504 |
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 1973, protects children and adults against discrimination due to a disability. |
AASB |
Alaska Association of School Boards |
ACE |
Anchorage Council of Education |
ACE |
Alternative Career Education |
Achieve 3000 |
Online reading instruction program which provides students with current events articles that can be differentiated by student reading level to allow for both remediation and acceleration on a one-on-one basis. |
Achievement gap |
The difference in academic achievement among various subgroups of students |
ACT |
Adult Community Transition |
ADA |
American Disabilities Act |
AEA |
Anchorage Education Association |
AFACT |
Anchorage Faith in Action Congregation Together |
AGC |
American Guidance System |
AI |
American Indian |
AIR |
American Institutes for Research |
ALM |
Autonomous Learner Model |
AMO |
Annual Measurable Objectives |
AN |
Alaska Native |
AP |
Advanced Placement |
APEX |
Computer-based/online instruction, which targets AP students |
ARS |
Assessment Reporting System |
ASDTA |
Anchorage School District Teacher Academy |
ASSETS in Action |
Developmental Assets and the implementation of Social and Emotional Learning Standards |
Atomic Learning |
Subscription based online software training |
AVID |
Achievement Via Individual Determination |
AYP |
Average Yearly Progress |
Benchmark |
Reachable learning targets at various grade levels |
C & TE |
Career and Technology Education |
CALLA |
Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach |
CASEL |
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning |
CAT 6 |
California Achievement Test, sixth edition |
CD |
Compact disk |
Change of Heart |
A day-long program for students that takes kids from all different groups in a school and breaks down the barriers that might separate those groups. It is a community building day that supports kids' connectivity to school. |
Child Check |
The Child Check program offers free screening for disabilities for children ages 3 to 5 as mandated by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The screening process involves vision, hearing, speech, thinking and movement abilities. Children found to be at risk for disabilities are referred for further evaluation to establish eligibility for special education services in our district. |
Comprehensive Literacy |
A planned and purposeful approach for providing all students with reading/writing skills necessary for school-life literacy success. Components include shared, guided and independent reading with quality resources, reading aloud experiences and formative assessments. |
CREAC |
Culturally Responsive Education Action Committee |
Creative Curriculum |
National early childhood curriculum recognized for best practices and developmentally appropriate strategies. |
CRP |
Comprehensive Recruitment Plan |
CSHM |
Coordinated School Health Model |
Curriculum |
A specific blueprint for learning that is derived from content and performance standards and includes identified assessments, lessons, assignments and appropriate resources. |
Curriculum alignment |
The directness of the link among standards, local curriculum, instructional materials, instructional methods and assessments |
Curriculum articulation |
The extent to which curriculum builds and is vertically focused through the grades for complex learning to take place. |
Curriculum guide |
A document that provides clear learning goals and objectives; it identifies expected student learning achievements that are tied to state and local performance standards. Assessments, model lessons and a listing of approved instructional support materials are included to focus instruction. |
Curriculum renewal cycle |
A defined sequence of procedures and tasks related to the review of existing curriculum that may include data collection, materials review, adoption, implementation and training |
Curriculum review cycle |
A process that includes data analysis from state and local assessments, surveys, and committee recommendations to assess current curriculum, as it is relevant to student achievement |
DECA |
An association of marking students. Formerly referred to as “Distributive Education Clubs of America” |
DEED, EED |
Alaska Department of Education and Early Development |
DEEL |
Developing Exemplary Educational Leaders |
Developmental ASSETS |
Forty skills, relationships, values and self-perceptions that research has indicated student's need for success. |
EEO |
Equal Employment Opportunity |
ELD |
English Language Development |
ELLIS |
English Language Learning Instruction System |
Elluminate Live! |
A program that provides live online multimedia collaboration for conferencing, trainings, and classroom learning. |
ESL |
English as a Second Language |
Fast Forward |
Interactive, adaptive software to assist students rebuild basic skills in reading and language. |
FLES |
Foreign Language in the Elementary School |
