Student Culture

Language
Students at "IACS" enjoy using as many acronyms and abbriviations as possible. This sometimes makes it hard to understand your typical student. To maximize your unerstanding of the IACS speak, read the deffinitions listed below.

Non- Accronyms/ Abbriviations 

A few unusuall words used at IACS that arent accronyms or abbriviations 

Rubric- Large project

C-Notes- A kind of note taking

Teams- The section of school you are in

Outcomes- The four objectives of all students (also the names of the teams)

General 

Just a few general acronyms and abbriviations 

IACS- Innovation Academy Charter School

HW- Homework

BFFL- Best Friend For Life

MS- Middle School

HS- Highschool

Pic- Picture

OK- Okay

CM- Communtiy Membership Team

PS- Problem Solving Team

SD- Self Direction Team

EC- Effective Communication Team

ILP- Indipendent Leaning Plans

QN- Quality Night

YB- Year books

Dates 

Becuase saying "day" is just too hard 

Tom- Tommorow

Mon- Moday

Tues- Tuesday

Wed- Wednesday

Thurs- Thursday

Fri- Friday

MS Grading

Because using the typical A B C D F system isnt good enough 

D- Distinguished

P- Proficient

A- Apprentice

N- Novice

W- Warning

PSM- Please See Me

Your typical conversation

Normal Person: How are you?

IACS student: OK, so much HW in MS, expecially at IACS.

Normal Person: Okay?

IACS student: Yeah, on Mon I got a D on my Rubric

Normal Person: ...

IACS student: Im on the SD team so I had QN and my ILP on Tues, I got a P on them!

Normal Person: Ummm

IACs student: Yeah IACS is so hard, I have to take C-Notes and take pics for the YB

Normal Person: *gone