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Friday, November 27, 2015

Small Business Saturday ( and don't forget your local bookseller)

After the big box madness that has become Black Friday is the totally
lovable celebration of Small Business Saturday. Saturday also acts as
Indies First, a day to show your love for local booksellers and meet
authors as they talk to you about books at the counter of your local
bookstore. Sherman Alexie, the mastermind behind the event, will be at
Elliott Bay offering book recommendations, Book Larder will be hosting a
bunch of local cookbook authors (including Renee Erickson), and there
will be a YA panel and sci-fi panel at University Bookstore. Don’t
forget about Ravenna Third Place, Phinney Books, and Ada’s Technical
Books, among others, and make this holiday one where you give the gift
of books (I’m pretty excited to give my sisters an adult coloring book
and Humans of New York: Stories).

2 comments:

Comfort and Joy
said...

Thanks for this. We went to Indies First at Elliott Bay Books Co., where my kid and Sherman Alexie chatted. Alexie asked my kid where he went to school and I answered he was in Scott Pinkham's district, to which Alexie smiled and nodded.

I had dithered about buying a coloring book for my imooto (Japanese sister-in-law, younger than I), but she too is grieving the far-too-early loss of her husband so I bought for her at EBB a Seattle coloring book with some pencils. I don't know where she is in the grief process so I didn't get her 12 gray pencils, which those wanting vérité to their Seattle-from-November-to-March pictures would use. "I'm coloring the sun purple," my kid told Alexie who was judging the coloring contest, "I don't know what color the sun is, I've lived here all my life."

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Education Acroynms

Advanced Learning - SPS' three-tier program for advanced learners. Made up of APP, Spectrum and ALOs. (Note: the name of the district program is "Advanced Learning Services and Programs" but these three programs fall under "Highly Capable Services" of AL Services and Programs.

ALO - Advanced Learning Opportunity, the third tier of SPS' Advanced Learning program

AP - Advanced Placement. A national program of college-level classes given in high schools.

APP - Accelerated Progress Program. One of the levels of the Advanced Learning Program. NOTE: the name of this program is now "HIGHLY CAPABLE COHORT." This change occurred in 2014.

ASB - Associated Student Body. High school leadership groups.

AYP - Adequate Yearly Progress. Part of NCLB.

BEX - Building Excellence. SPS' capital renovation/rebuilding program that is funded via the BEX levy. Every 3 years there is the Operations levy and either the BEX or BTA levies as those two levies rotate in six year cycles).

BLT - Building Leadership Team. Staff members at a school who meet regularly to discuss building issues.

BTA - Buildings, Technology, Academics. The major maintenance/other capital fund for SPS. Originally BTA was to cover major maintenance like HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning), roofs, waterlines, etc.) but now covers wide swaths of items like athletic fields, technology and funding academic needs.

CAICEE - Community Advisory Committee for Investing in Educational Excellence. Created by former Superintendent Manhas in 2008, to issue a report about reform recommendations for SPS.

CSIP - Continuous School Improvement Plan, the plan for improvement for each school as required by state law.

EOC - End of Course Assessments, given in math and science, required for high school graduationESEA - Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the federal law that governs education, includes the NCLB accountability provisions.

e-STEM or e-STEAM - STEM or STEAM curriculum with an environmental focus.

FACMAC - Facilities and Capacity Management Advisory Committee. A district committee comprises of an all-volunteer citizen group created in 2012 to help bring research and ideas to capacity management issues in the district.

FERPA - Family Education Rights and Privacy Act. A federal law that protects students' privacy

FRL - Free and reduced lunch.

FTE - Full Time Equivalent

FY - Fiscal Year

Highly Capable Services - NEW name (as of 2014) as umbrella name for these programs: Highly Capable Cohort (formerly APP), Spectrum and ALO (Advanced Learning Opportunities).

HSPE - High School Proficiency Exam, state assessment that replaced the WASL for 10th graders, required for graduation

HQT - Highly Qualified Teacher, a standard set by federal law

IA - Instructional Assistant

IB - International Baccalaureate program. An international program of advanced classes that can either be taken as stand alone or as part of an overall IB program.

IDEA - Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The federal law that governs special education

MAP - Measures of Academic Progress. A computer-based adaptive assessment made by NWEA and originally purchased by the district for use as a district-wide formative assessment but now used for a wide variety of purposes.

MSP - Measurement of Student Progress, the state proficiency assessment that replaced the WASL for students in grades 1-8

MTSS - Multi-Tiered Systems of Support

NCLB - No Child Left Behind, a provision of the federal education law, ESEA, introduced during the George W. Bush administration