Map Name: 2025-2026 Williston High School Continuous Plan
Time Period: 7/1/2025 - 6/30/2026
Vision

Foster student growth and build trusting partnerships between students, staff, family and community.  Education will support our student's intellectual, social, and emotional growth.  We will provide students with an innovative curriculum supported by a variety of co-curricular activities.  The outc

Mission

Inspire and prepare students for the next level of education, work, and life.

Beliefs

We believe in providing a safe environment where healthy relationships and student growth are priorities.

Innovation
Williston High School will focus on innovative instructional practices to engage students in all areas of learning.
School Culture
Williston High School will focus on providing a safe, respecful, inclusive, and postive learning environment for all students, staff, and families.
Academic Achievement
Williston High School will focus on student academic progress and growth.
Objectives
  • WHS will increase the percentage of Choice Ready students so that graduation rates and student engagement will improve.
Objectives
  • WHS will promote a safe, positive, and collaborative environment where students will have the opportunity to have a voice in their education.
Objectives
  • WHS will improve PLC practices to drive instruction with formative assessments so that instruction, skills, and achievement will increase.
  • WHS will work with students during intervention time so that student achievement in core classes will improve
Critical Initiative
  • Educate and create opportunities for students to engage with and self-report on the Choice Ready Dashboard.
  • Provide teachers with opportunities to increase their understanding of the components of Choice Ready.
Critical Initiative
  • Create a student advisory committee made up of one representative from every club.
  • Provide resources and communication to students and families in a variety of ways, increasing knowledge of educational opportunities at WHS.
Critical Initiative
  • Align grade-level and 9-12 priority standards, assessments, and grading practices
  • Offer personalized professional development to improve PLC practices
  • Through the use of IXL and ND A+ data, student achievement will improve.
  • Use formative assessments to monitor student progress and drive interventions.
Key Measures
  • Graduation rate increases
  • Growth on Student Engagement Survey
  • Leaving school with certificates or college credit
  • Number of community partnerships
  • Reduction in student failure rates
  • Student feedback on implementation and improvement
Key Measures
  • Growth on Student Engagement Survey
  • Improved attendance, academic, and behavior data
  • ParentSquare analytics
  • Student feedback on implementation and improvement
Key Measures
  • ND A+ and IXL data
  • ND A+ Data
  • PLC data on implemented formative assessments
  • Reduction in student failure rates
  • Student feedback on implementation and improvement
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