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Principals avoiding lawsuits : how teachers can be partners in practicing preventive law / David Schimmel, Suzanne Eckes, and Matthew Militello.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schimmel, David.
- Standardized Title:
- Principals teaching the law
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tort liability of school districts--United States.
- Tort liability of school districts.
- Preventive law--United States.
- Preventive law.
- School principals--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- School principals.
- Educational law and legislation--United States.
- Educational law and legislation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (150 pages) : illustrations, tables
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2017.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
- Summary:
- This book gives principals the tools they need to avoid lawsuits by teaching their staff the information they need to practice preventive law.Lawsuits often begin when teachers unintentionally violate students' rights such as searching a student's cell phone without reasonable suspicion or failing to follow a student's Individualized Education Program. These violations do not occur because teachers intend to break the law. They occurred because the vast majority of teachers are not required to learn about the rights and responsibilities of students and teachers in their teacher preparation programs. As a result, most teachers get their legal information from the "law school" of the teachers' lounge--that is, from colleagues who are similarly uninformed and misinformed. Instead, what teachers want and need is an in-service program that will provide them with a basic understanding of school law. But most busy principals don't have the time, knowledge and resources to provide such a program for their staff.This book will meet this critical, unmet need. It provides principals with the resources and lesson plans they need to incorporate school law into their professional development program. As a result, their teachers will get their information about school law from a reliable source - not from the rumors, fears and myths of the teachers' lounge. By empowering their teachers with legal knowledge, principals and teachers will avoid lawsuits by becoming partners in the practice of preventive law.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Liability for student injuries: protecting your teachers, your students, and your school
- Student freedom of expression
- Special education
- Discipline: student due process and search and seizure
- Student harassment and bullying
- Teacher freedom of expression
- Teacher out-of-school conduct
- Religion
- Student records: the family educational rights and privacy act
- Abuse and neglect.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Machine-generated record.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-40143-8
- 979-88-8187-759-0
- 1-4758-3119-6
- OCLC:
- 1531064739
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