CIS Basics
The full name for the national organization that oversees 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 CIS model begins with this process to understand a school needs.
What is the school needs assessment?
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?
The number of tiers in the CIS integrated student supports model.
What is 3?
Site Coordinators must meet this at a minimum once a month for each case managed student.
What is a check-in?
CIS staff use this step to analyze student progress over time.
What is progress monitoring?
FERPA, COPPA and ECPA compliance are examples.
What are ways CISDM ensures the safety of student data?
Name another Tiered support system besides the CIS model
What is RTI, PBiS, and or MTSS?
The Most Intensive Tier in the CIS Model.
What is Tier 3? 1:1
These are school-level data points CIS uses to measure impact
What is attendance, behavior, course performance, SEL (ABCs)?
The schoolwide goal area for all Newark BOE.
What is chronic absenteeism?
How users access CISDM
What is through a URL (web address)?
Bill Milliken
The mission of Community in Schools.
What is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life?
The process for assessing student needs, setting goals, and planning and coordinating/brokering supports.
What is case management?
A community partner providing mentoring services in a group setting would most likely support this tier.
What is Tier 2?
Outputs, progress and outcome data are examples of this.
What are types of data that can be analyzed through CISDM reports and summaries?
The EOY process that a site coordinator does to determine if a student/school met their goal
What is goal achievement?
According to the Theory of Change, what is needed (foundation) before anything can happen with students, 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?
The acronym CISDM stands for what
What is the Communities In Schools Data Management system?
Academic Assistance, Basic Needs, and Behavioral Interventions are all examples.
What are support categories?
The age CIS will be in 2027.
What is 50 years old