| ACRONYM |
TERM |
| ABCs |
ABCs Accountability Program |
| ACRE |
Accountability and Curriculum Reform Effort |
| AIG |
Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted |
| AIR |
American Institutes for Research |
| ALD |
Advanced Learning Division |
| AMO |
Annual Measurable Objectives |
| APR |
Annual Performance Report |
| ARCC |
Appalachian Regional Comprehensive Center |
| ASD |
Accountability Services Division |
| ASRC |
Academic Standards Review Commission |
| ASW |
Analysis of Student Work |
| AYP |
Adequate Yearly Progress |
| BUDS |
Budget Utilization Development System |
| CCIP |
Comprehensive Continuous Improvement Plan |
| CCP |
Career and College Promise |
| CCSS |
Common Core State Standards |
| CCSSO |
Council of Chief State School Officers |
| CDM |
Credit by Demonstrated Mastery |
| CFDC |
Consolidated Federal Data Collection System |
| CIHS |
Cooperative Innovative High Schools |
| CII |
Center for Innovation and Improvement |
| CNA |
Comprehensive Needs Assessment |
| COE |
Certificate of Eligibility |
| COP |
Committee of Practitioners |
| CSI |
Comprehensive Support and Improvement |
| CTE |
Career & Technical Education |
| DMG |
Data Management Group |
| DSSF |
Disadvantaged Student Supplemental Funding |
| DST |
District and School Transformation |
| ECD |
Exceptional Children Division |
| ECS |
Extended Content Standards |
| EE |
Educator Effectiveness |
| EDDIE |
Educational Directory and Demographical Information Exchange |
| EDS |
Economically Disadvantaged Students |
| EL |
English Learners |
| ELL |
English Language Learners |
| ELA |
English Language Arts |
| ELP |
English Language Proficiency |
| ELD |
English Language Development |
| EOG |
End-of-Grade |
| ERD |
Educator Recruitment and Development |
| ESEA |
Elementary and Secondary Education Act |
| ESL |
English as a Second Language |
| ESSA |
Every Student Succeeds Act |
| EVAAS |
Education Value-Added Assessment System |
| ExC-ELL |
Expediting Comprehension for English Language Learners |
| FFC |
Framework for Change |
| FPMS |
Federal Program Monitoring and Support |
| FR-OCS |
Future Ready Occupational Course of Study |
| GETC |
Governor’s Education Transformation Commission |
| IBAS |
Integrated Behavior and Academic Support |
| IEP |
Individualized Education Program |
| IHE |
Institute of Higher Education |
| IIS |
Instructional Improvement System |
| JLEOC |
Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee |
| KUCRL |
University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning |
| LEA |
Local Educational Agency |
| LEASA |
Local Educational Agency Self-Assessment |
| LEP |
Limited English Proficiency |
| LIEP |
Language Instructional Education Program |
| McREL |
Mid-continent Research Education Laboratory |
| MDC |
Master Data Calendar |
| MET |
Measuring Effective Teaching |
| MOU |
Memorandum of Understanding |
| MOOC |
Massive Open Online Course |
| MSL |
Measures of Student Learning |
| MTSS |
Multi-Tiered Systems of Supports |
| NCAE |
NC Association of Educators |
| NCDPI |
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction |
| NCEES |
North Carolina Educator Evaluation System |
| NCEXTEND1 |
North Carolina Alternate Assessment |
| NCGA |
North Carolina General Assembly |
| NCMEP |
North Carolina Migrant Education Program |
| NCPAPA |
NC Principals and Assistant Principals Association |
| NC SCoS |
North Carolina Standard Course of Study |
| NCSIP |
North Carolina State Improvement Project |
| NCVPS |
North Carolina Virtual Public School |
| NGA |
National Governors Association |
| NICHD |
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development |
| OCS |
Occupational Course of Study |
| OCT |
Observation Calibration Tool |
| OSEP |
Office of Special Education Programs |
| PANC |
Personnel Administrators of North Carolina |
| PARCC |
Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers |
| PBIS |
Positive Behavior Intervention and Support |
| PFS |
Priority for Services |
| PLC |
Professional Learning Community |
| PQRs |
Program Quality Reviews |
| PTC |
Peer Tutoring Center |
| RBT |
Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy |
| READY |
College and Career Ready, Set, Go! |
| RESAs |
Regional Education Service Alliances |
| RLIS |
Rural and Low-Income Schools |
| RtI |
Responsiveness to Instruction |
| RttT |
Race to the Top |
| SBAC |
SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium |
| SBE |
State Board of Education |
| SCOS |
Standard Course of Study |
| SEA |
State Educational Agency |
| SERVE |
SERVE Center at UNC-Greensboro |
| SHAC |
School Health Advisory Council |
| SIG |
School Improvement Grants |
| SIM |
Strategic Instruction Model |
| SiMR |
State-Identified Measurable Results |
| SIOP |
Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol |
| SISEP |
State Implementation and Scaling up Evidence-based Practices |
| SIT |
School Improvement Team |
| SL |
Session Law |
| SMHI |
School Mental Health Initiative |
| SP3 |
State Policy Pilot Program |
| SREB |
Southern Region Education Board |
| SRSA |
Small, Rural School Achievement |
| STEM |
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics |
| SWD |
Students with Disabilities |
| TAS |
Targeted Assistance School |
| TIF |
Teacher Incentive Fund |
| TSI |
Targeted Support and Improvement |
| UDL |
Universal Design for Learning |
| USED |
U.S. Department of Education |
| WIDA |
World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment |
| WSCC |
Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model |
