Starkweather Elementary School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2023-2024 Starkweather Elementary School Annual Improvement Plan
Time Period: 5/1/2023 - 4/30/2029
Vision

To empower every student to reach their full potential

Mission

To motivate all students to become successful citizens and lifelong learners in an ever-changing world

Beliefs

Our students will achieve their full potential when we:

  • Maintain an environment with clear and high expectations using a challenging curriculum
  • Integrate technology into our learning environment
  • Foster a collaborative relationship among all stakeholders
  • Ensure students and staff feel safe and respected
Long-range planning
Develop long-range plan for the district and its programs for the next five years and beyond.
Social-Emotional Learning
If Lake Region Special Education staff have appropriate training in developing student's social-emotional skills, students will benefit by have more effective, successful school experiences.
Real-world connection
Implement curriculum that focuses on real-world connections.
Objectives
  • Develop long-range plan for the district and its programs for the next five years and beyond.
Objectives
  • Provide training to staff to address student social-emotional needs.
Objectives
  • Implement curriculum that focuses on real-world connections to better motivate students.
Critical Initiative
  • Create and implement a long-range plan to address building improvements and renovations.
  • Create and implement a long-range plan to analyze curriculum resources.
  • Create and implement a long-range plan to analyze technology resources.
Critical Initiative
  • Provide professional development in current topics related to social-emotional health.
  • Provide training and guidance in Functional Behavior Assessments and effective individualized behavior plans.
Critical Initiative
  • Implement real-world applications across the curriculum
  • Invest in curriculum, materials and out-of-school experiences that promote real-world connections
Key Measures
  • Budget provides money for curricular materials
  • Budget provides money for improvements
  • Budget provides money for technology resources
  • Plan for building improvements and repairs
  • Utilize a plan for curricular study
  • Utilize plan for updating & purchasing technology
Key Measures
  • Observation by staff.
  • Staff attendance at SEL professional development.
Key Measures
  • Budget analysis
  • Classroom observation (Possibly with Eleot)
  • Observations by teachers
  • Student engagement survey
  • Teacher survey
New staff development
Provide training and long-term mentoring for teachers new to the system.
Data analysis
Utilize testing and survey data effectively.
Objectives
  • Provide training and long-term mentoring for teachers new to the system to ensure teacher success.
Objectives
  • Utilize testing and survey data effectively to inform instruction and facilitate student success.
Critical Initiative
  • Create an orientation portfolio for teachers new to our district.
  • Provide formal mentoring with a trained mentor for teachers with less than three years of teaching experience.
  • Provide formal training for current staff to serve as mentors.
Critical Initiative
  • Implement curricular changes indicated by the data analysis
  • Meet regularly as a staff to analyze data
  • Train staff to interpret various types of data
Key Measures
  • Classroom staff evaluations
  • Designate prof. development funds for training
  • Mentoring observations
  • New teacher checklist
  • New teacher year end survey
Key Measures
  • Analyse survey data from year to year
  • Calendar of meetings
  • Scores show improvement in data collection periods
  • Time is provided each quarter for data analysis
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