CIS Basics
The full name for CIS
What is Communities In Schools?
Whole-school or widely available supports that align with the CIS School Goal.
What are Tier I supports?
The name of the role you hold in implementing the CIS Model.
What is the role of the site coordinator?
The full name of the database used to track all CIS data
What is the CIS Data Management System?
When a site coordinator coordinates a community partner to provide a support to students/families.
What is brokering?
What CIS calls the role that is responsible for enacting all components of the CIS Model
What is the Site Coordinator?
Individualized supports provided primarily to case managed students.
What are Tier III supports?
One activity site coordinators should NEVER be responsible for.
What is student discipline?
FERPA, COPPA and ECPA compliance are examples.
What are ways CISDM ensures the safety of student data?
The process of analyzing school demographics, existing supports and providers, and school and community characteristics.
The Theory of [Blank] helps explain how the CIS Model works
What is the Theory of Change?
Supports provided in a group setting to primarily case managed students.
What are Tier II supports?
The schoolwide goal area for all Newark Public Schools.
What is Attendance?
Who is your CISDM support and data person?
De'je Bragg
When a site coordinator has the resources and capacity to personally deliver a support to students/families.
What is directly provide a support?
The number of schools/community sites served by Communities In Schools in 2021-22.
What is 3,270?
The process for assessing individual student needs, setting goals, and planning and coordinating/brokering supports.
What is case management?
The attitudes and beliefs of people, relationships among people, and cultural norms of the school combine to create this.
What is school culture?
Outputs, progress and outcome data are examples of this.
What are types of data that can be analyzed through CISDM reports and summaries?
What changes people according to our CIS founder?
Relationships
According to the Theory of Change, this is at the core of the work of CIS.
What are relationships?
The work that is done 'behind the scenes' such as planning events, managing volunteers and coordinating partners.
What is site coordination?
Existing supports delivered by site coordinators primarily fall within this Tier.
What is Tier I?
Academic Assistance, Basic Needs, and Behavioral Interventions are all examples.
What are support categories?
The process of assessing the needs of an individual student for case management.
What is the student needs assessment?