Sixty-two Days and Eduspeak

Hello MISD community. We know it has been a very long time (62 days to be exact) since our last post. There really is no good reason for the lag in writing other than the days just kept getting away from us and we look up and realize a significant amount of time has passed.

For our first post back in this space, we want to provide you with a useful resource.

Eduspeak
Have you ever thought people in education speak in a different language? We know we participate in some so-called "eduspeak."

So here is a resource of public education-related acronyms and what they mean:

1. ACCEL - Advanced Courses and Curriculum for Exceptional Learners
   
2. ACT - American College Test
3. AEIS - Academic Excellence Indicator System
4. AEP - Alternative Education Program
5. AP - Advanced Placement
6. ARD - Admission, Review and Dismissal Committee
7. AVID - Advancement Via Individual Determination
8. BE - Bilingual Education
9. BIP - Behavior Intervention Plan
10. CBA - Curriculum Based Assessments
11. CEHI - Compensatory Education Home Instruction
12. CTE - Career & Technology Education
13. DAEP - Disciplinary Alternative Education Program
14. DAP - Distinguished Achievement Program
15. DEIC - District-wide Educational Improvement Program
    
16. DRA - Developmental Reading Assessment
17. ELA - English Language Arts
18. ESC - Education Service Center
19. ESL - English as a Second Language
20. ESY - Extended School Year
21. ExCET - Examination for Certification of Educators in Texas
22. FAFSA - Free Application for Federal Student Aid
23. FAPE - Free and Appropriate Public Education
24. FERPA - Family Education Rights & Privacy Act
25. FIRST - Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas
26. FTE - Full Time Equivalent
27. GED - Graduation Equivalency Degree
28. GPA - Gold Performance Acknowledgement
29. GT - Gifted and Talented
30. IDEA - Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
31. IEP - Individual Education Plan
32. ITP - Individual Transition Plan
33. JFK - Just for Kids website
34. LDAA - Locally Developed Alternative Assessment
35. LEA - Local Education Agency
36. LEP - Limited English Proficiency
37. LPAC - Language Proficiency Academic Committee
38. NCLB - No Child Left Behind Act - 2001
39. OEYP - Optional Extended Year Program
40. PDAS - Professional Development Assessment System
41. PEIMS - Public Education Information Management System
42. PEP - Pregnancy Education & Parenting
43. PGP - Personal Graduation Plan
44. PSAT - Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test
45. PTA - Parent Teacher Association
46. PTO - Parent Teacher Organization
47. RPTE - Reading Proficiency Test in English
48. RTI - Response to Intervention
49. SACS-CASI - Southern Association of Colleges & Schools - Council on Accreditation & School Improvement
50. SAT - Scholastic Aptitude Test
51. SBDM - Site-Based Decision Making
52. SBOE - State Board of Education
53. SCE - State Compensatory Education
54. SDAA - State Developed Alternative Assessment
55. SEM - Standard Error of Measurement
56. SE's - Student Expectations
57. SIOP - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol
58. SSI - Student Success Initiative
59. TAKS - Texas Assessment of Knowledge & Skills
60. - TAKS Acc. - Accommodated
61. - TAKS Alt - Alternative
62. - TAKS M - Modified
63. TBA - TAKS Based Assessments
64. TBSI - Texas Behavior Support Initiative
65. TEA - Texas Education Agency
66. TEKS - Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills
67. TELPAS - Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System
68. TExES - Texas Examinations of Educator Standards
69. THEA - Texas Higher Education Assessment
70. TOPT - Texas Oral Proficiency Test
71. TPRI - Texas Primary Reading Inventory
72. TRS - Teacher Retirement System of Texas
    

We'll start with 72 (62 for every day since our last post and an extra 10 as a bonus.)

Periodically check back to this list since it may grow as needed to accommodate new acronyms. If you come across an acronym and want to know what it means, please leave a comment and we'll see about tracking it down for you.

(Note: Most of these eduspeak acronyms and their meanings were compiled by our good friends in the Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD.)