N.M. Code R. § 6.30.15.7 - DEFINITIONS
A.
"Active
family and community engagement" means encouraging partnerships with
families and community members from diverse backgrounds, including disability
experience, to develop and promote a vision for student success, and
establishing systems, structures, and supports to engage families and community
members from in the decision-making processes regarding students' education
through shared leadership.
B.
"Annual evaluation" means a written review conducted by the
community school coordinator and informed by the site-based leadership team to
evaluate the implementation of the community school strategy.
C.
"Asset mapping" or "needs and assets
assessment" means an assessment of the community's strengths and
resources, including organizations, people, partnerships, facilities, funding,
and policies.
D.
"Collaborative leadership and practices" means building trust with, and
leveraging the collective expertise of a community school's stakeholders,
including the site-based leadership team and community school coordinator, to
develop a shared vision and goals and create participatory practices for
distributing responsibilities.
E.
"Community-based organization" means a public or private nonprofit
organization that provides educational or related services to individuals in
the community.
F.
"Community
school director or manager" means a person who oversees more than three
community schools and coordinates implementation of the community school
framework across all school sites.
G.
"Community school plan" means
a written plan that describes how a school will implement a community schools
initiative.
H.
"Community-wide leadership team" means a formal group that is
inclusive and reflective of the community and has cross-sector representation
that may include individuals or organizations representing school staff,
students or youth, including students or youth with disabilities and their
family, family members, business leaders, community members, and
representatives from the local school board or governing council, the school
district or charter school, teacher unions, nonprofit organizations, special
education experts, and local and tribal governments. This group is not based on
an individual school and focuses on developing, building, and sustaining a
strategic direction for the system of community schools within a single county,
municipality, or Tribal jurisdiction.
I.
"Culturally and linguistically
responsive" means validating and affirming an individual's home culture
and language to create connections with other cultures and languages in various
social contexts.
J.
"Eligible applicant" means a single school, school district, or
consortium of schools that has formed a partnership with at least one
community-based organization with approval from the governing entity
responsible for the local education agency.
K.
"Eligible public school"
means a public elementary or secondary school that has a student body where at
least forty percent of students are eligible for free or reduced-fee lunch
pursuant to the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, or has been
identified as needing comprehensive or targeted support and improvement under
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, or otherwise identified by
the state as in need of additional support.
L.
"Evidence-based
interventions" means a strategy, practice, or program that has been
proved effective through formal studies and research in producing positive
results and improving outcomes for students.
M.
"Expanded and enriched learning time
and opportunities" means opportunities that include before-school,
after-school, weekend, summer and year-round programs that include and
accommodate students with disabilities, and that provide additional academic
support, enrichment activities and other programs that may be offered in
partnership with community-based organizations to enhance academic learning,
social skills, emotional skills, and life skills, and are aligned with the
school's curriculum.
N.
"Four pillars of community schools" means the four research- and
evidence-based strategies and best practices, as provided in Section
22-32-2 NMSA
1978, that support students, families, and communities in ensuring student
success, and are required to be part of each community school framework:
integrated student supports, expanded and enriched learning time and
opportunities, active family and community engagement, and collaborative
leadership and practices..
O.
"Integrated student supports" means actions or programs
implemented to address non-academic and out-of-school barriers to learning
through partnerships with social and health service agencies and providers,
which may include school-wide positive behavioral supports and interventions,
positive discipline practices, restorative practices, school-based or
school-linked health care, Medicaid waiver and other case management services,
and family stability supports.
P.
"Lead partner agency" means the agency that employs the community
school coordinator and works collaboratively with the community school
coordinator, the school principal, and the site-based leadership team to asses,
plan, and carry out the community school framework.
Q.
"Site-based leadership team"
means an interdisciplinary, school-based leadership team that includes the
school principal, the community school coordinator, teachers, other school
employees, families, community partners, tribal partners, nonprofit
organizations, unions and neighboring community residents that guides
collaborative planning, implementation, and oversight.
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