Procedures & Compliance
Behavior
Components of an IEP
Curriculum
Awesome Acronyms
100

This is how long an IEP is current before it needs to be reviewed again.

What is 364 days?

100

This service in the IEP is provided to help students learn strategies to manage their behaviors.

What is behavior support?

100

This section of the IEP describes the current academic classroom functioning of the student.

What is the Present Level of Academic Performance?

100

This curriculum utilizes red, yellow, green, and blue categories to help students identify their emotions and work on emotional regulation strategies.

What is Zones of Regulation?

100

BIP

What is Behavior Intervention Plan?

200

The school evaluation team has this long after the parent signs the Permission To Evaluate to complete all testing and reconvene as a team to determine eligibility.

What is 60 calendar days?

200

This is the process of reducing the intensity of a conflict, often through communication and behavioral techniques, to helps individuals regulate.

What is de-escalation?

200

These are the specific objectives outlined in a student's IEP that state what the student will be learning throughout the duration of the IEP.

What is a goal?

200

This curriculum promotes cognitive flexibility and social problem-solving skills.

What is Social Thinking/Superflex?

200

ISP

What is Individualized Service Plan?

300

This process should be followed to gather data, implement interventions, and determine if a student requires a higher level of support.

What is the More Restrictive Process in CUSD?

300

This is a stimulus, event, or consequence that follows a particular behavior and increases the likelihood that the behavior will be repeated in the future.

What is a reinforcer?

300

This is a requirement under federal law and mandates that students be integrated to the maximum extent possible with non-disabled peers.

What is the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?

300

This curriculum associates tactile engagement with numbers to help students learn math calculation skills.

What is Touch Math?

300

AT

What is Assistive Technology?

400

This legal safeguard ensures parents have a voice in their child’s special education plan, including the right to due process.

What are Procedural Safeguards?

400

This process identifies the underlying causes of challenging behaviors and helps develop effective interventions.

What is a FBA?

400

These are supports that a student will receive in different content areas/environments of the school to ensure they can access the general education curriculum.

What are accommodations?

400

This curriculum is a phonics reading program and is based on Orton-Gillingham instructional principles

What is Sonday?

400

LEA

What is Local Education Agency?

500

CUSD best practice is that case managers complete the IEP draft in this amount of days before the IEP meeting.

What is 5 school days?

500

These skills are a set of cognitive abilities that help individuals plan, organize, and manage their thoughts, behaviors, and emotions 

What are executive functioning skills?

500

These are the specific instructional practices that a student will receive, related to their IEP goals, as outlined on the service page.

What is SDI (specially designed instruction)?

500

This supports various curriculum materials within our district by using 8 visual patterns that correlate to specific cognitive processes.

What is Thinking Maps?

500

CBI

What is Curriculum Based Instruction?

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