- Cleveland Metropolitan School District
- New Teacher Handbook
CMSD Acronyms
AAP Academic Achievement Plan
ACT American College Test
ADM Average Daily Membership
AFT American Federation of Teachers
AIT Academic Intervention Teacher
AP Assistant Principal
AP Advanced Placement, high school high-level courses
APT Academic Progress Team
AR Accelerated Reader
ATC Action Team Coach
AU Autism
AYP Adequate Yearly Progress
BB Barrier Breaker
BIP Behavior Intervention Plan
BLT Building Level Team
CAO Chief Academic Officer
CAP Corrective Action Plan
CBA Collective Bargaining Agreement
CCSS Common Core State Standards
CD Cognitive Disabilities – Intellectual Disabilities
CEO Chief Executive Officer
CEUs Continuing Education Units
CFL Conditions for Learning
CFO Chief Financial Officer
CIS Curriculum and Instruction Specialist
CM Classroom Meetings
CMSD Cleveland Metropolitan School District
COO Chief Operating Officer
CTAG Closing the Achievement Gap
CTE Career and Technical Education
CTU Cleveland Teachers Union
CWA Community Wrap Around
D/B Deaf/Blindness
DD Developmental Delay
ED Emotionally Disabled
ELA English Language Arts
ELL English Language Learner
EMIS Educational Management Information System
EOC End of Course Test
EPDC East Professional Development Center
ERF Employee Request Form
ESC Educational Service Center
ESEA Elementary and Secondary Education Act
ESSA Every Student Succeeds Act
ESL English as a Second Language
ESP Encore Teachers
ETR Evaluation Team Report
eTPES Electronic Teacher & Principal Evaluation System – summative evaluation
FACE Family and Community Engagement
FBA Functional Behavior Assessment
FERPA Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
FIM First in Math
FIP Formative Instructional Practices
GT Gifted and Talented
GGG Get It Got It Go (Preschool testing)
GPA Grade Point Average
GRE Graduate Record Exam
HEC Higher Education Act
HI Hearing Impairment
HIPPA Health Insurance Portability Act
HR Human Resources
HST High School Transition
ID Intellectual Disability
IEP Individual Educational Plan
IPDP Individual Professional Development Plan
IPR Interim Progress Report
ITR Infor Teach Resources
IVR Interactive Voice Response (Automated Phone Calls)
jROTC Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
JSEC Joint Special Education Committee
KRAL Kindergarten Readiness Assessment Literacy
LEA Local Education Agency (CMSD)
LEP Limited English Proficiency
LMS Learning Management System
MAP Measures of Academic Progress – Test associated NWEA
MD Multiple Disabilities
MF Medically Fragile
MFE Multi-factored Evaluation
MOU Memorandum of Understanding – agreements between CTU and CMSD outside the CBA
NOW Not On Our Watch
NWEA Northwest Evaluation Association – assessments used for data
OAM Orientation and Mobility
ODE Ohio Department of Education
OFT Ohio Federation of Teachers
OHI Other Health Impairment(s) – could be Major or Minor
OH/ID Ohio Identification Portal
OI Orthopedic Impairment
OIP Ohio Improvement Process
OPD Office of Professional Development
OPES Ohio Principal Evaluation System
OST Ohio State Tests – Grades 4-8 Reading/Math
OT Occupational Therapy (Therapist)
OTELA Ohio Test of English Language Acquisition
OTES Ohio Teacher Evaluation System
PAR Peer Assistance and Review
PATHS Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies
PBL Problem Based Learning
PBL Project Based Learning
PCIA Planning Center Instruction Aid
PD Professional Development
PE Physical Education
PLC Professional Learning Community
PLTW Project Lead the Way
PRE4CLE Pre Kindergarten for Cleveland
PSAT Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test
PSEOP Post Secondary Education Opportunity Program
PT Physical Therapy (Therapist)
RE Resident Educator
RIMP Reading Intervention Monitoring Program
RSBP Responsible Sexual Behavior Program
RSPs Related Service Providers (nurses, psychologists, SLPs, OTs, PTs, etc.)
RTA Regional Transit Authority
RTI Response to Intervention
SAT Scholastic Aptitude Test
SBB School Based Budgeting
SDI Specific Designed Instruction
SEL Social Emotional Learning
SIG Student Improvement Grant
SLD Specific Learning Disability
SLI Speech or Language Impairment
SLP Speech Language Pathologist
SOP Summary of Performance
SPED Special Education
SPO School Parent Organization
SST Student Support Team
STAR Standardized Test for Readiness (Early Literacy)
STEAM Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics
STEM Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
S&S Scope and Sequence
SST Student Support Team
TBI Traumatic Brain Injury
TBT Teacher Based Team
TDES Teacher Development and Evaluation System
TOEFL Test of English as a Foreign Languages
TESOL Teaching English to Students of Other Languages
TGRG Third Grade Reading Guarantee
UBD Understanding By Design
UCC Union Conference Committee
UWGC United Way of Greater Cleveland
VA Value Added
VI Visual Impairment
WAP Written Acceleration Plan (for subject, whole grade, early entry, and early grad)
WAVE Winning Against Violent Environment
WEP Written Education Plan (for gifted identified)
WMA Written Mutual Agreement – specific in the CBA and building level