Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 581 - OREGON DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › Division 17 - STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS › Section 581-017-0675 - American Indian/Alaska Native Student Success Plan Grant Program: Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
The following definitions apply to OAR 581-017-0675 to
				581-017-0690:
(1) "American Indian/
			 Alaska Native Student Success Plan Grant" or "Grant" means a Grant established
			 under ORS 329.843.
(2) "Community-Based Organization" means a
			 nonprofit organization that is representative of a community or significant
			 segments of a community, and that is located within or in close proximity to
			 the community it serves.
(3)
			 "Community Voice" means that members representing the community served by the
			 project must be involved in the design, implementation, and/or provide
			 strategic guidance.
(4) "Culturally
			 Responsive" means the implicit recognition and incorporation of the cultural
			 knowledge and experience of students served by the plan in teaching, learning
			 and assessment. This includes identifying and valuing: students' cultural
			 assets in instruction and assessment; diverse frames of reference that
			 correspond to multifaceted cultural perspectives/experiences; and performance
			 styles in the classroom that do not reflect dominant values of achievement or
			 success.
(5) "Culturally Specific
			 Organization" means an organization that serves a particular cultural community
			 and is primarily staffed and led by members of that community; these
			 organizations demonstrate intimate knowledge of lived experience of the
			 community, including but not limited to the impact of structural and individual
			 racism or discrimination on the community; knowledge of specific disparities or
			 challenges documented in the community and how that influences the structure of
			 their program or service; ability to describe the community's cultural
			 practices, health and safety beliefs/practices, positive cultural
			 identity/pride/resilience, religious beliefs, etc. and how their services have
			 been adapted to those cultural norms.
(6) "Department" means the Oregon Department
			 of Education.
(7)
			 "Disproportionate Discipline" means disproportionate rates of suspensions and
			 expulsions for American Indian/ Alaska Native students compared to their white
			 classmates who commit similar infractions and who have similar discipline
			 histories.
(8) "Opportunity gap"
			 refers to the effects and disparities the dominant, White supremacist system
			 and culture has historically, currently, and intentionally created for groups
			 of students where factors such as race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status,
			 English proficiency, geography, financial wealth, gender, sexuality, familial
			 situations, and disabilities determine or constrain what opportunities the
			 system offers and how these affect their educational aspiration, achievement,
			 and attainment. These effects and disparities form an educational debt that the
			 dominant educational system owes to marginalized students as well as a need to
			 address and shift the system itself.
(9) "Student" means individuals who
			 self-identify as American Indian/ Alaska Native who are enrolled in early
			 childhood through post-secondary education.
(10) "Tribe" means a federally recognized
			 tribal government in Oregon: the Burns Paiute Tribe; the Confederated Tribes of
			 Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians; the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of
			 Indians; the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde; the Confederated Tribes of
			 Siletz Indians; the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation; the
			 Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs; the Coquille Indian Tribe, and the Klamath
			 Tribes.
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS
				  329.843
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS
				  329.843