Map Name: 2024-2025 Williston High School Continuous Plan
Time Period: 6/1/2024 - 5/31/2025
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
  • If we focus on increasing the percentage of Choice Ready students, graduation rates and student engagement will improve.
Objectives
  • If we focus on promoting a safe, positive, and inclusive environment, students will feel more welcomed and become more academically engaged.
Objectives
  • If we continually improve PLC, GVC, and MTSS practices in the classroom and school environment, instruction, skills, and achievement will improve.
  • If WHS focuses on gaps during intervention time, student achievement in core classes will improve.
Critical Initiative
  • Focusing on choice ready essential skills; post-secondary, workforce, and military readiness will prepare students for post-graduation next steps.
  • Provide educators with PD on innovative practicies such as differentiation, student choice, and real world skills.
Critical Initiative
  • "Provide resources and communication to families in a variety of ways to increase relationships and ultimately student achievement. "
  • School wide policies will be implemented to provide a consistent and safe learning environment .
  • Utilizing the SEL strategies in the school to increase schoolwide positive social emotional skills
Critical Initiative
  • Align grade-level and 9-12 priority standards, assessments, and grading practices.
  • Create formative common assessments on priority standards to drive our Tier 1 & 2 instructional strategies based on new ND standards.
  • Provide PD and resources on a variety of topics which support implementation of PLC, GVC, MTSS, EL and IEP/504
  • Through the use of IXL and ND A+ data, student achievement will improve from the 2023-2024 school year data in comparison to 2024-2025.
Key Measures
  • Common priority standards per semester through GVC
  • Failure rates / grades
  • Graduation rate
  • Growth on Student Engagement Survey
  • Leaving school with certificates or college credit
  • Number of community partnerships
  • Reduction in student failure rates
  • Surveys for impact / improvement
Key Measures
  • % of kids in Coyote Day Program/ OSS
  • Growth on Student Engagement Survey
  • Improved attendance, academic, and behavior data
  • Measure behavior citations.
  • Number of parents who attended supports
  • Parent survey
  • Surveys for impact / improvement
Key Measures
  • Common priority standards per semester through GVC
  • PLC Cycle: Meeting notes showing growth
  • Proficiency growth post intervention
  • Reduction in student failure rates
  • State Assessment Data
  • State assessment scores
  • Teacher evaluation of PD and resources.
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