Meeting 13 out of 14 (for K-12) or 6 out of 7 (for K-8) performance standards in your district will earn your school district this honor.
What is Distinction in Performance?
100
These are what Missouri students should know according to the Show Me Standards.
What are knowledge standards?
100
The assessment that provides the data that drives student services throughout the State of Missouri.
What is the Missouri Assessment Program (MAP)?
100
The Codes of State Regulations
What do the letters CSR stand for?
100
The program designed to ensure that all studens who graduate from Missouri high schools are well prepared to pursue advanced education and/or employment.
What is the A+ program?
200
By meeting 3 objectives, which include proficiency target, participation rate and additional indicators, a school district can earn this status.
What is Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)?
200
These are what Missouri students should be able to do with what they know.
What are performance standards?
200
The three different types of questions asked on the Missouri MAP test.
What are: 1) multiple choice 2) constructed response, and 3) performance events?
200
Robin Carnahan
What is the Secretary of State?
200
The mission of this program is student learning, not teaching.
What are Professional Learning Communities?
300
These additional factors may help a district to earn the status of AYP when not met on the first attempt.
What are confidence interval, growth, safe harbor and/or safe harbor confidence interval?
300
Written by curriculum consultants and educators from across the state, these represent the latest effort in helping educators articulate learning outcomes of their students.
What are grade level expectations?
300
In the video, "Not on the Test," these six things were listed as "NOT" on the test.
What are music, art, debate, rational discourse, the things you love best, and thinking?
300
An example of rules arranged by number
What is 5CSR30-4.030?
300
A+ program, International Baccalaurate, Gold Star and Blue Ribbon Schools programs are all of part of this
What are school improvement initiatives?
400
The district's level of achievement based on a 5 year average.
What is Annual Performance Report (APR)?
400
They provide services such as in-service training for curriculum development and consultative assistance in solving instructional problems.
What is curriculum services staff?
400
At least five examples of statistics from DESE's school statistics website.
What are APR, AYP, demographics, MSIP, accredition, high school graduation rates, and teacher characteristics? (There could be more.)
400
The national school recognition program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.
What is the Blue Ribbon Schools Program?
500
Two ways to measure progress for the district's APR.
What are annual and rolling average?
500
This encompasses information about the Grade Level Expectations, Show Me Standards, professional development, and subject matter.
What is the curriculum section of DESE?
500
Ten of the high-stakes tests given in Missouri.
What are the MAP, EOC, ACT, SAT, ELL/LAS, NAEP, Personal Finance, Advanced Placement, WorkKeys, and CTE third-party assessments?
500
Admin. Rules, Legislation, Public Laws of MO, Residency
What information is located in the School Laws Section of DESE?
500
The state school recognition program sponsored by the Missouri department of Elementary and Secondary Education.