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D62 Education Terms

School districts often use abbreviations for educational terms. We're sharing some common ones to help you understand them.

  • AI: Artificial Intelligence
  • ACCESS: English language proficiency assessment administered to English Language Learner students in kindergarten through 12th grade in Illinois. 
  • BPAC: Bilingual Parent Advisory Council
  • empowerEd: Consulting firm with expertise in special education, inclusion and equity
  • ESY: Extended School Year summer school program
  • FDK: Full day kindergarten
  • Hexters: Program which allows 6th grade students to experience each Encore class for 6 weeks. Hexter classes include Drama, Music, Family and Consumer Science  (FACS), Art, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) and Spanish.
  • Newcomers: Foreign-born people who have recently arrived to the United States.
  • MAP: Measures of Academic Progress - a computerized adaptive assessment that measures a student’s achievement and growth in K–12 math, reading, language usage, and science.
  • MTSS: Multi-tiered systems of support a framework to support students divided into three tiers -
    • Tier 3: Intensive individualized/small-group interventions for those students who have significant academic or behavioral needs
    • Tier 2: Targeted group interventions for at-risk students utilizing classroom and small group academic and behavioral strategies
    • Tier 1: Universal, school-wide interventions designed for all learners and intended to prevent academic and behavioral challenges 
  • Parent University: Two-week program designed for Multilingual Learner families. 
  • PLC: Professional Learning Community
  • SAEBRS: Social Emotional Learning (SEL) screening tool
  • SEPAC: Special Education Parent Advisory Council
  • SEL: Social Emotional Learning
  • SNK: Special Needs Kindergarten
  • SRO: School Resource Officer
  • WIN: What I Need - intervention block for students