Thursday, August 23, 2007
back to school
Ah, the long hot days of August slowly fade into the gentle gusts of autumn. . .
and the start of a new school year is at hand. My fifteenth year as a special education teacher has begun. This week is all preparations and meetings. Yesterday brought the dreaded annual district-wide meeting, where like-minded special education professionals from across our fair city filled up the auditorium at one of the high schools and heard the words of administration passed down from on high: policies, procedures, initiatives, plans, yada yada yada blah blah blah.
Here is a list of acronyms I heard at yesterdays meeting:
AGC
ARD
BIP
BTC
EGL
EHS
ESC
FBA
IDEA
IEP
LDAA
PBMAS
PLOAP
PLOP
SBS
SCORES
SDAA
SEEDS
SMSCD
SPP
SSR
TAKS
TAKS-ALT
TAKS-M
TCASE
TEA
TEKS
Sadly, I could expound at length and in great boring detail about intricacies and legalities of most of them.
Sadder still, there are several on the list that I must confess to not having a freaking clue what they mean.
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and the start of a new school year is at hand. My fifteenth year as a special education teacher has begun. This week is all preparations and meetings. Yesterday brought the dreaded annual district-wide meeting, where like-minded special education professionals from across our fair city filled up the auditorium at one of the high schools and heard the words of administration passed down from on high: policies, procedures, initiatives, plans, yada yada yada blah blah blah.
Here is a list of acronyms I heard at yesterdays meeting:
AGC
ARD
BIP
BTC
EGL
EHS
ESC
FBA
IDEA
IEP
LDAA
PBMAS
PLOAP
PLOP
SBS
SCORES
SDAA
SEEDS
SMSCD
SPP
SSR
TAKS
TAKS-ALT
TAKS-M
TCASE
TEA
TEKS
Sadly, I could expound at length and in great boring detail about intricacies and legalities of most of them.
Sadder still, there are several on the list that I must confess to not having a freaking clue what they mean.
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