Oregon Administrative Rules
Chapter 581 - OREGON DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Division 17 - STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS
Section 581-017-0850 - Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Student Success Plan Grant Program: Definitions

(1) "Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Student Success Plan Grant" or "Grant" means a Grant established under ORS 329.849.

(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, including students, will be involved in co-constructing the project design, implementation, and/or providing strategic guidance in final decision-making.

(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) "Department" means the Oregon Department of Education.

(6) "Disproportionate Discipline" means disproportionate rates of suspensions and expulsions for Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander students compared to their white classmates who commit similar infractions and who have similar discipline histories.

(7) "Evidence-based" means practices with a proven record of success based on reliable, trustworthy, and valid evidence that when the practices are implemented with fidelity, students can be expected to make adequate gains in early literacy. Instructional practices, activities, strategies, or interventions that are "evidence-based" should not just privilege scientific evidence, but also be driven by evidence stemming from the perspectives of those affected by those practices, activities, strategies, or interventions such as:

(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 and a need to address and shift the system itself.

(9) "Partnership" means a group of organizations, Tribal governments, districts or individuals who agree to work together with a common interest and shared vision. In a partnership, there is a high level of trust and 2-way communication, and differences in power and privilege are addressed. Roles and responsibilities on all sides are well-defined and developed with shared authority in decision making. There might be shared space and staff, with expectations and agreements in writing.

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