FTL |
Follow The Leader |
GLEs |
State “Grade Level Expectations” |
GLOBE |
Originally an acronym for the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment |
HQP |
Highly qualified paraprofessional |
HQT |
Highly qualified teacher |
HSGQE |
High School Graduation Qualifying Examination |
IA |
Individualized Acceleration |
IB |
International Baccalaureate |
IEA |
Indian Education Act |
IEP |
Individual Education Plan |
IFAS |
Internal Financial Accounting System |
IGNITE |
Including Gifted Needs in Today's Education |
Immersion |
Learning through a second language with sheltered support; a monolingual delivery of instruction. |
Induction |
A global term covering all efforts associated with helping a new member become an effective member of an organization. |
Intel Teach to the Future |
a worldwide online professional development effort to help both experienced teachers and pre-service teachers integrate technology into instruction to develop students' higher-order thinking skills and enhance learning. |
ISTE |
International Society for Technology Education |
IT |
Instructional Technology |
JASON Project |
Online and real-time science program that connects students directly to scientists working and conducting research in the field, worldwide. |
LA |
Language Arts |
Larson's Math |
A supplemental, interactive computer-based mathematics program aligned with national and state standards |
LEP |
Limited English Proficiency |
LFA |
Learning First Alliance |
Liaison |
An agent who acts between internal and external individuals or organizations to promote communication. |
Literacy Boot Camp |
An ASD high school summer school session which targets those skills and strategies necessary for success on the reading section of the High School Graduation Qualifying Exam. |
LTPT |
Learning Through Performance Tasks |
MAT |
Master of Arts in Teaching |
Mentee |
A new employee who receives mentoring services |
Mentor |
One who focuses on creating a viable relationship to enhance individual, career, personal, and professional growth and development through the advising, coaching and nurturing of a new employee |
MLP.com |
MyLearningPlan.com |
MSI |
Multi-Sensory Instruction |
NAC |
Native Advisory Committee |
NAGC |
National Council for Gifted Children |
NCATE |
National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education |
NCLB |
No Child Left Behind |
NOVUS |
New online applicant data processing tracking system, currently used for certificated applicants. |
NSDC |
National Staff Development Council |
Open Directory/Active Directory |
Open Directory is Apple Computer's implementation of a network directory service. Active Directory is Microsoft's implementation of a network directory service, which is a network accessible database that stores user, computer, and group account information. |
Pacing guides |
A document that defines the rate at which content is addressed and instruction is delivered relative to the curriculum and the school year. |
Performance Standards |
What students are expected to be able to know and do and how well, to be deemed successful |
PLATO |
Web-based learning courseware available in math and reading that assigns custom curriculum to individuals or groups |
Project APPEAL |
Advanced Placement for Every Able Learner grant program |
Project Clio |
Teaching American History grant program |
PSAT |
Preliminary Scholastic Achievement Test |
RCCP |
Resolving Conflict Creatively Program |
REACH |
Respecting Ethnic and Cultural Heritage |
Read 180 |
Intensive reading intervention program designed to directly address individual needs through adaptive and instructional software, high-interest literature, and direct instruction in reading. |
RIF |
Reading is Fundamental |
Safe harbor |
When a subgroup shows a ten percent decrease in the percent of students not proficient on an academic area assessment, that subgroup makes safe harbor and can be said to have made AYP. |
SBA |
Standards Based Assessment |
SDFS |
Safe and Drug Free Schools |
SEL |
Social and Emotional Learning |
SELPAA Project |
Success in English Language Proficiency for Academic Achievement |
Service learning |
Educational experiences centered on community involvement. |
SIOP, Sheltered Instruction |
Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol |
Six Trait Writing |
Writing process terminology and rubrics, which focus on traits of effective writing. |
SLC |
Smaller Learning Community |
SRT |
State Release Time |
Subgroup |
A state or federally defined group of students that must be viewed both separately from, and included in, the group as a whole when reporting and analyzing data. |
TOTEM |
TOTEM Association of Educational Support Personnel |
TTL |
Technology Teacher Leader |
Underrepresented groups |
A group or subgroup whose enrollment in a specified program is not proportionate to its percentage of the general population |
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