Map Name: 2024-2025 Pingree-Buchanan Elementary School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2024 - 5/31/2025
Vision

The Pingree-Buchanan School District believes in preparing all students for their future endeavors.

Mission

The Pingree-Buchanan School District will instill life-long learning through ownership, respect, and pride in education.

Beliefs

The Pingree-Buchanan School Districts believes all students have a desire to learn.

Culture
Develop a positive culture among staff, students, and community.
Staffing
Hire highly effective teachers and fill staff vacancies to best provide for the needs of our students with a full staff.
Professional Learning
Provide professional development and training for all employees (board members, administrators, teachers, non-certified staff) to continually improve in all areas of our school district.
Objectives
  • Provide opportunities to develop a positive culture among staff, students, and the community.
Objectives
  • Hire highly effective teachers and fill staff vacancies to best provide for the needs of our students with a full staff.
Objectives
  • Provide effective professional development and training for all employees of the district to continually improve in areas of need.
Critical Initiative
  • Provide opportunities for community involvement in our schools.
  • Provide team-building opportunities for staff and students.
Critical Initiative
  • Hire a K-12 Principal to help bridge the gap between the elementary and high school, to better support students and staff, and to help with new initiatives at both schools.
  • Hire an elementary counselor to meet the needs of students.
Critical Initiative
  • Continue to provide professional development opportunities for our new ELA curriculum as well as Science of Reading initiatives.
  • Create a professional development plan for teachers that meets the need of our district as a whole and is personalized for each teacher.
  • Have all board members attend the NDSBA Be Legendary School Board Training.
  • Have all teachers new to the profession be a part of a formal mentoring program.
Key Measures
  • Climate and Culture Surveys
  • Community participation at school events
  • Community support for school initiatives
  • Participation in team-building events.
Key Measures
  • Fulfilment of staff vacancy.
Key Measures
  • Attend ND SoR Literacy Summit
  • Attendance of Be Legendary School Board Training
  • Completion of ELA curriculum training
  • Completion of formal mentoring program.
  • Completion of Science of Reading Training
  • Participation in PD opportunities
  • School Board Member Self-Evaluations
  • Self-evaluation and formal evaluation
Personalized Learning
Provide students with personalized learning opportunities.
Objectives
  • Provide students with personalized learning opportunities to tailor to their individual needs and aspirations.
Critical Initiative
  • Hire staff to fill all current teaching vacancies.
  • Incorporate walk to learn opportunities in our elementary school to provide opportunities for students to learn at their ability level.
Key Measures
  • Fulfilment of staff vacancy.
  • NDSA assessment results
  • STAR assessment results
  • Student observations
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