5E Survey: Survey tool to guide school improvement
ACT: American College Test
AP: Advanced Placement
APP: Academy of Powerful Parents
AVID: Advancement Via Individual Determination
AVID Path: AVID training for teachers to deepen knowledge of strategies
Blooms’s Taxonomy: Thinking skills organized from basic to complex
CCR: College and Career Readiness
CFA: Assessments for learning
Cognitive Coaching: Research-based coaching model
Collaborative Inquiry: Bridge between data and results
District Literacy Plan: District’s guide to ensure all students are reading well by the end of third grade
EL: English Learner
ELA: English Language Arts
EMID: East Metro Integration District
ESL: English as a Second Language
IGDP: Individual Growth and Development Plan
iObservation: District teacher evaluation model
Learning Forward: Formerly the National Standard for Professional Development
Learning Targets: What will students know and be able to do?
LEP: Limited English Proficiency MTSS: Multi-Tiered Systems of Supports
Naviance: College and Career Readiness Platform
NUA: National Urban Alliance
PBIS: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
PEG: Pacific Educational Group
PLC: Professional Learning Community
PRESS: Path to Reading Excellence in School Sites
Ramp-Up to Readiness: Advisory program based on five pillars of college readiness
RC: Responsive Classroom
RtI: Response to Intervention
SIOP: Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol
SMART Goals: Specific, Measureable, Attainable, Realistic, Time-bound
Summative Assessments: Assessments of learning
TDE: Teacher Development and Evaluation Plan
TIES: Technology and Information Education Services
WBWF: Minnesota’s World’s Best Workforce Legislation
WICOR: AVID strategies in writing, inquiry, collaboration, organization, and reading