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What is a site? or What is a building?
Name for an elementary, middle, or high school
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What is an associate's degree?
Awarded after two year's of study.
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What is a one-to-one program?
Each student is given a technology device for use in classroom and sometimes at home.
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What is accreditation?
Process by which a state or federal government determines an institution meets minimum level of quality
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What is Professional Development?
This term refers to training, conferences, and workshops that help teachers and admins build their knowledge and skill
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What is distance learning?
Modern technology to allow interaction between instructor and student outside of a traditional classroom
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What is Common Core State Standards?
Math and English Language Arts standards and methods of teaching that some states of adopted
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What is an LMS (or Learning Management System)?
Software used to manage electronic materials and curriculum.
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What is ELL?
This acronym is used to describe students whose native language is not English.
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What is a University vs. a Private Sector Education institution?
One is a four-year institution usually run by a state and the other is usually a trade, vocational, or 2-year college that makes a profit.
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