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It was the middle of January, and CIS Site Coordinator, Alex Mazares, was settling in to the new semester at Nina Otero Community School. She began to notice Sophia (not her real name), a sixth grade student that was frequently seen standing on her own in the hallway....

This week, approximately 13,000 Santa Fe public school students are logging into school from their homes and navigating classes, assignments and extracurricular programming. Read below to learn how things are going!

8th Grade
El Camino Real Academy

8th Grade

El Camino Rea...

Welcome back from our
CIS Site Coordinators!

Back to School! 

The beginning of a new school year is usually a special time of year. Freshly sharpened pencils and un-scarred notebooks accompany new school shoes and back-to-school clothes. With this new start there are often promises of more disciplined study habits...

The new school year is less than one week away. What is top of mind and top of heart as site coordinators get ready to welcome back students?

Katrina Ortiz, Nava Elementary School Site Coordinator

   The longer we have remote learning, the more pronounced the i...

Reflections from Jordan:

 "CIS has helped me a lot – there were a lot of people who didn’t believe in me – they didn’t think I would be able to graduate. One of them was my mom, but she didn’t mean it in that kind of way – she just thought school wasn’t for me."

"I am...

"There has never been a time when we need even more Communities In Schools (CIS) support than now. The equity gap has dramatically increased and CIS is the one thing that levels the playing field for students who are really struggling. We know that a lot of families ar...

Communities In Schools of New Mexico is thrilled to announce Capital High School seniors, Wendi Diaz and Jordan Pacheco have been inaugurated into the Carson Honor Society. This distinction celebrates high school seniors served by Communities In Schools that have overc...

CIS has been active and responsive to our students and families during the COVID crisis. Our COVID Food Delivery Project has provided 4,000 meals every week to families that are not able to attend community food distribution programs. The CIS Distance Learning Supersta...

Volunteer Edgar Talavera, left, and Adrian Sotelo, site coordinator at  Capital High School with Communities In Schools, load up a volunteer driver's car Wednesday.  Communities In Schools has been delivering about 5,000 meals per week to 300 families who are unable to...