Williston High School (Closed 2021)

School Strategy Map

Map Name: 2020-2021 Williston High School Continuous Improvement Plan
Time Period: 5/1/2020 - 5/31/2021
Vision

WPSD #1 vision is  to prepare students to graduate and achieve personal success. 

Mission

WPSD #1 mission is to prepare students to be successful at the next level or education, work, and life. 

Beliefs

We believe all students can learn and grow with equitable opportunities.  It is our responsibility to provide a supportive learning environment and create opportunities. 

Culture and Climate
Implementing Safe & Civil Schools procedures, Advisory, and SEL curriculum can improve safety, belonging, and the overall climate and culture for our entire student population
Stakeholder Engagement
Increasing stakeholder communication about navigating the school's technology, supporting their student(s), and creating a community can improve climate and culture and student achievement.
Next Step Preparation
Increasing student awareness and focusing on college and career readiness will increase the student buy-in to our educational mission, educational pathways, and overall student success.
Objectives
  • Create, implement, monitor Safe and Civil procedures to increase a safe and supportive environment
  • Create and implement advisory course to improve student SEL and school culture
Objectives
  • Provide resources to parents in a variety of ways to increase stakeholder communication
  • Increase communication with families using research and one app to increase engagement and academics
  • Provide weekly reports to guardians and students on student progress.
  • Provide teachers with necessary professional development to utilize Odysseyware and safescan.
Objectives
  • Increase student awareness about career and post secondary opportunities
  • Provide transition sessions to students with the career counselor.
  • Provide students with additional career/college readiness opportunities.
Critical Initiative
  • Provide the Safe and Civil team with professional development in order to implement the program. The team will provide professional development and training to the entire staff.
  • Create procedures in common areas from staff observations and data to increase safety and culture. Reviewed by team bi-annually.
  • Increase teacher buy-in and consistency in implementing procedures
  • Teaching, monitoring, interacting positively, and correcting unwanted student behaviors in common areas conducted by all staff members
  • Design and revise advisory course to improve adapting student and school culture needs.
  • Educate teachers and staff on SEL purpose and curriculum
  • Implement District’s new SEL program to address growing mental health concerns.
Critical Initiative
  • Create informational sessions for parents/guardians about navigating the school's technology programs, supporting students, available support programs during Open House and Parent/Teacher Conference
  • Providing families with resources like informational brochures and /or regular emails about policies, procedures, and hot topics to increase parental knowledge
  • provide professional development to staff about engaging families and the unified platform
  • Utilize the strategies for family engagement on a regularly scheduled basis by classroom teachers.
  • Use safescan to track student hours.
  • Use Odysseyware reports to track student academic progress.
  • Use goal sheets and timelines to monitor progress toward graduation.
Critical Initiative
  • Invest in a career counseling position
  • Provide students with career cluster pathways which are designed to help students understand what courses to take to prepare for the next level of career or college
  • Create community partnerships to connect students with community internships, job shadows, and summer work programs by collaborating with the Youth Employment Committee
  • Provide opportunities for exposure with career expos, job fairs, career panels etc.
  • utilize the Ramp Up to Readiness program
  • Provide resources to students and parents
  • Utilize the program Virtual Job Shadow to increase student engagement and knowledge in career exploration
  • Schedule career counselor to meet with students bi-weekly.
  • Provide internships for credit opportunities for students.
  • Utilize Virtual Job Shadow program to increase student opportunity in career exploration and planning.
Key Measures
  • Participation
  • Family surveys
  • Student Surveys
