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Common Acronyms
School Improvement
Special Education Law
Diverse Learning Community
100
A group of specialists who work collaboratively with classroom teachers and parents to address academic, behavioral, social/emotional and/or executive function concerns which may interfere with a student’s ability to learn or demonstrate growth over time.
What is the DLC Team - Diverse Learning Community Team?
100
Melissa, Pete, Kyle, Jessy, Catherine, Kathleen and Rachael make up this team.
What is the Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) team?
100
A child must meet criteria for an educational _________________ under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) AND require _______________ to be eligible for special education services.
What is a disability, specially designed instruction
100
Planning time that is scheduled two times per month with DLC specialists and a teaching team to problem solve student needs, develop interventions, and monitor the effectiveness of interventions over time. Parents are often invited to participate if initial strategies implemented are not effective.
What is a DLC meeting?
200
A plan or program developed to ensure that a child who has a disability identified under the law and is attending an elementary or secondary educational institution receives specialized instruction and related services.
What is an IEP - Individualized Education Program?
200
is a set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn. 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 Universal Design for Learning?
200
The age when a student is required to be invited to attend an IEP meeting.
What is age 14?
200
Legislation implemented in NC that states third-grade students who are not reading at grade level by the end of third grade will receive special help, including summer reading camp and other interventions to make sure that they can read well enough to be able to do fourth-grade work.
What is Read to Achieve?
300
A framework which promotes school improvement through engaging, research-based academic and behavioral practices.
What is MTSS - a Multi-Tiered System of Support?
300
A tool used to assess students' academic performance, to quantify a student rate of improvement or responsiveness to instruction, and to evaluate the effectiveness of instruction. It can be used for individual students or with whole groups of students.
What is progress monitoring?
300
A term that is commonly used to refer to the amount of time an IEP team has to collect assessment data, determine eligibility for special education, and develop and individualized education program.
What is the 90 day timeline?
300
Can help a student learn the same material and meet the same expectations as their classmates. For example, if a student has reading issue, the student might listen to an audio recording of a text.
What are accommodation?
400
A federal law that protects the privacy of student education records. The law applies to all schools that receive funds under an applicable program of the U.S. Department of Education.
What is FERPA - Family Education Rights and Privacy Act?
400
Administered twice a year for all students at Willow Oak to measure individual growth over time and achievement in reading and math.
What is Measures of Academic Progress or MAP?
400
Contains the following two principles: To the maximum extent appropriate children with disabilities are to be educated with children who are not disabled AND removal may only occur when education in regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services cannot be achieved satisfactorily.
What is the Least Restrictive Environment?
400
The time of year first year students are typically considered for supplemental support in reading and math.
What is Middle of Year (MOY) for reading and BOY in 2nd grade for math?
500
All children with disabilities, regardless of type or severity, shall receive this at public expense.
What is FAPE - a Free Appropriate Public Education?
500
A law that requires children between seven and sixteen to attend school, unless they are deemed mentally or physically unable to attend or have immediate needs at home. Parents who fail to comply may be charged with a Class 3 misdemeanor.
What is the Compulsory Attendance law?
500
The process that requires all schools to locate, identify, & provide services to all eligible students with disabilities aged 3 – 21.
What is Child Find?
500
A civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities and ensures a child with a disability has equal access to an education.
What is Section 504 of the Americans with Disabilities Act?