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

To prepare students to be successful in a global economy and be positive contributing members of local community and be Choice Ready for college career and/or life

Mission

SWCHS personalizes learning and our focus is on student preparedness for life post high school

Beliefs

We believe that all students can learn and go on to become positive contributing members in local and global communities.   Students should leave us with the ability to communicate, collaborate,  and think critically.

School Safety and Culture
1) Create a safe and collaborative culture and positive relationships between teachers and students that promotes learning and a choice ready student
Effective Engaging instru
2) Establish Effective Teaching in Every Classroom
Post High School
3) Ensure students have the skills/resources to go directly into the workforce to on to higher Education
Objectives
  • Provide a safe and collaborative culture and positive relationships between teachers and students that promotes learning and a choice ready student
Objectives
  • Establish Effective teaching in every classroom where personalized learning is the core of our belief
Objectives
  • Ensure students have the skills/resources to go directly into the workforce to on to higher Education
Critical Initiative
  • Provide students and stakeholders with a formal input procedure for sharing perceptions regarding school safety or culture
  • Staff will actively engage with students during instruction and work on creating an environment that promotes positive working relationships with all students
  • Students - Gather student input regarding perception on issues with school safety through student surveys
Critical Initiative
  • Create an environment where every staff member is working on student engagement strategies with every student daily
  • Students are provided with a highly engaging and challenging curriculum that prepares them with skills and knowledge for life past high school
Critical Initiative
  • students will have the opportunity to explore job resources and career pathways with a high school counselor
  • Students will participate in Career explorations and SEL programming through Why Try
Key Measures
  • Provide stakeholders with a remind account
  • Student Survey and Parent surveys
Key Measures
  • Students will be actively engaged in learning
Key Measures
  • Students have a clear career pathway choice
  • Why Try Curriculum
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