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How to Be a Great Witness: Pro Tips for Testifying at a Due Process Hearing

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How to Be a Great Witness: Pro Tips for Testifying at a Due Process Hearing

Presenter:

Session 
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Erin D. Gilsbach, Esq. 

90 Minutes

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$25.00

$500.00

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Group Rate (50+)

$20000.00

Program Information:

In a special education due process hearing, school witnesses include teachers, administrators, counselors, school psychologists, service providers, and more. But did you know that independent hearing officers have the authority and obligation to determine the credibility of each witness and that the success of the case depends heavily upon that credibility finding? In this session, attorney Erin D. Gilsbach uses her nearly 20 years of experience practicing special education law to provide helpful information about what witnesses can do to enhance their testimony through simple but nuanced techniques regarding body language, eye contact, and communication skills, formal document review, and hearing preparation. She also provides examples of credibility determinations from real special education cases to show what impresses hearing officers and what may lead to a determination that a witness is not credible on the stand. This session is a must for all special educators and special education administrators.

About the Presenter:

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     Erin D. Gilsbach, Esq., a practicing school law attorney and Executive Director of EdLaw Interactive, is an experienced speaker and writer at the state and national levels on current trends and important issues regarding school law and education.  She is also a highly-skilled professional development expert who provides school law training in live and web-based formats to educators and school leaders nationally and throughout her home state of Pennsylvania.  In addition to working with schools, Atty. Gilsbach devotes a great deal of time to working with other school law attorneys, providing continuing legal education (CLE) trainings for school law attorneys on new and emerging legal issues in the field of education law. â€‹

     Atty. Gilsbach has extensive experience working with schools and providing proactive professional development programs for school attorneys and school leaders on legally-defensible practices.  She has provided legal representation and/or professional development to over 150 public, private, and charter schools.  Atty. Gilsbach is Past-President of the PA School Boards Association (PSBA) Solicitor’s Association and a member of the Board of Directors of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) Council of School Attorneys.  She is also a frequent writer and presenter with PSBA, NSBA, NSBA’s Council of School Attorneys (COSA), and the National Business Institute (NBI).  She was voted a Rising Star Attorney by her peers in Superlawyers and Philadelphia magazines for five consecutive years and was selected as 2018’s Distinguished Speaker by the Missouri Council of Administrators of Special Education.

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