Map Name: 2025-2026 Erik Ramstad Middle School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2025 - 5/31/2026
Vision

Assuring learning for lifelong success.

Mission

To create members of society that are respectful, responsible, and ready to achieve academic and personal success.

Beliefs

We believe that every student is unique. We believe that with opportunity and our support, each student will build a foundation for success. We believe that students are more successful when they feel safe and families are involved.

Climate and Culture
Create and maintain an environment that fosters respect and responsibility with an emphasis on communication, engagement, and collaboration with all stakeholders.
Resources and Processes
Enhance professional practice through content PLCs, aligning graded work to prioritized standards, learning walks, and building familiarity with emergency operations and procedures.
Student Success
Provide academic opportunities and support by consistently tracking and monitoring student progress while following the district's outlined MTSS process.
Objectives
  • Create & maintain an environment that fosters respect & responsibility, focusing on communication, engagement, & collaboration with all stakeholders.
Objectives
  • Enhance professional practice through content PLCs, aligning graded work to prioritized standards learning walks & emergency operations and procedures
Objectives
  • Provide academic opportunities and support by consistently tracking and monitoring student progress while following MPS's outlined MTSS process.
Critical Initiative
  • Design a schedule of learning walks (peer observations) to strengthen collegial relationships & encourage collaboration of teaching strategies.
  • Enhance purposeful communication between staff students & families to celebrate successes & identify opportunities for growth to foster strong collaborative relationships across the school community.
Critical Initiative
  • Staff will engage in Learning Walks to collaborate with & learn from colleagues while focusing on instructional strategies, student engagement, & effective time management.
  • Staff will engage in their regularly scheduled weekly PLCs & utilize the MPS PLC form to guide their collaborative work.
  • Staff will take part in Emergency Operations Plan reviews and scheduled drills while also providing feedback to help strengthen & refine procedures.
Critical Initiative
  • Monitor student progress and provide timely interventions to support growth for all learners aligned with the MPS MTSS process.
Key Measures
  • Learning Walk Schedule (participation & feedback)
  • PBIS BOQ
  • Positive Parent Contact Spreadsheet
  • Student Engagement Survey
Key Measures
  • Assignment linked to prioritized standards
  • EOP (schedule, plans, and feedback)
  • Learning Walk Schedule (participation & feedback)
  • PLC Notecatcher
Key Measures
  • ND A+ Interim and Summative Data
  • Panorama Intervention Plans
  • Weekly Grade Checks
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