Nebraska Administrative Code
Topic - EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF
Title 92 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Chapter 10 - REGULATIONS AND PROCEDURES FOR THE ACCREDITATION OF SCHOOLS
Section 92-10-002 - Definitions
Current through March 20, 2024
As used in this Chapter:
002.01 AQuESTT (Accountability for a Quality Education System Today and Tomorrow)
means a system designed to measure the performance of public schools and districts and establish performance classifications through a framework that describes quality and accountability. The framework addresses two broad categories of quality education systems: 1.) Student Success and Access to include the following tenets: Positive Partnerships, Relationships and Student Success: Transitions: and Educational Opportunities and Access; and 2.) Teaching and Learning, to include the lb Ho wins tenets: College and Career Ready; Assessment: and Educator Effectiveness, as outlined in Appendix G.
002.02 AQuESTT Tenet
means statements used in this Chapter to describe conditions which contribute to quality education systems for public schools and school districts. AOuESTT tenets are not requirements of this Chapter.
002.03 Board
means the State Board of Education.
002.04 Commissioner
means the State Commissioner of Education.
002.05 Core Curriculum
means a curriculum which includes language arts, social studies, science, mathematics, career and technical education, world language, visual and performing arts, and personal health and physical fitness and which, in public schools, incorporates multicultural education in all areas.
002.06 Course
means a particular subject, subject area, or defined sequence of learning experiences scheduled during the school day with a certificated teacher assigned and with one or more students enrolled and in attendance.
002.07 Department
means the State Department of Education, which is comprised of the Board and the Commissioner.
002.08 Elementary Grades
means those grades designated by the school system as elementary, but not to include any above grade eight.
002.09 Governing Body
means the school board or board of education of a public school district, a board elected or appointed to provide direction to a nonpublic school or a nonpublic school system, or an individual or corporate owner.
002.10 High School Grades
means grades 9 through 12 in a school system organized with a four-year high school and grades 10 through 12 in a school system organized with a three-year high school. School systems organized with a three-year high school may include the ninth grade in determining compliance with this Chapter.
002.11 Integrated Course or Curriculum
that is organized by concepts, themes, or ideas and includes content from two or more subjects or fields.
002.12 Instructional Unit
means 15 clock hours (900 minutes) of classroom instruction in a course offered in the secondary school. As an example, a course which meets for 50 minutes a day for 180 days generates 10 instructional units. Instructional units are computed to the nearest one-tenth.
002.13 Learning Community
means a political subdivision which shares the territory of member school districts and is governed by a learning community coordinating council established pursuant to Section 79-2102 R.R.S.
002.14 Middle Grades
Middle Grades means grade(s) designated by the school system as middle and may include any grades from four through nine. The middle grades typically include at least grades seven and eight. Common middle grade configurations are grades six through eight or grades seven through nine.
002.15 National Assessment Instrument
National Assessment Instrument means a nationally norm-referenced test developed and scored by a national testing service.
002.16 Performance Level Classifications
Performance Level Classifications means categories of public schools and school districts established by the Board based upon public school and school district performance as indicated by graduation rates, by student growth and student improvement on state assessment instruments as provided in Section 79-760.03 R.R.S. and by status and participation in statewide assessment. Additional indicators of public school and district performance based on AQuESTT tenets will be specified by the Commissioner and adopted by the Board in future revisions of this Chapter.
002.17 Priority School
Priority School means a public school selected from the lowest performance level classification and designated as being one of three schools in greatest need of assistance to improve student achievement as provided in this Chapter.
002.18 Quality Indicators
Quality Indicators means statements used in this Chapter to describe conditions which contribute to high performance learning. These statements express the intent of the regulations which follow. Quality Indicators are not requirements of this Chapter.
002.19 School
School means an individual attendance center within a school system which provides either elementary, middle, secondary and/or high school education.
002.20 School District
School District means the territory under the jurisdiction of a single public school board as authorized in Chapter 79 of the Revised Statutes of Nebraska.
002.21 School System
School System means a public school district or a nonpublic school or group of nonpublic schools under a governing body organized to provide education in elementary, middle, secondary, and/or high school grades as provided in this Chapter.
002.22 Secondary Grades
Secondary Grades means those grades designated by the school system as secondary, but not to include any below grade seven.
002.23 Statewide Assessment
Statewide Assessment means the process of measuring student achievement and progress on state-adopted standards. This definition applies to the statewide system of assessment and reporting for the school year 2009-10 and beyond for reading, 2010-11 and beyond for mathematics, and 2011-12 and beyond for science.
002.24 State Assessment Instrument
State Assessment Instrument means a test aligned with state standards that is designed to measure student progress and achievement. This definition applies to the statewide system of assessment and reporting for the school year 2009-10 and beyond for reading, 2010-11 and beyond for mathematics, and 2011-12 and beyond for science.
002.25 Teach
Teach as defined in Section 79-101 R.R.S., means and includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities: The organization and management of the classroom or the physical area in which the learning experiences of pupils take place; the assessment and diagnosis of the individual educational needs of the pupils; the planning, selection, organizing, prescribing, and directing of the learning experiences of pupils; the planning of teaching strategies and the selection of available materials and equipment to be used; the evaluation and reporting of student progress.
