Map Name: 2024-2025 South Heart High School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 7/1/2024 - 5/30/2025
Vision

To educate and inspire all learners to reach their full potential as responsible, productive, and respectful citizens.

Mission

To prepare each student 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 life-long commitment to LEARNING.

Academic Achievement
Ensuring students schoolwide are held to high academic expectations and engaging, rigorous curriculum to enhance student growth.
Systems of Support
To create and utilize a System of Support for schoolwide support of ALL learners academically and behaviorally.
Community and Culture
Working together with the community to build and foster a positive and safe learning environment for all stakeholders.
Objectives
  • Monitor student growth and educational progress.
  • Provide staff with professional development opportunities to deliver effective differentiated instructional strategies.
  • Provide students with rigorous, structured, and connected curriculum to develop a well balanced education.
Objectives
  • To create and utilize Systems of Support for schoolwide support of ALL learners academically and behaviorally.
Objectives
  • Communicate and engage community members throughout the school year.
  • Create a safe and positive environment for student well-being.
Critical Initiative
  • Integrating technology to enhance instruction.
  • Monitor student graduation progress.
  • Provide collaboration and PLC time for staff to analyze data from schoolwide assessments and state assessments.
  • Provide collaboration time to analyze and implement Prioritized Standards for each content area.
  • Provide professional development on research-based instructional strategies.
  • Provide students with differentiated learning opportunities.
Critical Initiative
  • Create a focused Professional Learning Community (PLC) calendar which provides staff with professional development specific to Systems of Support.
  • Create consistent academic and behavioral expectations to cultivate guiding principles for student success.
  • Upon graduation, students will possess the Essential Skills necessary to be productive citizens in society.
Critical Initiative
  • Informing all stakeholders about events, activities, achievements, and expectations for students.
  • Initiate activities within the school to promote community involvement.
  • Promote achievements of students and staff within the community.
  • Provide cohesive schoolwide expectations throughout the school.
  • Provide students and staff with common expectations and implementation of academic and behavioral expectations.
Key Measures
  • Classroom observations
  • Collaboration Team agendas and notes.
  • Cybersecurity instruction
  • ELEOT observations
  • Eligibility Reports
  • Lesson plans
  • North Dakota State Assessment data analysis
  • Schoolwide assessment data
  • Student engagement surveys
  • Teacher observations and walk through observations
Key Measures
  • Career and Tech Education elective enrollments
  • Consensus of PLC norms and procedures.
  • Documentation of Community Service Hours
  • Eligibility Reports
  • Graduation Survey
  • Job shadows
  • North Dakota Choice Ready framework
  • PLC agendas
  • PLC attendance log
  • PLC Engagement Survey
  • Professional Development Logs
  • Student engagement surveys
Key Measures
  • 7-10 Grade Level Team Meeting Notes
  • Climate and Culture Parent surveys
  • Extra/Co-curricular activity Participation
  • Graduation requirements
  • Intervention program referrals
  • Log entries
  • Office referrals
  • Parent Volunteers
  • Peer Mentoring/Tutoring
  • School Media stats
  • South Heart Scoop
  • Student engagement 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