D11 COMMONLY USED (AND SOME OLDER NOTAS COMMONLY USED) ACRONYMS
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| AASA |
American Association of School Administrators |
| ABE |
Adult Basic Education |
| ACE |
Alternative Cooperative Education |
| ACFR |
Annual Comprehensive Financial Report |
| ACO |
Administrative Contracting Officer |
| ACT |
American College Testing |
| ACT |
Academic System, Culture of Performance and Talent Development |
| AD |
Athletic Director |
| ADA |
Americans with Disabilities Act |
| ADD |
Attention Deficit Disorder |
| ADHD |
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |
| ADE |
Automated Data Exchange |
| ADM |
Administration |
| ADS |
Application Development and Support (ara: Information Systems or IS) |
| AEC |
Alternate Education Campus |
| AED |
Amortization Equalization Disbursement |
| AEFLA |
Adult Education Family Literacy Act |
| AERO |
Assessment, Enrollment and Research Office (ara: DPRE) (“E” used to be Evaluation) |
| AFE |
Adult and Family Education |
| ALJ |
Administrative Law Judge |
| ALL |
Achievement, Learning and Leadership (ara: ICSS) |
| ALP |
Advanced Learning Plan |
| AMAO |
Annual Measurable Achievement Outcomes |
| AMP |
Academic Master Plan |
| AP |
Assistant Principal |
| APF |
Annual Performance Framework |
| APPLE |
Academic Performance Plan for the Learning Environment |
| APR |
Annual Performance Review |
| ARA |
Also Referenced As |
| ARC |
Annual Required Contribution (for pension reporting) |
| ARCA |
Assessment, Research and Curriculum Alignment (ara: TISS) |
| ARRA |
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act |
| ASBO |
Association of School Business Officials |
| ASCA |
American School Counselors Association |
| ASCD |
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development |
| ASCENT |
Accelerating Students through Concurrent Enrollment |
| ASE |
Adult Secondary Education |
| AV |
Audio Visual |
| AVID |
Advancement Via Individual Determination |
| AVP |
Area Vocational Program |
| AYP |
Adequate Yearly Progress |
| BAAC |
Building Accountability Advisory Committee (ara: SAC) |
| BAB |
Breakfast After the Bell |
| BEST |
Boards of Education Self-funded Trust |
| BFI |
Best First Instruction |
| BIA |
Business Incentive Agreement |
| BIC |
Breakfast in the Classroom or Benefits Insurance Committee |
| BIP |
Behavior Intervention Plan |
| BMF |
Budget Modification Form (ara: IBR) |
| BOCES |
Board of Cooperative Education Service |
| BOE |
Board of Education |
| BRI |
Basic Reading Inventory |
| BYOD |
Bring Your Own Device |
| C&I |
Curriculum & Instruction |
| CAFR |
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report |
| CASB |
Colorado Association of School Boards |
| CASE |
Colorado Association of School Executives |
| CBLA |
Colorado Basic Literacy Act (ara: READ Act) |
| CBOC |
Citizens Bond Oversight Committee |
| CCR |
Communications and Community Relations |
| CD |
Compact Disc or Certificate of Deposit |
| CDE |
Colorado Department of Education |
| CEA |
Colorado Education Association |
| CESP |
Certified Educational Support Professional |
| CFO |
Chief Financial Officer |
| CFR |
Claim Fluctuation Reserve |
| CIO |
Chief Information Officer |
| CIT |
Coordinator of Information Technology (ara: LTE) |
| CLDE |
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education |
| CMAS |
Colorado Measures of Academic Success (science and social studies) (ara: TCAP) |
| COBRA |
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act |
| CogAT |
Cognitive Abilities Test (commonly used to assess accelerated learners) |
| COP |
Certificate(s) of Participation |
| COTR |
Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative |
| CP |
Collection Point |
| CPI |
Crisis Prevention Intervention or Consumer Price Index |
| CPKP |
Colorado Preschool Kindergarten Program |
| CPP |
Colorado Preschool Program |
| CPR |
Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation |
