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

The Solen School District will provide opportunities for all students to develop their skills and talents to become productive citizens and lifelong learners.


Mission

Solen School District commits to preparing our students to be college or career ready by providing learners with opportunities to develop their skills and knowledge, along with an understanding of the Dakota culture.

Beliefs

We believe in providing high-standards based learning, developing positive student self-image, promoting pride of Dakota culture, providing a safe and nurturing environment, and encouraging tiyospaye to support the education of our learners.

Graduation Rate
Focus on providing students with supports to be college, career, and/or military ready.
Culture & Climate
WE aspire to be a strong and supportive team; a setting where people want to come and a place where people want to stay.
Student Success
WE will aim to become a school district that develops the whole child; a place where each child can succeed.
Objectives
  • Provide students with opportunities to be college, career, and/or military ready.
Objectives
  • Create a positive in-district culture & climate.
Objectives
  • Implement systems, structures and practices that will enhance student success.
Critical Initiative
  • College and trade program tours/visits
  • Develop a portrait of a Solen High School graduate
  • Dual Credit College Courses/Alternative coursework through partnerships
  • ND Choice Ready Plans
  • Student work study opportunities
  • Teacher Mentors
  • Trimester Schedule
Critical Initiative
  • Create agreed upon staff norms with the staff.
  • Define the roles and responsibilities of our school's leadership team.
  • Implement best practices across all curricular areas.
  • Provide an induction program for all new certified staff to the district.
  • Provide consistency for students and staff by using the same language and school expectations.
  • Routine admin, counseling, RTI coordinator meetings to monitor student's social emotional, mental health, physical health, and absenteeism.
  • "To improve principal/staff ""sense of team""/teamwork."
Critical Initiative
  • Assess adult and student technology utilization as well as student technological practices.
  • Ensure that the entire MTSS process is put in place, in both schools, in an effort to give support to struggling students as well as to find out the barriers to their academic learning.
  • Ensure that the MTSS-B process is put in place in an effort to identify students with social-emotional/counseling needs and to provide students with appropriate interventions.
  • Implement student and community supports to promote student daily attendance.
  • Implement the models and practices (i.e. proactive MTSS-Tier 1 & Tier 2) that must be implemented in all classrooms EVERYDAY.
  • Increase the Graduation Rate at Solen High School.
  • Increase the Student Engagement at Solen High School.
  • Provide High School Students with opportunities to be College, Career, and/or Military Ready by utilizing the ND Choice Ready Frameworks.
Key Measures
  • Culture and Climate Committee.
  • Established Team Rubric.
  • Measure culture and climate.
  • Schoolwide norms.
  • Staff Evaluations.
  • Staff Surveys.
  • Support and provide professional learning.
Key Measures
  • Career Exploration Courses.
  • ChatGPT ethics and policy.
  • Curriculum Maps.
  • Daily attendance report.
  • District SEL expectation timeline.
  • Dual Credit Student Registration.
  • Formal Assessment Data (NWEA/NDSA).
  • IEP goal/objective data growth.
  • Lesson Plans.
  • List of priority/power standards.
  • Maintain new school district website.
  • Mentor Logs.
  • Monarch Project.
  • Monitor student achievement data.
  • Parent Communication Logs.
  • Provide differentiated instruction based on needs.
  • RTI Intervention Plans.
  • RU Ready ND data.
  • SRO documentation.
  • Student behavior data.
  • Student counseling data.
  • Student incentive opportunities lists.
  • Student sign-up sheets.
  • Student work study opportunities.
  • Truancy Report.
  • Tutoring Logs.
  • UND Trio Program Presentations and Visits.
  • UTTC MOU.
Stakeholder Engagement
WE will seek to be a school district consistently supported by our parents, our guardians and our greater community.
Leadership
WE will strive to be committed and purposeful leaders with the knowledge and skills that will take our school district to higher levels of success and achievement.
Objectives
  • Increase Community/Parent/Guardian Engagement.
Objectives
  • Develop Leaders With The Knowledge And Skills That Will Take The School District to Higher Levels of Success and Achievement.
Critical Initiative
  • Continue to teach the rich cultural history of the Native American Community.
  • Ensure that parents/guardians know the “Choice Ready Goals/Requirements” and graduation goals/requirements for their children.
  • Provide opportunities to build and maintain relationships with stakeholders and students.
  • Support equal access to a guaranteed, viable curriculum that includes immersive learning opportunities.
  • Support the development and implementation of instructional practices and resources including evidence-based curriculum to support engagement and personalized learning.
Critical Initiative
  • Contracted guidance counselor to enhance skill building with students in grades 6-8.
  • Create student crisis management plan
  • Define the roles and responsibilities of the District Leadership Team.
  • "The administrative team should establish, agree to and adhere to administrative norms."
  • The administrative team should increase communications with both staff and parents/guardians.
  • To continue to develop district leaders (Supt, Sec. Principal and Elem. Principal) with an increased set of skills and knowledge.
  • Update district resources that support social and emotional learning.
Key Measures
  • Activity sign in sheets.
  • Culture Advisor Contract.
  • Ensure staff conduct positive parent contacts.
  • List of events offered/Event flyers.
  • Parent surveys.
  • Parent/Family contact logs.
  • Partner with local businesses and tribal entities.
  • Portrait of a Graduate.
Key Measures
  • Continuous improvement meeting minutes.
  • Data dig and retreat.
  • Monthly coaching session with education consultant
  • Monthly stakeholder events.
  • School website/app/ and/or data.
  • Solen Public School District Strategic Plan.
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