CPACE flashcards

32 cards. Read the term and the definition here. The deck at the top of this page is optional.

Shared Vision

A collaboratively developed statement describing the ideal future state of a school that guides decisions, resource allocation, and goal setting across all stakeholder groups.

Local Control and Accountability Plan

A three-year California district plan, updated annually and adopted by July 1, that sets goals, actions, and expenditures aligned to eight state priorities with stakeholder input.

SMART Goal

A goal written to be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound so that progress can be monitored and adjusted during implementation.

Mission versus Vision

A vision describes the desired future state of a school; a mission describes its present purpose and the work used to reach that vision.

School Plan for Student Achievement

A site-level California plan written by the School Site Council that coordinates categorical and LCFF resources with the district LCAP to raise student achievement.

Formative Assessment

Ongoing checks of learning during instruction that teachers use to adjust teaching and give feedback, contrasted with summative assessment of learning at the end of a unit.

Multi-Tiered System of Supports

A tiered framework of academic, behavioral, and social-emotional supports: universal Tier 1 for all students, targeted Tier 2, and intensive Tier 3, driven by screening data.

Designated ELD

A protected block of daily California instruction in which English learners study the English Language Development standards separately, focused on language needed for academic content.

Integrated ELD

English language development delivered within content instruction, where teachers scaffold the language demands of math, science, and other subjects throughout the school day.

PLC Guiding Questions

Four questions professional learning communities use: what should students learn, how will we know they learned it, how do we respond when they have not, and when they have.

California Standards for the Teaching Profession

Six standards addressing engaging and supporting students, creating effective environments, understanding content, planning instruction, assessing learning, and developing as a professional.

Supplemental and Concentration Grants

LCFF funds equal to 20 percent of the base grant per unduplicated pupil, plus 50 percent of base for unduplicated pupils above 55 percent enrollment, restricted to increasing services.

Unduplicated Pupil Count

The number of students who are low income, English learners, or foster youth, each counted once, used to calculate supplemental and concentration funding in California.

Comprehensive School Safety Plan

A California site plan covering disaster procedures, crisis response, bullying prevention, and school climate, developed with law enforcement and reviewed annually by March 1.

Mandated Reporter

A school employee legally required to report suspected child abuse or neglect by telephone immediately or as soon as practicably possible, then in writing within 36 hours.

Williams Act

California law requiring sufficient standards-aligned instructional materials, clean and safe facilities, and appropriately assigned teachers in every school, enforced through the Uniform Complaint Procedure.

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports

A framework that teaches and reinforces expected behaviors through clear expectations, explicit instruction, and data-based tiered supports rather than relying only on punitive discipline.

School Site Council

A California school governance group with a parent and community majority that develops, monitors, and approves the School Plan for Student Achievement and related expenditures.

Epstein's Six Types of Involvement

A parent involvement framework of parenting, communicating, volunteering, learning at home, decision making, and collaborating with the community to support student success.

English Learner Advisory Committee

A school committee required when 21 or more English learners enroll, advising the principal on programs, budgets, and parent outreach for English learners.

Title I School-Parent Compact

A written agreement required in Title I schools describing how families, teachers, and students share responsibility for improving achievement and building two-way communication.

District English Learner Advisory Committee

A district committee required when 51 or more English learners are enrolled, advising the governing board on English learner programs, services, and parent involvement.

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

A federal law giving parents and eligible students the right to inspect, amend, and control disclosure of education records, with limited exceptions such as directory information.

Conflict of Interest

A situation where an official's financial interest or relationship could influence a public decision, requiring disclosure and disqualification under California's Political Reform Act.

Brown Act

California's open meeting law requiring school boards to post agendas 72 hours before regular meetings, deliberate in public, and limit closed sessions to specified purposes.

Weingarten Rights

The right of a unionized employee to request union representation during an investigatory interview that the employee reasonably believes may result in discipline.

Grounds for Certificated Dismissal

California Education Code 44932 grounds including immoral or unprofessional conduct, evident unfitness, persistent violation of law, and refusal to perform duties, subject to due process.

Local Control Funding Formula

California's 2013 funding system of base, supplemental, and concentration grants, paired with LCAP accountability and additional resources targeted to unduplicated pupils.

California School Dashboard

A public report showing status and change on state indicators such as chronic absenteeism, suspension, graduation, and English learner progress across five color levels.

Differentiated Assistance

Support California provides to districts whose student groups perform poorly on dashboard indicators; the district completes root cause analysis and revises LCAP actions.

Comprehensive Support and Improvement

An ESSA designation for the lowest-performing Title I schools, requiring an evidence-based improvement plan developed with stakeholders and monitored by the state.

Free Appropriate Public Education

An IDEA entitlement requiring schools to provide a student with a disability an IEP reasonably calculated to confer educational benefit in the least restrictive environment.