Map Name: 2023-2024 DLB Elementary Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 5/1/2023 - 5/1/2024
Vision

Students will have success for today and be prepared for tomorrow.

Mission

Instilling values and providing opportunities that empower learners for lifelong success.

Beliefs

As a district, we value respect, responsibility, honesty, accountability, teamwork, and empathy.

Learning Environment
If becoming a district that uses data to drive instruction and change is a priority, then we must develop a plan to create this culture.
Stakeholder Communication
If communication with all stakeholders is something the district strives to achieve, then we must ensure we have open lines of communication between the school and stakeholders.
Educational Excellence
If creating a culture of excellence is a priority, then we must ensure that all students are receiving the skills and instruction needed to be successful in the future.
Objectives
  • Create an environment that is safe and healthy for learning.
  • Develop a culture where data drives instructional practices.
Objectives
  • Involve stakeholders in the process of school improvement.
Objectives
  • Develop and implement a program with innovative practices to prepare students for the future.
  • Provide more rigorous instruction in reading that is aligned with standards to improve overall reading scores.
Critical Initiative
  • Determine appropriate assessments that align to standards and report cards to ensure students are assessed accurately.
  • Determine or develop appropriate diagnostics to determine interventions needed.
  • Develop a testing schedule to drive instruction and interventions.
  • Establish school-wide SEL curriculum, expectations and practices with fidelity to provide a safe and healthy learning environment.
  • Provide professional development to ensure all staff understand data extraction and use.
  • Use data to determine whether SEL curriculum and interventions are working.
Critical Initiative
  • Determine a streamline way to communicate with stakeholders and ensure there is two-way communication.
  • Develop a survey to successfully get stakeholder feedback that relates to our improvement goals.
Critical Initiative
  • Develop a program to get community members more involved with the school to showcase workforce skills.
  • Encourage students to ask questions and explore those questions to build knowledge of real world skills in the school setting through all grade levels.
  • Implement a system of assessments to ensure Reading program is effective.
  • Implement interventions that are more focused on student need based on data.
  • Provide ongoing professional development for Reading strategies, the Science of Reading, and Reading curriculum.
Key Measures
  • Completed testing schedule that teachers follow
  • NDSA Testing Results
  • STAR testing
  • Student Log Entries
  • Teacher PD survey
Key Measures
  • Stakeholder Survey
Key Measures
  • NDSA Testing Results
  • STAR testing
  • STEAM activity numbers per classroom
  • Teacher PD survey
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