BSD Continuous Improvement Plan

Enrollment Which Positively Impacts Student Learning

1. The Belgrade School District will maintain compliance with accreditation standards under Title 10, Chapter 55 of the Montana Administrative Rules and ensure compliance with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act by providing appropriate programming for eligible students in the Least Restrictive Environment. Accordingly, the trustees have determined that enrolling out-of-district students where there are no exceptional circumstances at the request of a parent or guardian that would result in exceeding accreditation limits for classrooms in grades Kindergarten-8 and exceeding 25 students per section in grades 9-12 negatively impacts the quality of education for all students within the district.
2. Additionally, the enrollment of out-of-district students where there are no exceptional circumstances at the request of a parent or guardian that would result in exceeding the following capacities for district maintained special education programs would negatively impact the district’s ability to serve students in those programs:
   1. Preschool (15)
   2. Transition (10)
   3. Behavior Classrooms (12)
   4. Deaf Education (0)
   5. Medically Fragile (3)
   6. Life Skills (10)
   7. Structured Classroom - Autistic (6)
   8. Resource Room (12)
   9. 18-21 Year Old Transitions Program (3)
3. To ensure that the district will be able to continue to positively impact student learning for enrolled students, the district will limit the approval of out-of-district student applications where there are no exceptional circumstances when there are less than four (4) available spaces within the grade-level or program to ensure sufficient capacity for additional new resident student or out-of-district student with exceptional circumstances who may seek to enroll.

Math Proficiency

1. Increase the percent of students scoring proficient or advanced on the annual state testing.
2. Increase the percent of Students with Disabilities scoring proficient or advanced on annual state testing.

Reading, Writing & Language Proficiency

1. Increase the percent of students scoring proficient or advanced on the annual state testing.
2. Increase the percent of Students with Disabilities scoring proficient or advanced on annual state testing.

Science Proficiency

1. Increase the percent of students scoring proficient or advanced on the annual state testing (5th & 8th Grades).
2. Increase the percent of Students with Disabilities scoring proficient or advanced on annual state testing (5th & 8th Grades).

Maximize Building Schedules and Personnel

1. Maximize student learning goals through purposeful course offerings and strategic scheduling of classes and staff.

K-12 Alignment

1. Develop and maintain consistent resources, procedures, and protocols for educational programming.
2. Improve effectiveness and organizational communication regarding District-wide educational programming.
3. Increase the usage of intra-departmental work groups, committees and discussion groups for District-wide educational programming.

Scheduling

1. Maximize budget resources through strategic scheduling of personnel (e.g. instructional staff, custodial maintenance, bus routing, food service, administrative support, etc.).

Instructional Materials

1. Update procedures for curriculum and assessment review.
2. Create comprehensive Professional Development offerings to ensure targeted job-embedded training to support instructional outcomes.

Fiscal Operations and Resource Allocations

1. Maximize budget resources through staff (FTE) allocations.
2. Maximize application of federal, state and local monies allocated to needs-based programming and operations.

Facilities & Maintenance

1. Assess the condition of facilities (Facility Condition Assessment) and use assessment to drive short and long range facility planning.
2. Develop a long-range plan for routine preventive maintenance and review of facilities.

District Information to Stakeholders

1. Communication messages will be short, concise, immediate, and provided through a variety of modes that are matched to the needs of the stakeholder.
2. Increase stakeholder understanding of school district funding and sources.

Training and Support for Administrators

1. Provide continuing professional development sessions as part of principal meetings on how to support teachers and staff to communicate positive messages about their school.
2. Provide building level leadership with public relations fact sheets and other user-friendly communication tools to use as needed when issues arise.

Stakeholder Information to District

1. Offer informal meeting opportunities to receive feedback.
2. Gather information from families regarding the best way to communicate with them and use that for communication planning.

Publication and Distribution of Information

1. Increase awareness of the District Strategic Plan.
2. Post information on the District and building websites and through social media.
3. Provide press releases, briefings, information sheets and photo opportunities produced and distributed by the Public Information Officer.

Facility and Procedural Enhancements

1. Improve safety and security measures through increased capital facility improvements, future facility design, usage of emerging technology and increased presence of School Resource Officers.
   1. Anonymous Reporting System
   2. Alertus

School Climate and Culture

1. Develop a consistent K-12 behavior intervention and reporting system.
2. Continue implementation of RULER.
3. Utilize climate and culture surveys.