Liberty Acronyms and Other Terms: So What Do They Mean?
These are some terms you may hear in relation to your child's education.
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Immediate Intensive Intervention
Accommodation
Modifications or adjustments made by classroom teachers to enable students to benefit from their educational program.
ADA
Americans with Disabilities Act
ADD
Attention Deficit Disorder
ADHD
Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder
AIP
Now PMP
AR
Accelerated Reader – Commercial program that combines books with computer tests for measuring and improving reading comprehension.
ASD
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Assessment
A way of collecting information about a student’s special learning needs, strengths, and interests.
AYP
Adequate Yearly Progress – No Child Left Behind legislation requires each school to show improvement each year in various subgroups based on FCAT.
BIP
Behavioral Intervention Plan
CARD
Center for Autism and Related Disabilities
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Compass Learning
A commercial computer program that assesses a student’s level and then provides instruction at that level.
CRISS
Creating Independence through Student-owned Strategies - a teaching approach whereby students use metacognitive and organizing strategies to learn how to learn.
D/HOH
Deaf / Hard of Hearing
DAR
Diagnostic Assessment of Reading - reading assessment used at the intermediate level of elementary schools to determine a child's reading strengths and weaknesses.
DD
Developmentally Delayed
DIBELS
Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills - reading assessment used at the primary level in elementary schools to determine a child's reading strengths and weaknesses.
DOE
Department of Education
DRA
Developmental Reading Assessment - a kindergarten through 3rd grade reading assessment used to determine a child's reading strengths and weaknesses.
EBD
Emotional Behavioral Disorder
ELL
English Language Learners
EMH
Educable Mentally Handicapped
ESE
Exceptional Student Education- Students with physical or mental disabilities, and gifted students.
ESL
English as a Second Language
ELL
English Language Learners
ESY
Extended School Year
FBA
Functional Behavioral Assessment. This is done when a student is not responding to teacher interventions in the classroom to help remediate behavioral problems. It is data gathered by trained personnel to determine environmental factors that are triggering and maintaining problem behaviors. This data is used when developing a Behavior Intervention Plan.
FDLRS
Florida Diagnostic Learning Resources System
FDOE or FLDOE
Florida Department of Education
FRL
Free, Reduced Lunch
FTE
Full-Time Equivalent- student count, used by state officials to determine how much money is allocated to school districts from the legislature.
GLE
Grade Level Expectations – expectations that are expected in the Sunshine State Standards.
IDEA
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (formerly Education of Handicapped Act (EHA) 94-142.
IEP
Individual Education Plan- a required school plan for all children receiving special education or ESE services.
IEP Meeting
A meeting held at least once each school year to make decisions about changes in the IEP and review the student’s placement.
Inclusion
Program where children with special needs are placed in regular classroom and receive assistance from a regular ed. and ESE teacher.
LEAP
Liberty Elementary Afterschool Program
LES
Liberty Elementary School
LI
Language Impaired
LRE
Least Restrictive Environment – part of the federal law and the state law that deals with determining the placement of children with disabilities.
NBCT
National Board Certified Teachers- Liberty has 6 board certified teachers.
NCLB
No Child Let Behind – designed to improve student achievement and close the gap between majority and minority students.
OHI
Other Health Impaired
OT
Occupational Therapy
PBS
Positive Behavior Support
PMP
Progress Monitoring Plan (formerly AIP- Academic Improvement Plan) – students working below grade level are given interventions.
PT
Physical Therapy – geared towards gross motor skills that impact a student's academic success and / or daily living skills.
PTO
Parent-Teacher Organization
RFB&D
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
RtI
Response to Intervention or way(s) in which classroom strategies either help or do not help a child with an academic skill deficiency. Progress monitoring by teacher-chosen classroom assessments determine the effectiveness of an intervention.
SAC
School Advisory Council
Section 504
A civil rights law ensuring equal access to educational services.
SI
Speech Impaired
SSP
Student Success Plan- a plan that includes strategies for improving student performance, how and when improvements will be implemented, etc.
SLD
Specific Learning Disabilities
SRO
School Resource Officer
SSS
Sunshine State Standards – standards set by state that are the criteria for FCAT.
Title I
A federally-funded program designed to improve achievement at schools with a high percentage of students eligible for free and reduced priced lunches.
TST
Teacher Support Team- helps the teacher look at a student's assessment data to see if interventions have been effective.
VE
Varying Exceptionalities
VI
Vision Impaired