Bountiful Barrage of Educational Bureaucratese

I sat through a meeting with higher-ups at the DOE and was subjected to a bit of jargon. How many of these expressions have you heard?

  • alignment and synergy (noun)
  • baseline student knowledge (verb)
  • clean opportunity (noun)
  • crosswalk the standards (verb)
  • ideate (verb)
  • learning accelerators (noun)
  • level settings (verb/noun)
  • make a pitch deck (verb)
  • socialize the idea (verb)
  • thinkings (noun)
  • thought partnership (noun)
  • use case (noun)
  • wonderings (noun)

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