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- School Advisory Council (SAC)
- A school-based committee required by Florida law that reviews school performance data and helps develop and approve the School Improvement Plan; membership must reflect the school's stakeholder groups.
- School Improvement Plan
- An annual, data-driven plan each Florida school develops with its School Advisory Council, stating measurable goals, strategies, and evaluation methods for raising student achievement.
- District school superintendent
- The chief executive officer of a Florida district who executes school board policy, recommends the budget, and supervises schools and personnel on behalf of the elected board.
- Florida school grades
- Annual A through F school ratings under Florida law, computed from achievement, learning gains, learning gains of the lowest 25 percent, graduation rate, and acceleration measures.
- Goss v. Lopez
- U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that students facing short-term suspension are entitled to due process, including notice of the charges and an opportunity to respond.
- FERPA
- Federal statute protecting education records; parents or eligible students may inspect records and schools generally need written consent before disclosing personally identifiable information, subject to stated exceptions.
- Florida Consent Decree
- 1990 agreement requiring Florida districts to identify English learners with a home language survey and provide ESOL instruction, equal access, and parent involvement in a comprehensible format.
- Section 504 plan
- Accommodation plan under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act for a student whose disability substantially limits a major life activity but who does not require an individualized education program.
- MTSS
- Multi-Tiered System of Supports: a three-tier framework using data-based problem solving to deliver core instruction plus targeted and intensive interventions, with progress monitoring deciding movement between tiers.
- PLC guiding questions
- Four questions structuring teacher collaboration: what students should learn, how we will know they learned it, how we respond when they struggle, and how we respond when they already know it.
- Formative assessment
- Ongoing, low-stakes checks for understanding used during instruction so teachers can adjust teaching and students can act on feedback before summative evaluation.
- Learning gains, lowest quartile
- A Florida school-grade component measuring year-over-year test score growth for the quarter of students with the lowest prior scores, emphasizing growth for struggling learners.
- Curriculum-instruction-assessment alignment
- The match among written standards, what is actually taught, and what is assessed; misalignment makes test results invalid evidence that students mastered the standards.
- Instructional walkthrough
- A brief, focused, non-evaluative classroom visit using a common observation tool to gather data on instructional practice and inform feedback and professional learning.
- Data-driven decision making
- A cycle of collecting, disaggregating, and interpreting student data, forming hypotheses, selecting strategies, and monitoring results so instructional adjustments are evidence based.
- Individual Professional Development Plan
- A written plan, required for Florida certificate renewal and linked to performance appraisal, listing professional learning goals, activities, timelines, and evidence of completion.
- In-service points
- Units earned for approved professional learning in Florida; 20 in-service points equal one semester hour, and renewal requires 120 points or 6 semester hours every five years.
- Distributed leadership
- Sharing decision authority and leadership roles with teachers and staff so improvement work is not concentrated in the principal and capacity outlasts personnel changes.
- Deliberate practice
- Purposeful repetition of a specific, measurable skill with immediate feedback and coaching, used to move educators from novice toward expert performance.
- Succession planning
- Systematically identifying, developing, and preparing internal candidates for anticipated leadership vacancies so transitions do not interrupt school improvement work.
- Instructional coaching
- Job-embedded, non-evaluative support in which a coach observes, models, and provides feedback to help a teacher refine practice and improve student outcomes.
- Active listening
- Fully attending to a speaker, paraphrasing the message, asking clarifying questions, and summarizing before responding, which reduces conflict and confirms understanding.
- Sunshine Law
- Florida statute (s. 286.011) requiring meetings and deliberations of public boards to be open and noticed, and barring private discussion of pending business among members.
- Public records law
- Florida chapter 119 requirement that records of official business, including school-related emails and texts, be open to inspection unless a specific exemption applies.
- Crisis communication plan
- A prepared protocol naming the spokesperson, approval chain, holding statements, channels, and update intervals so information during an emergency is accurate and timely.
- Interest-based negotiation
- Resolving disagreement by addressing underlying interests rather than stated positions, generating multiple options, and applying objective criteria, as described by Fisher and Ury.
- Stakeholder communication plan
- A document specifying audiences, key messages, channels, timing, responsible senders, and feedback methods for a school initiative or change.
- Essay thesis statement
- A single sentence in the introduction stating the leader's position or recommended action, which every body paragraph of the response is organized to support.
- Topic sentence
- The first sentence of a body paragraph that names its controlling idea and connects it to the thesis, giving the written response visible organization.
- Concrete example
- A specific, plausible school scenario naming grade level, data source, or stakeholder group, used to show applied leadership rather than general opinion.
- Transitional phrase
- Words such as however, therefore, and in addition that signal the logical relationship between sentences and paragraphs, improving coherence for the reader.
- Revision checklist
- A final pass checking thesis alignment, paragraph unity, sufficiency of support, clarity of language, and grammar before the timed response is submitted.