Collaborative Teams
AFT
Academic Function Team - building capacity to support IEP academic goals. Generally attended by special education consultants and other providers who support academic components in the IEP
RPC
Regional Planning Council - including your R8 representatives
DE
The abbreviation Iowans use for our main Educational Agency. Also the abbreviation for Delaware.
PD
Professional Development or Physical Disability
BIP
Behavior Intervention Plan
Also, used when IEDs are detonated where they are found. (blown in place.)
PL, PLC, and PLLC
Professional Learning, Professional Learning Community, and Professional Learning and Leadership Consultant - These are often confused and used interchangeably. One is a work group, one is a learning community structure, and one is a job title.
APC
Agency Planning Council - Includes agency chief administrators
TQ
Teacher Quality - state professional development funding
FIE
Full and Individual Evaluation
PLAAFP
Present Levels of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance
CIA
The R8 Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment consultant team.
LLPC
Leadership and Learning Planning Council - Includes all Regional Directors
DA
Differentiated accountability - Iowa’s model to provide support to districts and AEAs when and where it is most needed.
FAPE
Free Appropriate Public Education
4 G's
Agency Goals - Growth, Gaps, Graduation, Gateway
CBAT
Challenging Behavior and Autism Team - Region-wide team serving students with challenging behaviors; team members are assigned districts, but can flex as needed; sometimes assigned to cases as needed (Megan Schultz and Denise White-Staecker)
DBT
District-Based Team Meeting - consultants, psychologists, and special service providers who serve a specific district meet regularly to discuss relevant issues and needs
ESSA
Every Student Succeeds Act; replaces SINA/DINA (Schools In Need of Assistance/Districts In Need of Assistance)
OPL
other paid leave - snow days, personal days, sick time, old people land, etc.
FERPA
The educational law protecting privacy that is the equivalent of HIPPA in the medical world.
IBST
Intermediate Behavior Support Teams - Region-wide but assigned to specific schools and districts as well; support for primary contacts and provide more immediate supports than CBAT (can refer to CBAT as needed); Flex as needed throughout the region (Tim Hall, Emily Grantham, and April Wallace-Henning)
LEA
Districts - Local Education Agency
ELI, ELA, EL, ELL
Early Literacy Implementation, English Language Arts, English Learner, English Language Learner - these are often confused
NE, JO, SEP, BF, LS, NP, CM, PCM
Names of offices and districts for mileage - Newton, Johnston, Southeast Polk, Bondurant-Ferrar, Lynnville-Sully, North Polk, Colfax-Mingo, and Prairie City-Monroe
IELS, IQPPS
Iowa Early Learning Standards, Iowa Quality Preschool Program Standards