Central Middle School

School Strategy Map

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

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

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. 

Social Emotional Learning
Build the skills of our students in the area of Social Emotional Learning.
Intervention
Implement interventions and progress monitor student achievement to meet individual student needs.
Core Instruction
Improve core content instructional strategies to enhance the learning of all students.
Objectives
  • Provide students with the skills to make positive choices within their daily living.
Objectives
  • Provide students with skills that are relevant to their learning through interventions & enrichment.
Objectives
  • Provide teachers with relevant professional development as it relates to their teaching field.
Critical Initiative
  • Develop a peer leadership program that addresses social needs of our students.
  • Ensure 7 Mindsets curriculum is taught in grades 5-8, by the classroom teachers and counselors.
  • Research and update the Character Counts! program to match the themes of the 7 Mindsets. Maintain the recognition of the Character of the Week program at monthly assemblies and daily announcements.
  • Research peer mentorship group for our school.
Critical Initiative
  • "Benchmark using data/screeners three times a year to identify student needs. "
  • Progress monitor intervention students every 2-3 weeks to evaluate the response to the intervention.
  • Review the data as a team, evaluate the response, and determine the appropriate placement of each student.
Critical Initiative
  • Departmentalize the master schedule.
  • Provide meaningful feedback to classroom teachers by using the District Observation Feeback tool.
  • "Provide professional development for personalized learning. "
  • Use Professional Learning Communities to plan, develop, and deliver instruction.
Key Measures
  • MTSS Behavior Log
  • Observation
  • Student nominations
  • Student Survey
Key Measures
  • Data
  • Intervention Program Assessments
  • Progress Monitoring Assessments via FastBridge
  • Screening students 3x per year using FastBridge
Key Measures
  • Administrators guiding the PLC process
  • Coaching Cycle
  • Formative and Summative Assessments
  • Observation
  • Observation Checklist
  • Observing Instructional Strategies
  • Teacher Growth
  • Walk-throughs
Communication
Improve the public perception of the Middle School by marketing our school to the community.
Objectives
  • Strengthen the communication between the school and its stakeholders.
Critical Initiative
  • Administration and teachers will provide weekly updates to parents on the current and upcoming events within the classroom/school.
  • Develop a digital platform for information to be shared in a dialog between the school and families. Use Actionaly as the platform.
  • Engage in community service projects.
  • Initiate an online registration for students and parents of the district for school enrollment.
  • Promote positive actions of the students and other school news through social media, announcements, assemblies, and special projects.
  • Promote relationships with community and business stakeholders through Exploratory and Cultural Days.
Key Measures
  • Family Engagement Data
  • Parent Survey
  • Powerschool data reports
  • Stakeholder feedback from community events.
  • Stakeholder 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