9/22 – Back to School: Legal Workshop with Jim Walsh
September 22, 2010
For Regions 4 and 6 - The Grand Palace conference and events center in Spring, TX
Jim Walsh, managing editor of Texas School Administrators' Legal Digest, is one of the founding members of Walsh, Anderson, Brown, Gallegos & Green, P.C., which represents many school districts and other educational entities in Texas and New Mexico. He is a sought after speaker at educator conferences nationally and authors the LAW DAWG and Law Dawg - unleashed! columns in the Legal Digest and Texas School Business, respectively.
A 1975 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, Walsh is the co-author of The Educator's Guide to Texas School Law and the author of This Just In..., a monthly newsletter on special education. He has taught school law at Baylor University and Texas State University and has conducted in-service training sessions at every Education Service Center in the state and for hundreds of school districts.
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Join us the following day for the TASSP Fall Summit — 21st Century Student Discipline: Legal Issues, Pratical Tools. Come hear the “Law Dawg” and the “Discipline Dude” as they guide you through the legal and educational rights of students before they are assigned to a discipline alternative educational program.
- Agenda
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9:00 to 10:15:
THE YEAR IN REVIEW
What Can We Learn from the Cases?
An overview of the most important cases decided by the courts and T.E.A. in the past 12 months
10:15 to 10:30:
BREAK
10:30 to 11:45:
PERSONNEL ISSUES IN DEPTH
Free Speech In the 21st Century:
Teacher Blogs and Websites
How to Handle a Grievance
11:45 to 1:15:
LUNCH
1:15 to 2:30:
SPECIAL EDUCATION IN DEPTH
Making the ARD Meeting Work for You
RTI and the Referral Process
2:30 to 2:45:
BREAK
2:45 to 4:00:
STUDENT ISSUES IN DEPTH
Free Speech in the 21st Century:
Cell Phones, Blogs, Facebook, and All That
Bullying and What You Can Do About It
As usual, the presentation will be lively, upbeat and interactive, allowing plenty of time for Q and A. You will come away with specific to-do lists and tools to help you avoid legal problems in the upcoming year.
Register for this conference:
| Early Registration by 08/25/10 | Regular Registration after 08/25/10 | ||||||
| Member | Non-Member | Member | Non-Member | ||||
| Online | Offline | Online | Offline | Online | Offline | Online | Offline |
| $105 | $125 | $105 | $125 | $125 | $145 | $125 | $145 |
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