General Education
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What is PD? Professional Development
This individualized document identifies the special education services, supports, goals, and accommodations for an eligible student with a disability.
What is an IEP? An Individualized Education Program?
Before you share a student's grades or education records with someone, you should probably remember this federal student-privacy law.
What is FERPA? Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act?
Schoology is an example of this type of system, used to deliver and manage courses, assignments, and learning materials.
What is an LMS? A Learning Management System.
Unlike an IEP, this plan comes from a federal civil-rights law and provides accommodations to ensure a qualified student with a disability has equal access.
What is a Section 504 Plan?
A student’s name combined with other identifying information could fall under this category of information that must be handled carefully.
What is PII? Personally Identifiable Information?
Grades, enrollment, schedules, and official student information are commonly housed in this type of system.
What is an SIS? A Student Information System?
This broad federal civil-rights law prohibits disability discrimination in areas including employment, government services, and public accommodations.
What is the ADA? The Americans with Disabilities Act?
In Oklahoma education, these three letters refer to the state's framework for evaluating teachers and leaders.
What is TLE? The Teacher and Leader Effectiveness system?
These terms relate to students learning English and the programs or instruction designed to support English-language development.
What are ELL/ESL? English Language Learner and English as a Second Language?
IEPs exist under this federal special-education law.
What is IDEA? The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
This state agency oversees Oklahoma's public education system and implements state and federal education requirements.
What is the OSDE? The Oklahoma State Department of Education?
In this instructional approach, students learn by actively exploring a real-world question, challenge, or task and creating something to demonstrate their learning.
What is PBL? Problem-Based Learning?
Both IDEA and Section 504 include requirements connected to students with disabilities receiving an appropriate public education without charge. What is the acronym for this?
What is FAPE? Free Appropriate Public Education?
Teachers are allowed to choose this as part of their evaluation: a targeted area for professional growth.
What is PLF? Professional Learning Focus?