  • Ramp up to Readiness activities, post sec planning
  • Registration
  • Graduation Rates
  • Number of Community Partnerships
  • Leaving high school with certificate or progress
  • Attendance
  • Pre/Post survey
  • Pre and post survey
  • Observations and Instructional Rounds
  • Surveys
  • Growth Data
  • Failure rates
  • behavior logs in PowerSchool
  • decrease in detention / coyote day program use
  • Meeting minutes
  • Observations and Procedures
  • Climate and culture surveys
  • Teacher evaluation
  • Observation of Common Areas
  • Action plan
  • Meetings
  • Data
  • PLC Notes
  • Office Referrals
  • Coyote Day Program Use
  • Master Schedule / Beyond the School Day Hours
  • Student Data
  • Cognia Survey Data
  • Periodic Procedure Check by Staff
  • Belonging Survey
  • Comparison Data
  • Pathway documents
  • Program data
  • Virtual Job Shadow Data
  • Observation and Instructional Rounds
  • Teacher Evaluation Process
  • Student Grade Reports
  • Formative and Summative Data
  • Stakeholder Surveys
  • Parent surveys
  • Professional development
  • Family participation
Key Measures
  • Data
  • Meetings
  • Action plan
  • Teacher evaluation
  • Climate and culture surveys
  • Observation of common areas
  • Observations and Procedures
  • Meeting minutes
  • decrease in detention / coyote day program use
  • behavior logs in PowerSchool
  • Failure rates
  • Growth Data
  • PLC Notes
  • Surveys
  • Observations and Instructional Rounds
  • Pre and post survey
  • Pre/Post survey
  • Attendance
  • Leaving high school with certificate or progress
  • Number of Community Partnerships
  • Registration
  • Ramp up to Readiness activities, post sec planning
  • Student Surveys
  • Graduation Rates
  • Participation
  • Family surveys
  • Teacher Evaluation Process
  • Observation and Instructional Rounds
  • Virtual Job Shadow Data
  • Program data
  • Pathway documents
  • Comparison Data
  • Belonging Survey
  • Periodic Procedure Check by Staff
  • Cognia Survey Data
  • Student Data
  • Master Schedule / Beyond the School Day Hours
  • Student Grade Reports
  • Office Referrals
  • Coyote Day Program Use
  • Formative and Summative Data
  • Family participation
  • Professional development
  • Parent surveys
  • Stakeholder Surveys
  • Safescan Weekly Report
  • Weekly Email / Phone contact with parents
  • Weekly Odysseyware Reports
  • Participation in programs and activities
  • Credits for workplace reflection/ skill building
  • Career Counselor
  • Teachers update goal sheet and timelines.
  • Graduation rates and choice ready data.
  • Student graduation rate
  • Student hourly data
Key Measures
  • Participation
  • Family surveys
  • Student Surveys
  • Ramp up to Readiness activities, post sec planning
  • Graduation Rates
  • Registration
  • Number of Community Partnerships
  • Leaving high school with certificate or progress
  • Attendance
  • Pre/Post survey
  • Pre and post survey
  • Observations and Instructional Rounds
  • Surveys
  • Growth Data
  • Failure rates
  • behavior logs in PowerSchool
  • Meeting minutes
  • decrease in detention / coyote day program use
  • Observations and Procedures
  • Climate and culture surveys
  • Teacher evaluation
  • Observation of Common Areas
  • Action plan
  • Data
  • Meetings
  • PLC notes
  • Coyote Day Program Use
  • Office Referrals
  • Master Schedule / Beyond the School Day Hours
  • Student Data
  • Cognia Survey Data
  • Periodic Procedure Check by Staff
  • Comparison Data
  • Belonging Survey
  • Program data
  • Pathway documents
  • Observation and Instructional Rounds
  • Virtual Job Shadow Data
  • Student Grade Reports
  • Teacher Evaluation Process
  • Formative and summative data
  • Parent surveys
  • Stakeholder Surveys
  • Family participation
  • Professional development
  • Student hourly data
  • Graduation rates and choice ready data.
  • Teachers update goal sheet and timelines.
  • Student graduation rate
  • Credits for workplace reflection/ skill building
  • Career counselor
  • Participation in programs and activities
  • Weekly Odysseyware Reports
  • Safescan Weekly Report
  • Weekly Email / Phone contact with parents
Academic Achievement
Using data to drive instruction will increase student's academic achievement.
Continuous Improvement
Using data to drive instruction will increase student's academic achievement.
Objectives
  • Implement departmental PLC with data driven decision making to improve programs/increase achievement
