Fort Yates Middle School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2023-2024 Fort Yates Middle School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 5/1/2023 - 4/30/2024
Vision

Fort Yates Public School will develop lifelong learners by educating the whole child.

Mission

Fort Yates Public School will develop students' intellectual, emotional, social, physical, artistic, creative, and cultural potential.

Beliefs

#EveryStudentEveryDay

Student Learning
If staff employ best-practice strategies, then learners will demonstrate academic growth.
School Culture & Climate
If we create a culture and climate that promotes a safe and supportive environment, then students and staff will experience a sense of belonging and ownership.
Community Engagement
If we want to have positive relationships with families and community partners then we need to inform, involve, and engage families and community partners.
Objectives
  • Staff will employ best practice strategies to increase student achievement.
Objectives
  • Staff will create a culture and climate that promotes a safe, supportive, healthy environment.
Objectives
  • Engage every family so that we can engage every learner, in every classroom, every day.
Critical Initiative
  • Annual plan for supplemental services for remediation and enrichment
  • College and career readiness plan
  • Create common learning challenges that are practiced schoolwide
  • Employ MTSS pathways for ELA and Math
  • Establish clear expectations for Tier I instructional practices
  • Implement new core curriculum for core subjects and intervention resources
  • Innovative use of technology
  • Provide personal coaching for staff
  • Provide professional learning for resources, individual intructional practices, and
  • Synthesize and analyze data to drive student achievement schoolwide goals.
Critical Initiative
  • Adopt a positive behavioral intervention support system in support of the restorative justice practices.
  • Adopt a social emotional learning curriculum schoolwide.
  • Clearly defined roles and responsibilities of all staff
  • Create a respectful atmosphere and address clearly defined roles, responsibilities and communication of staff.
  • Create a schoolwide schedule in advance so all staff and students are informed
  • Create a social network among staff that includes wellness.
  • Daily work routines, norms and expectations are communicated to staff
  • Establish trauma informed practices
  • Provide one to one mentoring between students and staff.
  • Provide safety information and resources for disadvantaged students.
Critical Initiative
  • Establish a useful two way communication tool for stakeholders
  • Establish partnerships with the local and extended communities.
  • Host regular community engagement activities to reach all stakeholders
  • Provide professional learning opportunities for stakeholders to share cultural knowledge, customs, and values of the local communities.
Key Measures
  • Achievement Data
  • Benchmark Data
  • Curriculum Mapping
  • Explicit Lesson Plans
  • Formal and informal observations
  • Screening and progress monitoring procedure
  • Student Engagement Survey
  • Surveys
Key Measures
  • Achievement Data
  • Curriculum Mapping
  • Formal and informal observations
  • Implementation of a system
  • Professional Learning attendance
  • Screening and progress monitoring procedure
  • Staff Attendance
  • Staff Handbook
  • Stakeholder Feedback
  • Student Engagement Survey
  • Surveys
  • Wellness goals
Key Measures
  • Attendance Tracking
  • Calendared activities
  • Implementation of a system
  • List of community partnerships
  • Review and update community resources
  • Stakeholder Feedback
  • 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