A federally mandated way of reporting schools' success and student progress.
What is Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)?
100
The student information system that includes an online portal where parents and students can access grades and attendance.
What is PowerSchool?
100
A time for teachers to take advantage of focused and uninterrupted time to evaluate and to identify ways to enhance learning experiences for all students.
What is Teacher-Led Collaborative Planning?
100
An experienced certified teacher who takes a leadership role in identifying and implementing best practices related to infusion of technology into the curriculum to improve learning.
What is a Technology Integration Specialist (TIS)?
100
English for Speakers of Other Languages
What is ESOL?
200
A federal law that affords parents/guardians and students over 18 years of age certain rights with respect to the students' educational needs.
What is Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)?
200
The state exit examination in English language arts and mathematics that students are required to pass in order to receive a South Carolina high school diploma.
What is High School Assessment Program (HSAP)?
200
A way for Lexington One employees to make voluntary donations to help students and employees in need.
What is Lexington Employee Assistance Plan (LEAP)?
200
This initiative is part of the district's ongoing search for ways to provide students with the tools they need to support their learning and to prepare them for higher educational opportunites and careers. In November 2011, all of the district's high school students and teachers received iPads.
What is Personal Mobile Computing?
200
This is the commonly used reference for science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
What is STEM?
300
A district-wide, school-based leadership effort comprising administrators and teachers for all middle and high schools in the district.
What is Whatever It Takes?
300
These are the skills our district believes all students must have to be successfull in the 21st century. Hint: 4 C's.
What are creativity, collaboration, critical thinking and communication?
300
A inviting place where students can not only check out books, but they can also do research on the Internet, collaborate on projects and take part in demonstration lessons, just to name a few.
What is the Learning Commons?
300
A program that serves juniors and seniors from high schools in eight school districts in Fairfield, Lexington and Richland counties. This program has three goals:
1. complete course work needed to earn a high school diploma
2. cross enroll in courses at Midlands Tech
3. explore various career interests that are part of the High School Career Clusters
What is Midlands Middle College (MMC)?
300
The Center for Advanced Study that opened at Lexington High School at the beginning of the 2011-2012 school year. It is a part of the LexLearns component of Schools of the Future -- Now! initiative.
What is the Center for World Languages and International Business?
400
Assessment for learning used throughout a course of study to identify individual students who have mastered standards, students who need additional time and support for learning, and concerns.
What is formative assessment?
400
A method of tracking data over time.
What is trend analysis?
400
The cognitive load shifts slowly and purposely from the teacher to the student until the student becomes a competent, independent learner in this instructional model.
What is Gradual Release of Responsibility (GRR)?
400
A software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, and reporting of training programs, classroom and online events, e-learning programs and training content.
What is the Learning Management System (LMS)?
400
Thinking about one's thinking.
What is metacognition?
500
This method allows learners to make limited choices about their curriculum (what), schedule (when), methods and approaches (how) regarding their own learning.
What is personalized learning?
500
An assessment used to make final decisions about student performance.
What is summative assessment?
500
Student achievement data that have been subdivided in meaningful ways, typically by demographic characteristics.
What is disaggregated student data?
500
Groups of educators committed to working collaboratively in ongoing processes of collective inquiry and action research for the purpose of achieving better results for the students they serve.
What are Professional Learning Communities (PLC)?
500
A federal law that affords parents and students over 18 years of age certain rights regarding our conducting surveys, collecting and using information for marketing purposes, and certain physical exams?
What is the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA)?