Presenter:
Session
Length:
Erin D. Gilsbach, Esq.
90 Minutes
Cost:
Single On-Demand Viewer
Group Rate (Up to 25)
Group Rate (26-50)
$25.00
$500.00
$1000.00
Group Rate (50+)
$20000.00
Program Information:
Public schools often hire independently-licensed individuals to perform functions within the school, such as licensed nurses, psychologists, social workers, etc. The confidentiality rules related to those state-issued licenses typically include only one exception related to imminent threats to the patient/client's health, safety and/or welfare. What happens with a child reveals information to a professionally-licensed school employee that does not rise to the level of a health/safety/welfare threat but that implicated a school's child find obligations or other IDEA obligations? Public school confidentiality laws, including FERPA, are designed to permit disclosure to school employees with a "legitimate educational interest" and do not restrict disclosure to only situations in which there is a health/safety/welfare threat. This more relaced standard enables schools to fulfill their child find and other obligations under Section 504 and the IDEA. IDEA and section 504 violations con have significant liability consequences for a school and educational consequences for the employee, including permanent loss of licensure. How do professionally-licensed individuals comply with the obligations of their licensure without violating the school's legal obligations under the IDEA and Section 504? What do school administrators need to know/do to address the issue of potential conflicts between the potentially-conflicting confidentiality requitements of independently licensed employees and their obligations as school's employees pursuant to the IDEA and Section 504? This session provides answers to these important questions.
About the Presenter:
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.
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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