UCSD ACRONYM & ABBREVIATION DIRECTORY

AE - Age Equivalent

AED - Automatic External Defibrillator (Required Medical Equipment for Schools)

AFT - American Federation of Teachers

AIMS - Academic Information Management System (Title I and Elementary AIS services database)

AIS - Academic Intervention Services

AMAO - Annual Measurable Achievement Outcomes (Used in NYSESLAT results)

AOC - Audit of the Curriculum (NYS Sanction for Districts In Need of Improvement)

APE - Adaptive Physical Education

APPR - Annual Professional Performance Review

ATAS - Assessment of Teaching Assistant Skills

AYP - Adequate Yearly Progress

BEDS - Basic Educational Data Systems

BIP - Behavioral Intervention Plan

BMI - Body Mass Index

BOCES - The Board of Cooperative Educational Services system was created to encourage school districts to pool resources to provide programs and services that they could not provide individually.

BOE - Board of Education

CDEP - Comprehensive District Education Planning

CHBS - (pronounced “chubbs) Community Health & Behavioral Services (a community program for both physical and mental health services, many Utica children receive services through CHBS)

COBRA - Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (allows “carry over” of health insurance for a designated time period)

COGNOS - not an acronym (computer data collection vehicle used by the RIC)

CSE - Committee on Special Education

DI - Differentiated Instruction

DINI - District In Need of Improvement

ELA - English Language Arts

ELA - English language arts. The state tests all students in grades 3-8 in this and math.

ELL - English Language Learner

EPE - Employment Preparation Education (funds for adult (21+) education)

EPIC - Every Person Influences Children (a parenting education program)

ELP - Early Learning Profile

ERF - Early Reading First

ERS - Employees' Retirement System

ESEA - Elementary & Secondary Education Act

ESL - English as a Second Language

FAC - Faculty Affairs Committee

FAPE - Free and Appropriate Public Education

FERPA - Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

FMLA - Family Medical Leave Act

FOIL - Freedom of Information Law (allows the public to see documents)

FTE - Full-Time Equivalent (used to designate full time staff positions)

H&S - Health and Safety (each building has a health and safety committee)

HR - Human Resources (also called Personnel Department)

IQ - Intelligence Quotient

IST - Instructional Support Team (formerly called Child Study Team -CST)

ITI - Integrated Thematic Instruction

LEA - Local Educational Agency

LEP - Limited English Proficient

MOA - Memorandum of Agreement

MOU - Memorandum of Understanding

MSDS - Material Safety Data Sheet

NCLB - The No Child Left Behind Act sets federal standards of accountability at public schools.

NEA - National Education Association

NEA/NY - This is the New York affiliate of the National Education Association. NYSUT is in the process of unifying with NEA/NY.

NYSESLAT - New York State English as a Second Language Achievement Test

NYSTART - New York State Testing and Accountability Reporting Tool (NYS reporting system for student, school, and district data)

NYSUT - New York State United Teachers is your statewide union. NYSUT is the largest education union in New York with more than 525,000 members.

OSHA - Occupational Safety and Health Administration

PAC - Political Action Committee

PARP - Parents As Reading Partners

PBIS - Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports

PCEP - The Partnerships in Character Education Program

PDP - Professional Development Program

PERB - The Public Employment Relations Board is a state agency that resolves disputes involving public employee unions, such as teacher unions.

PINS - Person In Need of Supervision (a court procedure for severely troubled youth)

PLC - Professional Learning Community

RIC - Regional Information Center (BOCES department that processes test data and other information and issues reports to the District)

RTI – Response to Interventions services

SDM - Shared Decision Making (Parent/Staff Committee --Buildings have them and the District has a district wide one)

SED - The State Education Department oversees policy, funding and standards for public schools.

SES - Supplemental Educational Services (some at risk students receive services from commercial education resources, such as Sylvan, through Title I)

SINI – School In Need of Improvement

SIOP – Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol

SPFY - (pronounced “spiffy”) School Partnership For Youth

SURR - School Under Registration Review

SWDs - Students With Disabilities

SWP - School-Wide Program

TAS - Targeted Assistance School

TIP - A TIP plan is a written Teacher Improvement Plan

TOAD - Totally Outrageous Activity Day

TRS - Teachers' Retirement System--The New York State Teachers' Retirement System covers most K-12 public school teachers.

UFT - United Federation of Teachers

USDOE - United States Department of Education

VI - Visually Impaired

VOTE-COPE - Voice Of Teachers in Education — Committee On Political Education is NYSUT's voluntary political action fund, which supports NYSUT in its legislative initiatives.

Special Education

ADA - Americans with Disabilities Act

ADD - Attention Deficit Disorder

ADHD - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

ADL - Activities of Daily Living

ARRA - American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (federal monies to help education)

AT - Assistive Technology

BIPs - Behavior Improvement Plans

C4E - Contract For Excellence (additional NYS money for districts, must be spent on certain priorities)

COPS - Community Occupational Program Services aka Career Opportunity Program (provides opportunities for career exploration in a community setting)

CPSE - Committee on Preschool Special Education

DD - Developmental Disability

ED - Emotionally Disabled

FBAs - Functional Behavior Assessment

IAES - Interim Alternative Educational Setting

IDEA - Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

IEP - Individualized Education Program

LD - Learning Disabled

LRE - Least Restrictive Environment

MR - Mentally Retarded

OHI - Other Health Impaired

OT/PT - Occupational Therapy /Physical Therapy

PECS - Picture Exchange Communication System

PRIM - Pre-Referral Intervention Manual

SCIP - Strategies for Crisis Intervention and Prevention

SEIT - Special Education Itinerant Teacher Services

SETRC - Special Education Training Resource Centers

SI - Speech Impaired

TACD - (has to do with disproportionality in Special Education programs)

TBI - Traumatic Brain Injury

TDD - Telecommunication Devices for the Deaf

VESID - The state Office of Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities oversees education programs, training and independent living assistance for people with disabilities.

VI - Visually Impaired

VR - Vocational Rehabilitation

504 - Other Health Impaired (not special ed. students but may qualify for testing mods for other reasons)