Acronyms
The numbers/letters for District, Borough, and School
What is DBN?
The main portal for the DESSA data
What is the Aperture Portal?
An assessment carried out at the end of a unit/module/course/year
What is Summative Assessment?
A list of critical tasks, activities, and timelines for principals that is released twice-weekly (except during vacations)
What is Principals' Digest?
The number of Community School (K-8) districts in NYC
What is 32?
The new acronym for the division overseeing the DESSA work, and formerly known as DCSW
What is CCWB?
System housing biographical information and used to record student-specific data, such as exam scores, grade levels, attendance, and immunization records
What is ATS?
Exams for high school students (and sometimes 8th graders) take place 3 times a year and are required for graduation.
What are the Regents exams?
The document signed by parents and kept on file at the school if student images, quotes, names are used, or they participate in interviews
What is The Media Consent Form?
The person who oversees the District; including the administration of all instructional, business, and other supervisory aspects
What is the Superintendent?
My acronym is "NYSED"
What is the New York State Education Department?
The data system used to program students for subjects and mandated services, as well as grade entry and the generation of reports
What is STARS?
Assessment for lower-grade students, required under the federal ESSA law
What are the Grades 3-8 Math and ELA exams?
The primary online website containing links to updated guidance, applications and systems, information for field and central staff, teachers, and administrators
What is the InfoHub?
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What is the number of High School districts in NYC?
Downloadable spreadsheet containing school/district information
What is LCGMS?
The online system each school uses to write their CEP
What is iPlan?
Exams students take several times throughout the school year to give teachers more information about what has been learned.
What is Periodic Assessment? (will also accept "formative assessment")
An internal DOE office that vets and approves all communication with the media
What is the Press Office?
New York City's Alternative Schools District, inclusive of Transfer Schools, LYFE centers, YABC, and more
What is District 79?
A group of people who develop educational policies for their school and make sure resources support those policies.
What is an SLT? (or School Leadership Team)
An online portal integrating data from ATS and STARS, including demographics, attendance, and student performance. DESSA data was just added.
What is the New Visions Portal?
"504"
What is a testing accommodation?
The internal DOE office primarily responsible for developing, communicating with, and supporting parents in New York City schools
What is FACE (or Family and Community Empowerment)
The process of reviewing school practices against a research-based rubric
What is the Quality Review?
Federal education law requiring all schools to annually measure indicators of progress in math, ELA, science, and attendance
What is ESSA? (Every Student Succeeds Act)
The day when schools/districts must declare all information about their current status of enrollment, programs, devices, Title I information, etc
What is BEDS day?
My acronym is PBAT, and a small group of schools have a waiver from NYSED to use me instead of standardized tests
What are Performance-Based Assessment Tasks?
A comprehensive series of policies governing what school-based and non school-based staff must adhere to in support of students' rights
What are the Chancellor's Regulations?
The process of a district (Superintendent or Deputy) reviewing the work of school principals
What is PPR?