New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 6 - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION › Chapter 30 - EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS - GENERAL REQUIREMENTS › Part 15 - COMMUNITY SCHOOLS › Section 6.30.15.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
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.