Map Name: 2024-2025 McClusky-Goodrich Elementary Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 7/1/2024 - 6/30/2025
Vision

Together we strive for excellence. 

Mission

Empower all students to think critically given the knowledge, skills, motivation, and respectful attitudes necessary to meet the challenges of a changing world. 

Beliefs

All students can learn, want to learn, and have the right to a positive learning environment.  Students learn in different ways and at different rate.  Quality education is a home, school, and community partnership. All students have a right and responsibility to have their needs met in a positive w

Technology
Develop technology resources
Student Engagement
Students will become more engaged in their learning
District Support
To equip all staff with the skills necessary to support all students and stakeholders district-wide.
Objectives
  • Provide appropriate and sufficient technology resources to students and teachers in all classrooms
Objectives
  • Construct and consistently implement a formal structure in which learners receive support from adults and peers.
  • Provide more active learning opportunities to support student readiness
  • Student goal setting
  • Use key engagement strategies to check-in with learners at various stages of academics
Objectives
  • Implement a formalized continuous improvement process in which all stakeholders are consistently involved in the creation and adjustment of goals
Critical Initiative
  • Provide professional development opportunities
  • Provide student technology orientation
  • Utilize the technology plan developed by the technology committee
Critical Initiative
  • Analyze results of student engagement surveys
  • Create a mentoring program between HS and ES students
  • Create teacher-led houses at the elementary and high school levels composed of students of multiple age levels who meet once a month.
  • Decide three key strategies to implement in classrooms, district wide, to actively asses student comprehension
  • Instruct students to create SMART academic goals
  • Provide engagement strategy PD to all stakeholders
  • Provide more opportunities for students to see what's available for career experiences
  • Provide PD to all internal stakeholders
Critical Initiative
  • Foster relationships with the PTO
  • Implement district-wide MTSS training for all staff members
  • Utilize a communication platform to communicate with stakeholders, letting them know what's going on in classrooms
Key Measures
  • Student assessment
  • Survey stakeholders
  • Tech Tuesdays
Key Measures
  • Leadership facilitates discussion with staff
  • Lesson plans
  • NWEA/MAP test data
  • Observations/evaluations
  • Student assessment
  • Student surveys
  • Survey stakeholders
  • Teacher surveys
Key Measures
  • Leadership facilitates discussion with staff
Curriculum & Instruction
Use curriculum to further develop students' critical thinking, math, and ELA skills
Objectives
  • Create a regular schedule for curriculum updates and replacements.
  • Cultivate a culture of inquiry, reflection and dialogue
  • Provide instruction which promotes writing and solving mathematical equations across the curriculum
  • Provide instruction which promotes writing composition
Critical Initiative
  • Develop professional development driven by school initiatives, team-teaching, collaboration and student academic needs
  • Focus on understanding mathematical language used in equations
  • Hold public curriculum review meetings when deciding to update the curriculum.
  • Implement real world mathematical equations in cross curricular instruction
  • Implement writing strategies to increase student composition skills
  • Share resource aligned to writing composition (due to large turnover and staff has already been trained)
  • Staff receive professional development training for the additional classroom interventions and data sources
  • Utilize standards-based grading in grades K-5 to create an environment of peer-engaging activities/learning
  • Utilize writing state standards in cross curricular instruction
Key Measures
  • Handouts kept on record and dispersed as needed
  • Lesson plans
  • NWEA/MAP test data
  • Observations/evaluations
  • Resource inventory
  • Stakeholder Input
  • Student assessment
  • Teacher 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