· Support Opportunities: The SWREC offers professional development and technical assistance to large groups, small groups, and individuals. The SWREC will be happy to enter classrooms and work directly with teachers in addition to working with directors and principals.
· Meeting Facilitation: Utilizing a variety of strategic planning tools, the SWREC can facilitate meetings of your administrators, school board, and/or school staff in evaluating their progress and planning for the future.
· Teacher Mentoring: The SWREC provides teacher mentoring activities, including training in 3-tier licensure and dossier preparation, beginning teacher training seminars, classroom observations, one on one assistance, and other activities at district request.
· Fiscal Management: The SWREC recognizes that its primary purpose is to assist member districts in providing the best education possible within the limits of the established programs and the financial ability of the school districts and the SWREC. The SWREC also recognizes its deep responsibility for the efficient use of public funds.
· Purchasing: The SWREC adheres to the New Mexico State Procurement Code as it applies to RECs and school districts.
· Medicaid Billing: The SWREC provides data entry and processing of Medicaid billing for District 10. Medicaid billing is comprised of two units consisting of Direct Service Logs and Administrative Time Studies. District 10 includes Animas, Hatch, Lordsburg, Reserve and T or C for recipients under 21 years of age.
· Grant Writing: New Mexico's schools need additional funding in the form of state, federal, and private grants to achieve an exemplary education for its students. The SWREC will pursue these grants at the direction of its member districts.
· Grants Management: The SWREC manages a number of grants and funds for its consortium districts. These grants range from smaller private grants such as Wolslager to larger government funded opportunities such as Twenty-first Century.
