Map Name: 2023-2024 South Heart High Virtual Academy Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 5/1/2023 - 4/30/2024
Vision

To educate and inspire all learners to reach their full potential as responsible, productive, and respected 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 life long success is attained when the entire school community together challenges, models, and instills life-long commitment to LEARNING.

Academic Achievement
To provide students with the tools to choose career and/or educational opportunities following graduation.
Choice Ready
To provide students with the tools to choose career and/or educational opportunities following graduation.
Community and Culture
Working together with the community to build and foster a positive and safe learning environment for all stake holders.
Objectives
  • Analyze and track student data.
  • Increase schoolwide vertical and horizontal alignment between all grades.
Objectives
  • Provide students with opportunities upon graduation to be qualified as Choice Ready in accordance with the Every Student Succeeds Act.
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
  • Integrating technology to enhance instruction.
  • Provide collaboration time for staff to analyze data from schoolwide assessments and state assessments.
  • Provide collaboration time to develop Power Standards for each content area.
  • Provide professional development for cross-curricular instruction.
Critical Initiative
  • Students will develop a four-year rolling career plan based upon career exploration experiences and annual career interest surveys.
  • Upon graduation, students will possess the Essential Skills necessary to be productive citizens in society.
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
  • Classroom Observations
  • Collaboration notes and agendas
  • Lesson Plans
  • ND State Assessment Data
  • Power Standards
  • Schoolwide Assessments
  • Student Technology Samples
  • Teacher Feedback
Key Measures
  • Completion of Annual Rolling Career Plan
  • Graduate Survey
  • ND Choice Ready framework tool
Key Measures
  • Building Level Support Team Referrals
  • Community Survey
  • Parent Survey
  • Student Engagement Surveys
  • 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