| CQI |
Continuous Quality Improvement |
| CRF |
Capital Reserve Fund |
| CRO |
Chief Resource Officer |
| CSAP |
Colorado Student Assessment Program (ara: TCAP) |
| CSASE |
Colorado Springs Association of School Executives |
| CSEA |
Colorado Springs Education Association |
| CSSD |
Colorado Springs School District |
| CSSM |
Comprehensive Student Support Model |
| CTA |
Career Technical Act |
| CTE |
Career Technical Education |
| CY |
Calendar Year |
| D-11 or D11 |
District 11 or some other school district as D-followed by their district number (D-20) |
| DA |
Decision Analysis |
| DAAC |
District Advisory and Accountability Committee (ara: DAC) |
| DAC |
District Accountability Committee (ara: DAAC) |
| DACBC |
DAC Budget Committee |
| DALT |
District Achievement Level Tests |
| DAP |
Diversity Action Plan |
| DARS |
District Acquisition Regulation System |
| DARTS |
Department of Assessment, Research and Technology Services (ara: Tech Services) |
| DASAE |
Diploma of Advanced Study in Adult Education |
| DBS |
Division of Business Services |
| DECA |
Distributive Educational Clubs of America |
| DHH |
Deaf and Hard of Hearing |
| DIBELS |
Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills |
| DIP |
District Improvement Plan (ara: UDIP) |
| DOK |
Depth of Knowledge |
| DPF |
District Performance Framework |
| DPGF |
Designated Purpose Grant Fund |
| DPRE |
Department of Planning, Research and Evaluation |
| DSLC |
Diagnostic Services and Learning Center (housed at Tesla) |
| DST |
District Support Technician |
| E & O |
Errors and Omissions (insurance) |
| EA |
Education Assistant (special education teaching assistant) |
| EAC |
Energy Advisory Committee |
| EAGLES |
Exceptional Academic Gifted Learning Experience Site |
| EASI |
Empowering Action for School Improvement |
| EASy |
Educational Achievement System/Easy Access to Subjects |
| ECOT |
Emergency Crisis Operations Team |
| EDSL |
Executive Directors of School Leadership |
| EDSS |
Educational Data Support Services |
| EEO |
Equal Employment Opportunities |
| EFL |
Educational Functional Level |
| EFT |
Electronic Funds Transfer |
| ELAT |
English Literature Admissions Test or Early Literacy Assessment Tool |
| ELC |
Early Learning Center |
| ELL |
English Language Learners |
| ELPA |
English Language Proficiency Act |
| ELSIP |
Excess of Loss Self Insurance Pool |
| EMO |
Education Management Organization (for charter schools) |
| EOP |
Equal Opportunity Program |
| EOY |
End Of Year |
| EPO |
Exclusive Provider Organization |
| ERO |
Electronic Registrar Online system |
| ES |
Elementary School |
| ESEA |
Elementary & Secondary Education Act |
| ESP |
Education Support Professional, sometimes Education Service Provider |
| ESSA |
Every Student Succeeds Act (ara: NCLB) |
| ESY |
Extended School Year |
| FAC |
Facilities Advisory Committee |
| FBLA |
Future Business Leaders of America |
| FDK |
Full-Day Kindergarten |
| FERPA |
Family Education Rights and Privacy Act |
| FMLA |
Family Medical Leave Act |
| FMP |
Facilities Master Plan |
| FNS |
Food and Nutrition Services |
| FOTC |
Facilities Operations and Transportation Center |
| FPC |
Funded Pupil Count |
| FSCP |
Family School Community Partnership |
| FTE |
Full Time Equivalent |
| FY |
Fiscal Year |
| GAAP |
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles |
| GASB |
Governmental Accounting Standards Board |
| GB |
Gigabyte |
| GED |
General Educational Development |
| GFOA |
Government Finance Officers Association |
| GK12 |
Galileo K12 (academic assessment program) |
| GOF |
General Operating Fund |
| GRT |
Gifted Resource Teacher |
| GT |
Gifted and Talented |
| HB |
House Bill, usually followed by abbreviated calendar year and a 4 digit identifying number |
| HESP |
Home Education Support Program |
| HR |
Human Resources |
| HRI |
House Bill introducing “Leave No Child Behind” |
| HRO |
