New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 6 - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
Chapter 30 - EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS - GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
Part 17 - STRUCTURED LITERACY INSTRUCTION, INTERVENTIONS, AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Section 6.30.17.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. "Department-approved screener" means a tool, approved by the department, used to identify characteristics of dyslexia.

B. "First standardized reporting date" means the 40th day count, or the second Wednesday of October.

C. "Licensed and accredited or credentialed teacher preparation provider" means a licensed and accredited professional development provider who specializes in providing evidence-based training in structured literacy.

D. "Multi-layered system of supports" means a coordinated and comprehensive framework that uses increasingly intensive evidence-based academic and behavioral supports that address student needs as evidenced by student data.

E. "Student assistance team" or "SAT" means the student assistance team, which is a school-based group of people whose purpose is to provide additional educational support to students who are experiencing difficulties that are preventing them from benefiting from general education.

F. "Structured literacy" means systematic, cumulative, explicit, diagnostic, and multisensory instruction that includes deep content knowledge and specific teaching expertise that focuses on the elements of phonological awareness, word recognition, phonics and decoding, spelling, and syntax at the sentence and paragraph levels for the prevention of reading deficits.