create and Implement a Family Engagement plan that allows for families to be part of their child's education.
  • Create whole school and grade level activities that emphasize relationship building between staff and students.
  • "Develop the ""Profile of a Firebird"" to promote, teach, and model Firebird spirit and beliefs."
Key Measures
  • Assessment Data
  • Behavioral Referrals/Log Entries
  • MTSS Documentation
  • Professional Development Plan
  • Student Survey
Key Measures
  • Assessment
  • Proficiency Scale USe
  • Student Survey
  • Teachers' unit plans
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