Holmes, Robert & Owen (D11's legal representation group) merged with/now Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner |
| HS |
High School |
| IB |
International Baccalaureate |
| IBB |
Interest Based Bargaining (salary negotiations) |
| IBNR |
Incurred But Not Reported (Claims) |
| IBR |
Incremental Budget Request (ara: Part II Budget Request form, ara: by BMF) |
| ICAP |
Individual Career and Academic Plan |
| ICSS |
Instruction, Curriculum, and Student Services (ara: ALL or C&I) |
| IDEA |
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act |
| IEC |
Irving Education Center |
| IEL |
Integrated English Literacy |
| IEP |
Individualized Education Plan |
| IGA |
Internal Governmental Agreement |
| ILP |
Individual Literacy Plan |
| IMS |
Instructional Management System |
| INR |
Intent Not to Rehire |
| IP |
Internet Protocol |
| IPT |
IDEA Oral Language Proficiency Test |
| IS |
Information Services (ara: ADS) |
| IT |
Information and Technology |
| ITBS |
Iowa Tests of Basic Skills |
| JBC |
Joint Budget Committee |
| JROTC |
Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps |
| KPI |
Key Performance Indicator |
| LAN |
Local Area Network |
| LEP |
Limited English Proficient (or Proficiency) |
| LMT |
Library Media Technician (ara: LTT) |
| LRE |
Least Restrictive Environment |
| LRS |
Learning Resource Services |
| LRSUS |
Long Range School Utilization Study |
| LRT |
Literacy Resource Teacher (ara: TLC) |
| LST |
Literacy/Standards Teacher |
| LTD |
Long Term Disability |
| LTE |
Library Technology Educator |
| LTT |
Library Technology Technician |
| MAP |
Measurement of Academic Progress |
| MESA |
Math, Engineering and Science Achievement |
| MGP |
Median Growth Percentile |
| MIS |
Major Improvement Strategy |
| MLO |
Mill Levy Override |
| MLOOC |
Mill Levy Override Oversight Committee |
| MOA |
Memorandum of Agreement |
| MOU |
Memorandum of Understanding |
| MS |
Middle School |
| MTSS |
Multi-Tier Support System (ara: Response to Interventions or RtI) |
| MY |
Mid-Year |
| MYP |
Middle Years Program (pertains to IB) |
| NCLB |
No Child Left Behind Act (ara: ESSA) |
| NEA |
National Education Association |
| NGLC |
Next Generation Learning Challenges |
| NTO |
New Teacher Orientation |
| OBE |
Outcome Based Evaluation or Overcome by Events |
| OPEB |
Other Post-Employment Benefits |
| OSCR |
Office of School and Community Relations (ara: CCR) |
| OSPB |
Office of State Planning and Budget |
| OU |
Optimization of Utilization |
| PAC |
Personnel Advisory Committee |
| PACT |
Parent And Child Together |
| PARCC |
Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (English, language arts, math) (ara: TCAP) |
| PBDA |
Preliminary Budget Development Assumptions |
| PBIS |
Positive Behavior Intervention Support |
| PBS |
Positive Behavior Support |
| PC |
Personal Computer |
| PD |
Professional Development |
| PEAC |
Personnel Evaluation & Advisory Committee |
| PERA |
Public Employee Retirement Association |
| PHLOTE |
Primary or Home Language Other Than English |
| PIP |
Program Implementation Plan (in relation to MLO items) |
| PLC |
Professional Learning Community |
| PLP |
Personal Learning Plan |
| PLTW |
Project Lead the Way |
| PMO |
Project Management Office |
| PO |
Purchase Order |
| POPP |
Post Offer/Pre-Placement Physical |
| POS |
Preliminary Offering Statement |
| POSA |
Principal On Special Assignment |
| PPASBO |
Pikes Peak Association of School Business Officials |
| PPO |
Preferred Provider Organization |
| PPOR |
Per Pupil Operating Revenue |
| PPR |
Per Pupil Revenue |
| PRC |
Professional Resource Center |
| PRO |
Police Resource Officer (in Middle Schools) (also SRO) |
| PSEO |
Post-Secondary Enrollment Options |
| PSS |
Personnel Support Services |
| PYIB |
Primary Years International Baccalaureate program |
| Q |
Aequitas Solutions (parent/teacher/student connection system) (ara: Zangle) |
| QRI II |
