Kensal High School

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2025-2026 Kensal High School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2025 - 5/31/2026
Vision

That every student will achieve at their highest academic potential.

Mission

To inspire and educate each child to their full potential in a cooperative fashion.

Beliefs

We believe in setting high expectations and demanding a quality work ethic.  We require all students to treat each other with dignity and respect.

Student Engagement
Eleot training and student engagement observations will support student engagement best practices and result in differentiating instruction.
Stakeholder Engagement
Professional Development time will be made available to provide in-service training in Cognia Eleot observations.
Professional Development
Provide programs for professional development toward advanced certification, especially in the core subject of mathematics strategies.
Objectives
  • Eleot training and student engagement observations will support student engagement best practices and result in differentiating instruction
  • Provide assessment tools and rubrics to measure student learning in computer science education.
Objectives
  • All Cohorts will cooperate with one another in a collaborative nature improving the culture of KPS.
Objectives
  • Eleot training and student engagement observations will support student engagement best practices and result in differentiating instruction.
  • Provide effective mathematics instruction strategies to increase student proficiency by participating in ongoing professional development.
  • Provide professional development workshops on computer science education, curriculum development and effective instructional techniques.
  • provide programs for professional development toward advanced certification, especially in the core subject of mathematics strategies.
Critical Initiative
  • Implement rubrics and assessments to measure student learning and conduct regular evaluations to ensure alignment with ND Educational Standards.
  • Provide in-service time for Cognia Eleot training and observations.
Critical Initiative
  • Administration will communicate weekly and monthly through social media, calendars, and newsletters to keep all stakeholders informed and therefore enabling a greater sense of cooperation.
  • Administration will provide leadership opportunities.
  • Cohorts will meet weekly to share best practices.
  • Staff will participate in a book study on leadership.
Critical Initiative
  • "Professional development will be provided to all Kensal Public School staff through our REA title ""Features of Effective Math Instruction."""
  • Provide professional development in Autism Spectrum Disorder and develop strategies to implement school wide plan.
  • Provide professional development in mathematics strategies.
  • Provide professional development on cyber security, computer literacy curriculum development, and instructional techniques for computer literacy through Edutech.
Key Measures
  • Eleot observations and instructional practices.
  • Evidence of student learning of computer literacy
Key Measures
  • Cooperation among all key stakeholders
  • Evidence of Cooperation and Collegiality.
Key Measures
  • Improved instructional Practices
  • Observation of staff supporting autistic students.
  • Test scores indicate improved teaching strategies.
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