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Kitchen Sink
100
A blueprint for creating instructional goals, methods, materials, and assessments that work for everyone--not a single, one-size-fits-all solution but rather flexible approaches that can be customized and adjusted for individual needs.
What is Differential Instruction or DI?
100
It is designed to serve students who are at risk of not reaching or maintaining academic grade level
What is Early Intervention Plan or EIP?
100
A standards-based curriculum emphasizing academic and social language development.
What is English for Speakers of Other Languages or ESOL?
100
The system used to measure student growth over time when compared to their similar peers.
What is Student Growth Measure/Student Growth Percentiles or SGM/SGP?
100
This is how a school is scored; each school earns points out of 100 for a variety of criteria.
What is College and Career Readiness Performance Index or CCRPI?
200
Students needing additional support to achieve academic potential.
What is Students with Disabilities or SWD?
200
The new Georgia state assessment. It is designed to measure how well students acquire the skills and knowledge described in the state content standards in reading, English/language arts, mathematics, science and social studies.
What is Georgia Milestones Assessment System or GMAS?
200
They are part of a problem-solving process in every Georgia school. The purpose is to find ways around roadblocks to success for any student referred.
What is Response to Intervention Student Support Team or Rtl or SST?
200
This type of plan falls under a section of a certain Act from 1973. This is the part of the federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against public school students with disabilities. That includes students with learning and attention issues who meet certain criteria.
What is a 504 plan?
300
District determined content-specific measure of teachers’ impact on student learning, which give educators and school systems an additional means by which to recognize success in the classroom.
What is Student Learning Objective or SLO?
300
Found in PowerSchool, this is a data warehouse of student test scores and information (Lexiles, attendance, transience, etc.)
What is State Longitudinal Data Service or SLDS?
300
Evaluation system to support and encourage continuous growth among teachers and leaders.
What is Teacher Keys Effectiveness System Leader Keys Effectiveness System or TKES/LKES?
300
This is a performance-based, subject-specific assessment and support system used by more than 600 teacher preparation programs in some 40 states to emphasize, measure and support the skills and knowledge that all teachers need from Day 1 in the classroom.
What is edTPA?
400
This includes formal and informal assessment processes that teachers and students use to gather evidence of student learning. A key expectation of this is that teachers develop the skills to guide students to take ownership for their own learning.
What is Formative Instructional Practices or FIP?
400
An evidence-based, data-driven framework proven to reduce disciplinary incidents, increase a school’s sense of safety and support academic outcomes.
What is Positive Behavior Interventions & Support or PBIS?
400
This is the system that replaces OAS; it will have assessment resources for teachers.
What is Georgia Online Formative Assessment Resources or GOFAR?
400
English/Language Arts and Mathematics Standards used in Georgia currently.
What is Common Core Georgia Performance Standards or CCGPS?
500
This acronym is used to identify areas where students have not met the standards
What is Did Not Meet or DNM?
500
Assessment that determines our National Report Card
What is National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP?
500
A site-based review process that provides a detailed analysis of a school’s progress.
What is Georgia Assessment of Performance on School Standards or GAPSS?
500
Students receiving assistance in mastering English for use in school and social settings.
What is English Learner/English Language Learner or EL/ELL?