What's in an acronym?
Student Services Best Practices
Happenings at IDEA Meetings
IDEA,
like a super Recent History
High School Content
(open notes, open phones)
100

ESY

Extended School Year, extra points (100) if you explain how a student qualifies for ESY.

100

This type of service is provided when a student's disability impacts their safety and/or accessibility to regular transportation to school.

Transportation, beep beep.

100

One of this person's role is to ensure grade level standards, aligned to goals, and accommodations are appropriate for the student. 

The gen-ed teacher

100

The number of disability categories.

13, 100 points for everyone you can name

100

Write one sentence using “diversity” correctly.

HS ELD

Our oceans are home to a rich diversity of species, which is essential for a healthy ecosystem.

200

FAPE

Free and Appropriate Public Education

est. 1975

200

This IDEA disability is characterized by repetitive activities and stereotyped movements, resistance to change environmentally and in routines, and differences with sensory stimulation?

Autism Spectrum Disorder

200

Active listening, concise language, empathy, checks for understanding, and guided notes are examples of THIS to ensure effective meetings. 

Communication skills and styles

200

This act established FAPE and is the foundation for IDEA, today. 

Education for All Handicapped Children Act, est. 11/29/2025.

200

Point P is not on line m.

How many distinct lines passing through point P are parallel to line m?

HS Geometry

1

300

LRE

Least Restrictive Environment, extra points (100) for explaining the purpose of LRE and why it's important.

300

This person may make a referral?

You, SSPs, Parents, or MTSS. 

NOT gen-ed teachers or not admin.

300

When describing services in the offer of FAPE, name 3 of the 6 things that must be included. 

What is the amount of time, frequency, service provider, type of service, beginning date and ending date.

300

This was the most recent year IDEA was reauthorized. 

2004, so long ago and super recent

300

Boarding schools and other federal policies of assimilation brought disruptions to the traditional transference of knowledge in tribal communities and have had wide-ranging and lasting impacts on American Indian individuals and communities. (EU 2)  

Much of America’s history has been told from the Euro-American perspective. Only recently have American Indians begun to write about and retell history from an indigenous perspective. 

To what extent does the boarding school experience directly impact tribes today?

HS History

Language Loss, Culturally disconnection.
400

ABA

Applied Behavior Analysis 

400

This is the difference between accommodations and modifications. 

Accommodations change the environment, Modifications change the content, extra points (100) if your provide an example. 

400

Write a SMART goal with this information: a math SLD student with no multiplication/division skills and processing challenges. The student can add, knows their shapes, current baseline is: 20% of the time correct. 

Standard/Skill: calculate area of regular shapes such as triangle

Be sure to include a condition (how), the skill, criterion, baseline, and time frame.

By December 2026, when provided with a multiplication chart and/or calculator, STUDENT will calculate the area of regular triangles with at least 100% accuracy on 4 out 5 trials, from a baseline of 2 out of 5 trials, using work samples as measured by a special education teacher. 

400

This was the first civil rights protection (with the Rehabilitation Act) for people with disabilities, 1973. 

Section 504, “no otherwise qualified handicapped individual in the United States shall solely on the basis of his handicap, be excluded from the participation, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."

400

Name one of the two protagonist in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye.

HS English II


Pecola Breedlove and/or Claudia MacTeer

500

AAC

Alternative Augmentative Communication

500

Miseal and his family have been homeless since July 2025. He often shows up late or misses a few days of the week due to transportation issues. You notice his hunger, lack of clean clothes, and tiredness when you check on him during class/instruction. You are worried about his inability maintain stamina throughout his classes, especially his English class.

Describe: does Miseal qualify for a Specific Learning Disability?

No, homelessness, nutrition are exclusionary factors that do not result in a learning disability/reading disability. 

500

This team member may stop stop the meeting at any time due to hostility, disrespect, or any other appropriate reason. 

ANYONE at the meeting.

500

The parent has up to 2 years to file this based on their disagreement to the evaluation, eligibly, or IEP

Due Process, in the hands of the family. 

500

Why do we have taxes? What is tax money used for at the federal level, your state level, and your local level?

Personal Finance, POST

Taxes fund public goods and services that individuals cannot easily provide on their own, such as national defense, schools, roads, and emergency services.

Without taxes, the government could not operate, and essential systems would collapse.