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SAAC - Student Advisory Accountability Committee
SACC - School-aged Child Care
SAPP - Substance Abuse Prevention Project
SAT - Scholastic Aptitude Test
Tests of academic subjects given to high school students and used for
entrance to college.
Saxon math
Traditional approach using rote memorization
SBM - Site-Based Management
Team of parents, teachers, and administrators sharing decision-making
to determine building policies, budgets, and other management issues
Scholastic Literacy Place
Commercial literature-based reading program
Scope and Sequence
Curriculum presented in an ordered sequence; an outline of skills to
be taught and the grade level at which skills are exposed, introduced,
emphasized, targeted, or reinforced.
Scott Foresman
Basal reader series
SEARCH
Gifted and talented program in Adams District 12
Second Step
Classroom program which teaches empathy, resiliency, problem solving,
impulse control, and anger management; student mediators receive
training and help other students resolve problems in a positive manner
SED - Severe Emotionally Disabled
Senior Tax Exchange
Senior citizens work in the school district and receive credit for a
portion of their property taxes
SER - Success in Early Reading
See Reading Recovery
SERS - Special Education Resource Services
Shakespeare Festival
Each spring selected Denver Public Schools students perform
Shakespeare scenes on the downtown 16th Street Mall
SI - Significant Impairment
Special education program for students with emotional problems
SIAC - School Improvement and Accountability Committee
Made up of parents, students, community members, staff, and the
principal; goals are to raise student achievement, improve attendance
and parental involvement, increase graduation rate, and make budget
recommendations; in all Colorado public schools, mandated by state law
SIEBD - Significant Identifiable Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
Also called BD, EBD, ED, and SIED
SIED - Significant Identifiable Emotional Disorders
Also called BD, EBD, ED, and SIEBD
Silver Burdett Ginn
Basal reader series
SIP - Supporting Intellectual Potential
Gifted and talented program
SIPC - School Improvement Process Council
SISC
Parent group
SIT - School Improvement Team
Accountability group which develops school goals and objectives in
Boulder Valley Schools
Six Trait Writing
Focus on analyzing student writing and prescribing instruction based
on the traits of ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence
fluency, and conventions
Skillstreaming
Program to develop and improve social skills
S/L - Speech and Language
Treatment available to students exhibiting difficulties with speech
articulation and/or language disorders
SLIC - Significant Limited Intellectual Capacity
See EMH in this glossary
SLLD - Significant Language and Learning Disabilities
See LD - Learning Disabilities in this glossary
SOAR - Success Oriented Academic Readiness
For grades K-2 in Adams County District 14
SOAR
After-school recreation program developed and sponsored by the city
of Denver and the Colorado Rockies, in six DPS middle schools and nine
elementary schools
Special Education
Broad term for programs which assist students with handicaps or
disabilities that interfere with learning
Special Olympics
Athletic competition for special-needs children
Special Reading
Littleton Public Schools program providing extra help in reading
skills by specially trained teachers in regular classrooms and in
small-group settings
SSN - Significant Support Needs
Special education program to address learning disabilities
Standardized Tests
Published tests which are usually given to a wide group of students;
they are frequently used to compare student achievement between schools
and states
STARR - Speaking, Technology, and Analysis through Reading and
Research
Student Conflict Managers
Students trained to assist in problem solving on playground and/or
among peers
Success from the Start
Early intervention reading program for at-risk students in grades
K-3; focus on small group instruction
Successful Schools Project
Assistance for high-risk students in schools with high percentage of
such students
SUMMIT - Scholars United for Multi-cultural, Multi-media Inquiry in
Teaching
Funding source for research-based, multi-cultural curriculum in the
classroom
SuPR - Success in Primary Reading
Reading support program to help primary-level children become better
readers; has same basic philosophy as CLIP and Reading Recovery but
without the intensive teacher training
Suzuki
Method for teaching the violin to children
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