ECCE 2312 Alphabet Soup

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  1. 3. is a year- long, performance-based assessment. GKIDS replaced the former kindergarten assessment in the 2008-09 school year. GKIDS will document your child's progress on the Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE) throughout his or her kindergarten year
  2. 6. a person to whom a particular aspect of a professional task is delegated but who is not licensed to practice as a fully qualified professional
  3. 8. is a piece of American legislation that ensures students with a disability are provided with a Free Appropriate Public Education that is tailored to their individual needs. IDEA was previously known as the Education for All Handicapped Children Act from 1975 to 1990
  4. 11. is the main education law for public schools in the United States. The law holds schools accountable for how students learn and achieve. ESSA aims to provide an equal opportunity for disadvantaged students, including those who get special education.
  5. 12. participates in student-focused collaboration with other Georgia education agencies and the Governor’s office. Together, we facilitate student success by aligning policymakers, education agencies, and strategic partners to promote a shared commitment and improve educational outcomes
  6. 13. is the largest education award given to school districts in the U.S. The $1 million prize is awarded each year to urban school districts that demonstrate the greatest overall performance and improvement in student achievement as well as a reduction in the achievement gap for low-income students and students of color.
  7. 15. are co-created benchmarks of nonprofit governance, finances, fundraising, and public communication, representing the shared expectations between donors and nonprofits. The Standards serve as the starting place for conversation and relationship.
  8. 16. is a legal document under United States law that is developed for each public-school child in the U.S. who needs special education. It is created through a team of the child's parent and district personnel who are knowledgeable about the child's needs
  9. 18. is an educational initiative from 2010 that details what K–12 students throughout the United States should know in English language arts and mathematics at the conclusion of each school grade
  10. 19. A board of education, school committee or school board is the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or equivalent. The elected council determines the educational policy in a small regional area, such as a city, county, state, or province
  11. 20. is a measurement defined by the United States federal No Child Left Behind Act that allows the U.S. Department of Education to determine how every public school and school district in the country is performing academically according to results on standardized tests
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  1. 1. means that a child with a disability must be educated within the same classroom as typical mainstreamed non-disabled peers to the fullest extent possible in order to ensure that a disabled child is receiving a free appropriate public education (FAPE)
  2. 2. is a program that provides federal funds through the Georgia Department of Education to local educational agencies (LEAs) and public schools with high numbers or percentages of children in poverty to help ensure that all children meet challenging state academic content and student academic achievement standards
  3. 4. is aligned to the state-adopted Georgia Standards of Excellence in Language Arts (K-12), Mathematics (K-12), and literacy standards for Science, Social Studies, and Technical Education for middle and high school students
  4. 5. Act is authorizes state-run programs for eligible schools and districts eager to raise the academic achievement of struggling learners and address the complex challenges that arise for students who live with disability, mobility problems, learning difficulties, poverty, or transience, or who need to learn English
  5. 7. is an educational entitlement of all students in the United States who are identified as having a disability, guaranteed by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
  6. 9. is defined as the level of work that demonstrates achievement of the standards, enabling a teacher to know “how good is good enough.” The performance standards isolate and identify the skills needed to use the knowledge and skills to problem-solve, reason, communicate, and make connections with other information
  7. 10. was a $4.35 billion United States Department of Education competitive grant created to spur and reward innovation and reforms in state and local district K–12 education.
  8. 14. are yearly learning targets set by the state of Washington in reading and mathematics
  9. 17. in education refers to the disparity in academic performance between groups of students