Map Name: 2023-2024 Dunseith High School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 5/1/2023 - 6/30/2024
Vision
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""The Dragon Way” is a school-wide Positive Behavior Support program intended to assist the school in its efforts to improve school climate and academic outcomes for all students.  

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Mission

Dunseith Schools are dedicated to developing academic and personal excellence in each child.

Beliefs
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""Take care of yourself, others and your environment.""

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Curriculum Maps
Develop standards-aligned curriculum maps and collectively implement research-based practices to maximize student engagement.
Positive Relationships
Improve relational trust by investing sufficient time to develop responsible, empathic, authentic, and positive relationships within and across stakeholders groups.
Relationships/Engagement
Improve the school graduation rate by 5%.
Objectives
  • Develop standard-aligned curriculum maps and collectively implement research-based practices to maximize student engagement.
Objectives
  • Improve relational trust by investing sufficient time to develop responsible, empathic, authentic, and positive relationships within and across groups
Objectives
  • The school graduation rate will be raised 5%.
Critical Initiative
  • PLC members work to collaboratively develop standards-aligned curriculum.
  • PLC teams meet across the board to vertically-align instruction.
  • Teachers implement and execute research-based instructional practices to maximize student engagement.
Critical Initiative
  • All staff spends regular time participating in team building discussions and activities to foster relations.
  • Clear communication and transparency will be practiced by administrators.
  • The DLT will also communicate any decisions or changes that will be made after discussion in DLT meetings.
Critical Initiative
  • Four-year rolling plans will be developed and followed.
  • Students will begin credit recovery immediately after failing a course.
Key Measures
  • Assessments
  • Classroom observations
  • North Dakota State Assessment
Key Measures
  • Staff Surveys
Key Measures
  • Graduation rate data.
PLCs
Professional Learning Communities (PLC) execute research-based meeting practices during weekly meetings and collect and analyze student achievement data to drive future instruction.
School Improvement
The District Leadership Team (DLT) owns the execution of school improvement goals.
Objectives
  • PLCs execute research-based meeting practices during bi-weekly meetings and collect/analyze student achievement data to drive future instruction.
Objectives
  • The District Leadership Team (DLT) owns the execution of school improvement goals.
Critical Initiative
  • Every person has a PLC team and every content area is represented on the DLT team.
  • PLC members consistently execute research-based meeting practices to have effective meetings.
  • PLC teams consistently analyze student data to plan for instruction.
Critical Initiative
  • The DLT members will communicate DLT topics and decisions with their respective PLCs.
  • The DLT models research-based practices in meetings.
  • The DLT will collect and analyze key performance indicators (KPI) data to monitor progress and drive decision-making.
  • The DLT will meet bi-weekly for one hour.
Key Measures
  • Assessments
  • DLT and PLC meeting observations.
  • Meeting agenda
Key Measures
  • Bi-monthly KPI data by DLT team.
  • DLT and PLC meeting observations.
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