  • Provide continued PD for the NDMTSS team and use academic pathways to support data driven decisions
  • Provide students with goals and timelines to help them reach the goal of graduation.
  • Update math curriculum to provide higher level math opportunities for students.
Objectives
  • Create department action plans focused on math and reading to improve programs/increase achievement
  • Utilize NDMTSS and Safe and Civil as intervention strategies to support data driven instruction.
Critical Initiative
  • Provide professional development on a variety of topics including student engagement, utilizing formative assessments to drive instruction, collaborating in PLC groups, and utilizing data to evaluate
  • Providing time for teachers to collaborate on continuous improvement, data, etc. For example: Tech Thursday, Adventure Staffing, and c2g.
  • Engage in weekly PLC meetings to clarify what is being taught and analyze formative and summative assessments to drive instruction for individual students.
  • provide continued training for academic pathways
  • provide training for behavioral interventions
  • Engage in regular meetings to evaluate the universal data, evaluate program effectiveness, and establish tier 2.
  • Utilize tools in Odysseyware and personal conversations to motivate students.
  • Hire a math teacher to help write the curriculum and teach at the alternative school.
Critical Initiative
  • Departments create the action plans for increasing reading / math / programming which include specific steps for implementation and a focus for teacher collaboration
  • Provide professional development on utilizing formative assessments to drive instruction, collaborating in PLC groups, and utilizing data to evaluate program success
Key Measures
  • Meetings
  • Data
  • Action plan
  • Teacher evaluation
  • Climate and culture surveys
  • Observations and Procedures
  • Observation of Common Areas
  • decrease in detention / coyote day program use
  • Meeting minutes
  • behavior logs in PowerSchool
  • Failure rates
  • Growth Data
  • Surveys
  • PLC Notes
  • Observations and Instructional Rounds
  • Pre and post survey
  • Pre/Post survey
  • Attendance
  • Number of Community Partnerships
  • Leaving high school with certificate or progress
  • Registration
  • Ramp up to Readiness activities, post sec planning
  • Student Surveys
  • Graduation Rates
  • Family surveys
  • Participation
  • Teacher Evaluation Process
  • Virtual Job Shadow Data
  • Observation and Instructional Rounds
  • Pathway documents
  • Program data
  • Belonging Survey
  • Comparison Data
  • Periodic Procedure Check by Staff
  • Cognia Survey Data
  • Student Data
  • Master Schedule / Beyond the School Day Hours
  • Student Grade Reports
  • Office Referrals
  • Coyote Day Program Use
  • Formative and summative data
  • Professional development
  • Family participation
  • Stakeholder Surveys
  • Parent surveys
  • Weekly Email / Phone contact with parents
  • Weekly Odysseyware Reports
  • Participation in programs and activities
  • Credits for workplace reflection/ skill building
  • Career Counselor
  • Student graduation rate
  • Teachers update goal sheet and timelines.
  • Safescan Weekly Report
  • Student hourly data
  • Graduation rates and choice ready data.
Key Measures
  • Data
  • Meetings
  • Action plan
  • Teacher evaluation
  • Climate and culture surveys
  • Observations and Procedures
  • Observation of common areas
  • Meeting minutes
  • decrease in detention / coyote day program use
  • behavior logs in PowerSchool
  • Failure rates
  • Growth Data
  • Formative and summative data
  • Surveys
  • PLC Notes
  • Observations and Instructional Rounds
  • Pre and post survey
  • Pre/Post survey
  • Attendance
  • Number of Community Partnerships
  • Leaving high school with certificate or progress
  • Registration
  • Ramp up to Readiness activities, post sec planning
  • Student Surveys
  • Graduation Rates
  • Family surveys
  • Participation
  • Teacher Evaluation Process
  • Student Grade Reports
  • Observation and Instructional Rounds
  • Pathway documents
  • Virtual Job Shadow Data
  • Program data
  • Comparison Data
  • Belonging Survey
  • Periodic Procedure Check by Staff
  • Cognia Survey Data
  • Student Data
  • Master Schedule / Beyond the School Day Hours
  • Office Referrals
  • Coyote Day Program Use
  • Family participation
  • Stakeholder Surveys
  • Professional development
  • Parent surveys
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