Map Name: 2023-2024 North Star High School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 5/1/2023 - 5/31/2024
Vision

Productive learning today . . . successful living tomorrow.

Mission

At North Star we believe in being responsible, respectful, considerate, and perseverant in our pursuit of personal and academic excellence. 

Beliefs

All students can learn in a safe and productive environment.

Effective Instruction
If our school has effective administrators, teachers and paraprofessionals, everyone will benefit as learners.
Viable Curriculum
If we provide a guaranteed and viable curriculum then students will see education growth.
Healthy Culture
If we provide students and staff with a safe, supportive, organized, and collaborative school we create a healthy culture
Objectives
  • Implement opportunities to work with colleagues
  • Provide professional development opportunities
  • Utilize evaluation tool for all leaders
Objectives
  • Create a system using ND Standards, proficiency scales and assessments to help all leaners grow academically
  • Provide opportunities for academic engagement
Objectives
  • Create a safe school environment for all individuals
  • Create organized systems for all individuals
  • Provide a supportive environment for all individuals
  • Provide collaborative opportunities for all individuals
Critical Initiative
  • Evaluate administration and teachers using the Marshall Evaluation Tool
  • Evaluate peers using the eleot or a similar tool
  • Evaluation paraprofessionals using a school created evaluation form
  • Hold monthly staff meetings
  • Implement Professional Learning Communities
  • Offer leaders a variety of professional development options
Critical Initiative
  • Leaders encourage academic growth through goal setting
  • Leaders provide collaborative opportunities for learners
  • Leaders provide visitation opportunities for stakeholders to participate in students' learning activities
  • Leaders use North Dakota State Standards to guide instruction
  • Leaders use the standards to address the 21st Century Skills
  • Leaders will monitor learner's progress of standards using proficiency scales
  • Learners are provided interventions when needed
  • Learners set realistic learning goals with support from the leaders
Critical Initiative
  • Add cameras to all hallways and commons areas throughout the school
  • Continually meet with Professional Learning Communities.
  • Continue to provide guidance on effective social-emotional goals and progress monitoring for students with disabilities to determine effectiveness of interventions and plans
  • Create an organized system for storing resources, materials and supplies school-wide
  • Create procedures for new staff and students
  • Hold monthly meetings for teachers and staff
  • Implement a curriculum rotation system
  • Implement a Social and Emotional Learning curriculum
  • Implement a system that notifies stakeholders of emergencies and important information
  • Implement Leadership, PBIS, Data, and Cognia PLCs
  • Install an updated emergency system in every room for safety.
  • Keep doors locked throughout the day. Guests must contact office upon entry
  • Make volunteer opportunities available to stakeholders
  • Offer AED/CPR/First Aid Training to all staff
  • Participate in the state mentoring program
  • Promote Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
  • Provide afterschool homework help
  • Provide mental health resources for all individuals
  • Provide PD in Zones of Regulation, sensory rooms, Nurtured Heart, Crisis Prevention & Intervention, restorative practices, and social skills instruction
  • Provide staff training to schools for mental health, behavior health and social emotional training as requested
  • Provide training and guidance in Functional Behavior Assessments and effective individualized behavior plans
  • Provide training and scholarship funds to schools implementing sensory rooms and sensory processing breaks for students throughout the school
  • Purchase a school app to provide information, schedules, and daily news to all stakeholders
  • Support staff attendance at school-wide and area-wide workshops to promote social-emotional learning
  • Utilize the School Resource Officer
Key Measures
  • Administration create schedule and agenda
  • Allow time for teachers to observe
  • Create an evaluation tool
  • Offer workshops, classes, book studies, etc.
  • Provide time to meet
  • Select evaluation tool
  • Use the evaluation tool
  • Use the Marshall Evaluation Tool
  • Yearly meeting schedule
Key Measures
  • Create goal setting sheets
  • Develop Lessons
  • Goal setting sheet
  • Identify the skills in the standards
  • Log collaboration opportunities
  • Log of classroom visitors/helpers
  • Log skills in each classroom
  • Offer homework help room
  • Provide Title I services
  • Track the standards
  • Use relevant curriculum to address standards
  • Using a scale for each student
  • Using data to find gaps
Key Measures
  • Allow time for counseling sessions
  • Cognia PLC holds meetings
  • Continue to fund the app
  • Create a list of resources and location
  • Create Checklists
  • Data PLC holds meetings
  • Documentation of staff attendance at PD workshops
  • Documentation of training opportunities
  • Enroll and complete program
  • Events posted on Live Feed
  • Expectations posted
  • File monitoring to identify progress of ED goals
  • Find resources for support
  • Individuals acknowledged with shout-outs
  • Invite TCMC employees to train
  • Leadership PLC holds meetings
  • Log of classroom visitors/helpers
  • Make a curriculum rotation
  • PBIS PLC holds meetings
  • Provide time to meet
  • Purchase and receive training on a curriculum
  • Purchase needed materials
  • Purchase new equipment
  • School Board continue to fund position
  • Staff provide additional worktime with students
  • Training documentation supported by LRSC
  • Update information on a daily basis.
  • View analytics of system
  • View footage when necessary
  • Visitors buzz in and check in at the office
  • Yearly meeting schedule
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