Qualitative Reading Inventory (first through fifth graders) |
| QZAB |
Qualified Zone Academy Bond |
| RCM |
Resource Conservation Management/Manager |
| READ Act |
Colorado Reading to Ensure Academic Development (ara: CBLA) |
| RFI |
Request For Information |
| RFP |
Request For Proposal |
| RFQ |
Request For Quote |
| RJWAC |
Roy J. Wasson Academic Campus |
| ROI |
Rate of Increase or Return on Investment |
| RRAF |
Risk-Related Activity Fund |
| RtI |
Response to Interventions (ara: MTSS) |
| SA |
Situation Analysis |
| SAC |
School Accountability Committee (ara: BAAC) |
| SAGE |
Sustainable Agricultural Green Education |
| SAIL |
Student-centered Academic Interdisciplinary Lab (or Learning) |
| SAR |
School Accountability Report |
| SAT |
Scholastic Aptitude Test (ara: the Scholastic Assessment Test & the SAT Reasoning Test) |
| SB |
Senate Bill (usually followed by abbreviated calendar year and a 2 or 3-digit identifying no.) |
| SBB |
School Based Budgeting |
| SBE |
Standards Based Education |
| SBR |
Standards Based Reporting |
| SCAUSC |
School Configuration And Use Study Committee |
| SEL |
Social Emotional Learning |
| SEMS |
Substitute Employee Management System |
| SES |
Supplemental Educational Services |
| SFE |
Smart Find Express (employee absence reporting system) |
| SIED |
Significant Identified Emotional Disorder |
| SIOP |
Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol |
| SIP |
School Improvement Plan (ara: USIP) |
| SIPPS |
Systematic Instruction in Phonological (awareness), Phonics, and Sight words (K-3) |
| SIRSI |
This is not an acronym but the actual name of the library online catalog system |
| SIS |
Student Information System |
| SLD |
Specific Learning Disability |
| SLIC |
Significantly Limited Identifiable/Communicable |
| SLO |
Student Learning Outcome |
| SMART |
Specific, Measureable, Attainable, Realistic, Time-bound |
| SMP |
Strategic Master Plan |
| SOT |
Specific Ownership Taxes |
| SPED |
Special Education |
| SPF |
School Performance Framework |
| SRD |
Sufficient Reading Deficiency |
| SRO |
School Resource Officer (positions are filled by D11 Security or CSPD) |
| SSA |
School and Student Activity |
| STAMP |
STAndards-based Measures in Proficiency (world languages assessment) |
| STEAM |
Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math |
| STEM |
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math |
| SWOT |
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats |
| SY |
School Year |
| TA |
Teaching Assistant |
| TABOR |
TAxpayers Bill Of Rights |
| TAC |
Transportation Advisory Committee |
| TAN |
Tax Anticipation Note |
| TAP |
Targeted Assessment for Prevention Strategy |
| TCAP |
Transitional Colorado Assessment Program (ara: CSAP) (ara: PARCC & CMAS) |
| TCP |
Time Clock Plus (employee time-keeping system, used district wide) |
| TCT |
Teachers Coaching Teachers Program |
| TELL |
Teaching, Empowering, Leading and Learning survey |
| TIF |
Teacher Incentive Fund |
| TISS |
Technology Integration Support Services (ara: ARCA) |
| TLC |
Teacher Learning Coach (ara: Literacy Resource Teacher or LRT) |
| TOLI |
Trust-Owned Life Insurance |
| TOSA |
Teacher On Special Assignment |
| TPA |
Third Party Administrator |
| TSA |
Tax Sheltered Annuity |
| TSI |
Targeted Support and Improvement |
| UDIP |
Unified District Improvement Plan |
| UPK |
Universal Pre-Kindergarten |
| USIP |
Unified School Improvement Plan |
| VAPA |
Visual And Performing Arts |
| VEBA |
Voluntary Employees' Beneficiary Association |
| WAN |
Wide Area Network |
| WCIL |
West Center for Intergenerational Learning |
| WICOR |
Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization and Read to Learn |
| WIDA |
A language development resource developed by & named after Wisconsin, Delaware and Arkansas |
| YE |
Year-End |
| YPAE |
Young People’s Art Exhibition |
| ZBB |
Zero Based Budget |
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