Williston Middle School (Closed 2021)

School Strategy Map

Map Name: WMS 19-20
Time Period: 8/20/2019 - 5/22/2020
Vision

To welcome and celebrate the individually of students staff parents and community. 

Mission

To prepare students to be successful at the next level of education work and life.

Beliefs

We educate with passion in a safe and respectful environment strive to educate with the highest level of technology and pledge to prepare children to graduate and achieve personal success.

Mathematics
Provide effective instruction in mathematical skills to support student learning.
Literacy
Provide effective literacy strategies to support student learning across the curriculum.
Culture and Climate
Use Safe and Civil practices to promote respectful responsible and safe learning environments.
Objectives
  • Engage students in regular practice with foundational mathematics skills.
  • Develop students' inductive and deductive reasoning skills when solving authentic math problems.
  • Provide additional academic support for students struggling in mathematics classes and assessments.
Objectives
  • Provide additional academic support for students struggling in language arts classes & assessments.
  • Implement cross-curricular literacy strategies to strengthen student learning.
  • Implement cross-curricular reading comprehension strategies to strengthen student learning.
  • Implement cross-curricular language use strategies to strengthen student learning.
  • Implement cross-curricular writing strategies to strengthen student learning.
Objectives
  • Use Safe and Civil practices to encourage respectful responsible and safe behavior.
  • Develop a positive school and classroom climate and culture that promotes learning.
Critical Initiative
  • Implement strategies and tools that focus on developing student skills in multi-step problem solving and interpreting data.
  • Implement strategies that increase student awareness in identifying the steps involved in the math planning process.
  • Implement additional online mathematics programs to provide additional learning opportunities for students.
  • Utilize students' knowledge of foundational mathematical skills in regular classroom practice.
  • Provide additional instructional support for mathematics skills through tutor classes.
Critical Initiative
  • Implement additional online language arts programs to provide additional learning opportunities for students.
  • Identify and familiarize students with academic expectations for specific content areas.
  • Train students in research strategies for investigating content information.
  • Provide additional instructional support for literacy skills through tutor classes.
  • Develop a cross-curricular literacy strategy collection for use by all teachers.
  • Identify and use vocabulary strategies for diverse content areas.
  • Provide professional development to staff in language strategies.
  • Identify and use reading comprehension strategies to support learning before during and after reading.
  • Provide professional development to staff in reading comprehension strategies.
  • Provide staff development in a common writing process suitable for diverse student writing abilities.
  • Identify and use writing strategies for diverse content areas and writing purposes.
Critical Initiative
  • Develop school climate that promotes a positive school culture among students and staff.
  • Develop a positive school and classroom culture that promotes learning.
  • Create and implement school-wide procedures for hallway and common area movement and safety.
  • Create and implement assembly procedures for safe student movement and conduct.
  • Create student focus group to strengthen student voice and feedback for improvement initiatives.
  • Provide staff development on improving classroom culture and procedures.
  • Continue regular Safe and Civil Team meetings and training for school staff.
Key Measures
  • Student performance in tutor classes.
  • Improved student grades in mathematics classes.
  • Increased student scores (NDSA)
  • Improved student grades in mathematics classes
  • Increased student mathematics scores (NDSA)
  • Increased student mathematics scores (NDSA)
  • Increased student mathematics scores (NDSA)
  • Improved student grades in mathematics classes
  • Improved student grades in mathematics classes
  • Improved student grades in mathematics classes
  • Student performance on online assessments
  • teacher formative/ summative assessments
  • teacher formative/ summative assessments
  • teacher formative/ summative assessments
  • Increased student scores (NDSA)
Key Measures
  • Increased student writing assessment scores (NDSA)
  • Student performance on online assessments.
  • Improved student grades in language arts classes.
  • Increased student scores (NDSA)
  • Increased student scores (NDSA)
  • teacher formative/ summative assessments
  • teacher formative/ summative assessments
  • teacher formative/ summative assessments
  • teacher formative/ summative assessments
  • teacher formative/ summative assessments
  • teacher formative/ summative assessments
  • Student performance in tutor classes.
  • Increased student scores on written assessments
  • Improved student grades in content classes
  • Writing assignments integrated into content areas
  • Increased student writing assessment scores (NDSA)
  • Research strategies
  • Improved student grades in content classes
  • Writing strategies implemented
  • Staff training for writing strategies
  • Writing strategies resources
  • Language strategies resources
  • Reading strategies resources
  • Writing strategies
  • Increased student reading assessment scores (NDSA)
  • Language strategies implemented
  • Staff training for language strategies
  • Observations and Instructional Rounds
  • Observations and Instructional Rounds
  • Improved student grades in content classes
  • Reading strategies implemented
  • Staff training for reading strategies
  • Classroom assessment scores
  • Vocabulary comprehension strategies
  • Increased student scores on content assessments
  • Improved student grades in content classes
  • Literacy Strategies Collection
  • Increase in student reading assessment scores
  • NDSA Scores
  • Reading comprehension strategies
  • Increased student reading assessment scores (NDSA)
  • Improved student grades in ELA classes.
Key Measures
  • WMS Hallway Policy (Safe and Civil Team)
  • Student Engagement Survey
  • WMS Assembly Procedure (Safe and Civil Team)
  • Safe and Civil Team Minutes
  • Reduced student behavior referrals
  • Safe and Civil Team discussions in WMS Team
  • Data collected from student focus meetings
  • Student Engagement Survey
  • Improved completion of school work
  • Increased student assessment scores
  • Resources from professional development training
  • Decrease in student behavior logs in classes
Technology Integration
Use varied technology resources as part to enhance instructional practice and student learning.
Objectives
  • Integrate technology research tools in classroom learning.
Critical Initiative
  • Train students to use technology to locate evaluate and collect information.
  • Train students to use technology tools to process data and report results.
  • Familiarize students with technology innovations to enhance student learning.
Key Measures
  • teacher formative/ summative assessments
  • teacher formative/ summative assessments
  • teacher formative/ summative assessments
  • Students using technology to collect information.
  • Student technology integrated projects
  • Student technology integrated projects
  • Student technology integrated projects
  • Students using technology to process data.
  • Students using technology in innovative projects
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