South Heart Elementary School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2022-2023 South Heart Elementary School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 5/1/2022 - 5/18/2023
Vision

To educate and inspire all LEARNERS to reach their full potential as a responsible, productive, and respected citizen

Mission

To prepare students to persevere and succeed in an ever-changing world by developing a commitment to LEARNING

Beliefs

South Heart School believes that lifelong success is attained when the entire school community together challenges, models, and instills a life-long commitment to LEARNING

Technology
Ensuring school wide students are prepared for a digital society.
Academic Achievement
Ensuring students schoolwide are held to high academic expectations and are engaged in rigorous curriculum to show student growth.
Schoolwide Services
Supporting students schoolwide to ensure equal access to supports so all students are academically and behaviorally successful.
Objectives
  • Provide students school wide with relevant learning experiences that require their use of technology.
Objectives
  • Analyze and track student data.
  • Increase schoolwide vertical and horizontal alignment between all grades.
Objectives
  • Creating and utilizing the BLST forms in order to refer students for academic and/or behavior supports.
Critical Initiative
  • Provide professional learning on relevant activities and technology intergration.
Critical Initiative
  • Analyze and track student data.
  • Integrating age-appropriate technology to enhance instruction.
  • Provide collaboration time for staff to analyze data from schoolwide assessments and state assessments.
  • Provide collaboration time to help drive vertical and horizontal alignment for developing mastery standards for each content area .
  • Provide professional development on required curriculums.
Critical Initiative
  • Tracking student progress to ensure student growth is occurring and students are referred for further evaluation when necessary.
  • Update and train staff on referral process for extra support of students.
Key Measures
  • Classroom Observations
  • Lesson Plans
  • Teacher Feedback
Key Measures
  • Classroom Observations
  • Collaboration notes and agendas
  • Lesson Plans
  • Mastery Standards
  • North Dakota State Assessment
  • Schoolwide Assessments
  • Student Technology Samples
  • Teacher Feedback
Key Measures
  • BLST Referral Forms
  • Intervention Form
  • Schoolwide Assessments
Community & Culture
Working with the community to build and foster a positive and safe learning environment for all stakeholders.
Objectives
  • Communicate and involve community members throughout the school year.
  • Create an environment for students to take responsibility for their own learning.
  • Increase student responsibility for their own learning and behavioral expectations.
Critical Initiative
  • Informing all stakeholders about events, curriculum, and expectations of the school.
  • Provide cohesive schoolwide expectations throughout the school.
  • Provide staff schoolwide with common expectations and implementation of academic and behavioral expectations.
Key Measures
  • BLST Referral Forms
  • Classroom Observations
  • Community Survey
  • Parent Survey
  • Student Engagement Survey
  • Teacher Feedback
  • Test Data
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