Map Name: 2025-2026 Saint John Elementary School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2025 - 5/31/2026
Vision

To prepare every student to contribute to society in a meaningful way.

Mission

Every Student, Every Day

Beliefs

We believe:

Our school will create a safe, engaging, and welcoming environment for every student by creating a culture that prioritizes positive relationship building. 

It is our duty to foster the love of learning in every child, focusing on their individual needs.


Programs and Services
Continue evaluation of current programs and services.
Data strategy analysis
Effectively utilize school data to drive educational decisions.
Climate and Culture
Implementation of St. John House system and SEL programming (BARR - Building Assets Reducing Risks).
Objectives
  • Guide students in exploring and planning for their future.
Objectives
  • Use data to drive instruction
Objectives
  • Improve school climate, culture, and engagement across all stakeholders.
Critical Initiative
  • Develop schedule with school counselors and public health entities to enhance health education and career programs throughout the school.
Critical Initiative
  • Align reading and math standards and compare to the North Dakota Assessment in grades 2-8.
  • Analyze individual student data and organize students into tiers quarterly.
  • Continue developing Curriculum maps grades PreK-8
  • Continue to prioritize stakeholder engagement.
  • Use data to individualize instruction and follow reading and math pathways as curriculum is listed.
Critical Initiative
  • Continue implementing the BARR curriculum for Prek - 8th grade
  • Continue to implement House Mentoring System Prek-8th grades.
  • Continue to utilize Robokind robots (Milo/Veda) teach and practice self-regulation and cooling down techniques.
  • "Implement ""Moonshot"" expectations and timelines developed at the Improvement Academy. "
  • "Implement ""Talking Circles"" in grades K-8th."
  • Review Culture and Climate results for students, staff and parents. Distribute results of surveys to staff and stakeholders.
Key Measures
  • Culture and climate survey results
Key Measures
  • Aligned instruction
  • BARR Meeting DATA, STAR data
  • Data Tierred Reports
  • Progress monitoring using current data
  • Report Card Data
Key Measures
  • BARR Meeting DATA, STAR data
  • Behavior and BARR meeting Data
  • Behavior observations
  • Culture and climate survey results
  • Staff and student understanding of Moonshot
School's Value and Belief
Implementation of St. John school Vision and Mission Statement Values and Beliefs.
Teaching Strategies
Provide Professional Development Plan
Safety
St. John Safety Plan Implementation
Objectives
  • Implement school mission and vision statements
Objectives
  • Provide professional development for personal learning.
Objectives
  • Provide a safe environment for students and staff.
Critical Initiative
  • Display mission and vision statements throughout the school and through school communication methods such as: facebook school websites etc.
  • Present vision, mission and moonshot statements to school board for approval.
Critical Initiative
  • Plan and provide a yearly schedule of professional development for personalized learning.
  • Provide bi-weekly time for teacher collaboration and data analysis specific to content area.
Critical Initiative
  • Fully implement school safety plan. Continue to consult with ND Safety Council to make adjustments to plan as needed. Continue to provide ongoing staff training on the St. John school safety plan.
  • Survey staff and provide training to those who have not had Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) training. Continuous implementation of CPI strategies.
Key Measures
  • Culture and climate survey results
  • Survey Data/stakeholder communication methods
Key Measures
  • Formalized Monthly Meeting Schedule/Agenda/notes
  • MTSS/BARR mtg Data sheets
  • Review of school Professional Development calendar
Key Measures
  • Continuous training of new staff
  • Staff and students will follow safety protocol
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