NM DASH 2024-25 Suite of Supplemental Professional Development Materials and Guidance

The New Mexico Public Education Department (NM PED) strives to ensure that every student is successful in their future college, career, or civic endeavors by building capacity for educators statewide to sustain improvement and close achievement gaps.

The department brings this vision to life through NM School DASH — a framework for evidence-based planning, implementation, and monitoring processes for schools. Informed by thorough research and statewide input from school and district leaders, NM School DASH model inspires change by facilitating a straightforward course of action for New Mexico educators.

The framework identifies key resources to support the change process; documents critical offline planning, implementation, and monitoring activities; and informs substantive collaborative data-based conversations. By supporting a common, consistent approach to improvement plans, NM School DASH allows for a scalable approach to improvement plans, encourages a laser-like focus on improving student outcomes, and cultivates a growth mindset amongst educators.

The NM School DASH Resource Library contains a compilation of materials available to support the planning, implementation, and monitoring activities of schools and districts working towards the New Mexico Ideal State.

The NM School DASH Process Guide sets a vision and defines a process to ensure a common approach, consistency of language, and a laser-like focus on improving student outcomes. It provides guidance to schools as they engage in the change process and identifies key resources to support change efforts. Finally, the guide helps document critical offline planning, implementation, and monitoring activities, and frames substantive collaborative conversations.

The guide outlines the six components necessary to complete rigorous planning, design monitoring activities, and inform implementation. It provides schools with a common language and common expectations to help build shared momentum for change (see Appendix A for a Glossary of Terms). The six components are:

• Component 1: Build School Core Team

• Component 2: Set Student Achievement Goals

• Component 3: Conduct Data Analysis and Identify THE Performance Challenge

• Component 4: Conduct Root Cause Analysis and Select Focus Areas

• Component 5: Create Desired Outcomes, Develop Progress Indicators, and Define Critical Actions

• Component 6: Implement Plan and Monitor Progress

 Please do not hesitate to reach out to the Priority Schools Bureau Team if you have questions, would like technical assistance, virtual support, E-Learning, or a conversation about your NM DASH and next steps.

In partnership on behalf of our children –

Elisabeth, Regina, Celeste, Bernadette, Heather, Connie, Sandy, and Robin – Team PSB