- AG-ED – Agriculture Education
- AATA – AZ Agriculture Teachers Association
- ABEA – AZ Business Education Association
- ACOVA – An Association of CTE Administrators
- ACT – American College Testing
- ACTE – Association for Career and Technical Education
- ACTEAZ – Association for Career and Technical Education of Arizona
- ADDA – American Design Drafting Association
- ADE – Arizona Department of Education
- ADM- Average Daily Membership
- AEPA – Arizona Educators Proficiency Assessment
- AIMS – Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards
- AME – Arizona Marketing Educators
- AMP- Arizona Manufacturing Partnership
- AOAC – Arizona Occupational Administrators Council
- APS – Arizona Public Service
- ASAP- Arizona State Parliamentarians
- ASCA – Arizona School Counselors Association
- ASU – Arizona State University
- ATIEA – AZ Technology and Industrial Education Association
- AWS – American Welding Society
- AzAFCS – Arizona Association of Family and Consumer Sciences
- AzCIS – Arizona Career Information System
- AzCRN – Arizona Career Resource Network
- AzHCEA– Arizona Health Career Education Association
- AzMerit- Arizona’s Measurement of Educational Readiness to Inform Teaching
- BMAS – Business Management Administrative Services
- CAD – Computer Aided Drafting
- CAR- Consolidated Annual Report
- CAVIAT – Coconino Association for Vocation Industry and Technology
- CAVIT – Central Arizona Valley Institute of Technology
- CIP – Classification of Instructional Programs (6-digit code identifies CTE program)
- CMT- Communication Media Technologies
- CTD – Cochise Technology District
- CTDS – County/Type/District/School Code (9-digit code)
- CTE – Career and Technical Education
- CTSO – Career Technical Student Organization
- CVIT – Cobre Valley Institute of Technology District
- DCE – Diversified Cooperative Education
- DECA – An Association of Marketing Students
- DO- Director of Operations
- EP- Education Professions
- Educators Rising Arizona (Formerly FEA – Future Educator’s Association)
- ESEA- Elementary and Secondary Education Act
- EVIT – East Valley Institute of Technology
- FACS Ed – Family and Consumer Sciences Education Association
- FBLA – Future Business Leaders of America
- FCS – Family and Consumer Sciences
- FCCLA – Family, Career & Community Leaders of America
- FFA – Future Farmers of America
- FY- Fiscal Year
- GC – Graphics Design and Commercial Art
- GIFT – Gila Institute For Technology
- GME- Grants Management Enterprise
- GPS- Grants Program Specialist
- HASS- High Academic Standards for Students
- HCE – Health and Community Service Careers
- HOSA – Health Occupations Students of America
- ICTEP – Individualized Career & Technical Education Plan
- ITE – Industrial Technology Education
- IVEP – Individualized Vocational Educational Plan
- JTED – Joint Technical Education District
- LEA – Local Education Agency
- MI – Mountain Institute
- MIJTED- Mountain Institute Joint Technical Education District
- MME – Marketing, Management, and Entrepreneurship
- MMT – Marketing, Media, and Technology
- NATPL – National Association Tech Prep Leadership
- NATEF – National Automotive Technicians Educational Foundation
- NATIVE – Northeast Arizona Technological Institute of Vocational Education
- NAVIT – Northern Arizona Vocational Institute of Technology
- NCCER – National Center for Construction Education and Research
- NCCTE – National Center for Career Technical Education
- NOCTI – National Occupational Competency Testing Institute
- NOI – Notification of Intent
- NPS – National Policy Seminar
- OCR – Office of Civil Rights
- OSHA – Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- OVAE – Office of Vocational and Adult Education
- PCJTED – Pima County Joint Technical Education District
- PD- Professional Development
- PLTW – Project Lead the Way
- POS- Program of Study
- RPOS- Rigorous Program of Study
- SAIS – Student Accountability Information System
- SALP- State Adjusted Level of Performance
- SAT – Scholastic Aptitude Test
- SENSE – Schools Excelling through National Skills Standards Education
- SkillsUSA – A National Students Organization
- T.E.M. – Science Technology Engineering and Math
- STEDY- Southwest Technical Education District of Yuma
- SY- School Year
- VACTE – Valley Academy for Career & Technology Education
- WACA – Western Apprenticeship Coordinators Association
- WAVE – Western Arizona Vocational Education
- West-MEC – Western Maricopa Educational Center
- WIA – Workforce Investment Act
- WIOA- Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
