The 200 Most Frequently Asked Legal Questions for Educators, N. Essex

$29 KASA member
$32 nonmember

This resource is the ideal quick-reference guide for understanding legal issues in schools. This compact, jargon-free and easy to understand reference focuses on 200 common legal issues, providing school administrators and teachers with authoritative, legally defensible approaches for addressing school challenges. This guide provides

• A list of relevant court cases pertaining to each question and answer
• Legal references to guide teachers' and school leaders' actions
• A glossary of legal terms and a list of selected federal statutes
• Summaries and conclusions at the end of each chapter

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Avoiding Legal Hassles: What School Administrators Really Need to Know

$18 KASA member
$21 nonmember

A comprehensive quick reference that covers virtually every legal challenge faced by schools today, veteran school administrators Bill Streshly and Larry Frase have taken their classic "quick reference" and combined it with the insight and experience of a practicing school attorney for a comprehensive, up-to-date reference that covers all the basics and more, including:

• Education’s legal framework
• Making the system work for you
• Understanding the direction of the changing law
• The struggle for human rights: students, parents
• Separation of church and state
• Managing grades, tests, and student records
• School discipline
• School safety and security
• Special education
• Personnel management
• Collective bargaining

… as well as new strategies for avoiding lawsuits and a highly useful "troubleshooting guide".

Cyber Law: Maximizing Safety and Minimizing Risk in Classrooms, A. Bissonette

$18 KASA member
$21 nonmember

This timely reference is an essential overview for teachers, media specialists, and administrators covering legal issues related to Internet and technology use. Lawyer and educational policy expert Aimée M. Bissonette provides up-to-date research, jargon-free summaries of legal cases illustrating potentially risky classroom situations, and proactive strategies on:

• Privacy, security, copyright, liability, and safety
• Internet tools, social networking sites, cyberbullying, and appropriate online behavior
• The use of non-school electronics such as cell phones, handheld computers, and cameras

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Ethical Leadership in Schools: Creating Community in an Environment of Accountability

$23 KASA member
$26 nonmember

In an age of accountability and transparency, principals are held responsible for everything from test scores to school finances. Because of this increased accountability, school leaders must regularly confront difficult ethical dilemmas.

Ethical Leadership in Schools teaches principals and aspiring principals the concepts that inform ethical choices in leadership roles. Using brief vignettes, Kenneth A. Strike explores common situations that principals are likely to encounter and presents questions and issues to help them determine the ethical path. As part of the Leadership for Learning initiative of the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), this invaluable resource clearly explains complex ideas in an accessible, well-illustrated manner. To help resolve the dilemmas that challenge every school leader, this book:

• Guides readers through the process of making ethical decisions
• Bridges ethics to issues of accountability
• Provides scenarios that reflect the difficult choices facing principals
• Supplies the tools to create ethical advice in varied contexts
• Examines the central principles of fair cooperation

The study of ethics should emphasize what makes a school a good educational community. By creating communities that are competent, caring, and collegial, school leaders will be able to maximize their resources and meet the growing demands of accountability.

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Essential Concepts and School-Based Cases in Special Education Law

$31 KASA member
$34 nonmember

The ideal resource for practicing or aspiring school leaders, this comprehensive book by special education law experts explores the most difficult and contentious areas of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act and its accompanying regulations. The authors synthesize concepts from leading special education cases and provide excerpts from selected legal decisions to help educators understand and more easily navigate the most pressing issues in special education law. Readers will find assistance in examining:

• Entitlement to special education services
• Procedural due process
• Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)
• Related services, assistive technology, and transition services
• Disciplinary sanctions for students with disabilities
• Dispute resolution
• Anti-discrimination laws

This text serves as a current and concise desk reference for educators, increasing their awareness of the legal requirements related to special education and strengthening their ability to work effectively with families and students.

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How to Handle Staff Misconduct: A Practical Guide for School Principals and Supervisors

$23 KASA member
$26 nonmember

Ever-changing laws regarding sexual harassment, teacher accountability, and safety in the workplace, combined with increasingly complex union contracts, have made the handling of staff misconduct a veritable minefield for novice and experienced administrators alike. Fortunately, this expanded and updated second edition of an indispensable resource will clarify all of the steps principals must take to ensure that their schools are run according to the policies and laws that govern them.

In clearly delineated sections, How to Handle Staff Misconduct, Second Edition, offers strategies that include managing excessive tardiness, insubordination, misconduct requiring suspension, and even criminal behaviors. Each section includes an outline of principal responsibilities, and common errors that can interfere with a successful intervention. In addition, the authors demonstrate:

• How to use progressive discipline to fairly correct unwanted behaviors
• How to set up a school-level misconduct meeting
• Why just cause is a key defense against legal backlash
• How due process can avoid technical errors during a disciplinary action
• Why privacy is paramount

Covering everything from the first day of school to the first sign of an infraction, this book guides administrators through all phases of investigation and documentation, and remains an essential resource for any principal or supervisor trying to keep students and staff focused on education.

The Principal's Guide to Managing School Personnel
R. Sorenson and L. Goldsmith

$25 KASA member
$29 nonmember

Inspiring faculty and support staff to perform their best is a key factor in developing a school culture that helps students thrive. This resource provides principals with the policies, procedures and techniques to lead and manage school personnel and create an effective work environment. The book also offers reflective exercises to assist administrators in evaluating their own schools and practices. Based on ISLLC and ELCC standards for school leadership, this book covers

• Shaping school culture to promote shared owership of the school's vision
• Recruiting, selecting, and retaining qualified personnel
• Effective communication and conflict resolution
• Handling challenging situations such as supervising marginal employees and addressing grievances

The Principal's Quick-Reference Guide to School Law: Reducing Liability, Litigation, and Other Potential Legal Tangles, D. Dunklee and R. Shoop

$30 KASA member
$34 nonmember

Minimize site-based risk while respecting the legal rights of students, staff and parents. This essential desk reference offers a straighforward resource for tanslating school law into practice and can be used as a day-to-day reference guide or a comprehensive overview of school law today. This edition helps school administrators quickly find important legal guidance for issues that include

• Staff selection and evaluation
• Student rights and discipline
• Special education and the reauthorized IDEA
• Copyright law
• Search and seizure
• Sexual harrassment and sexual exploitation

Principals Teaching the Law: 10 Legal Lessons Your Teachers Must Know, D. Schimmel, S. Eckes and M. Militello

$26 KASA member
$30 nonmember

Tackling the most common legal issues facing schools today, this book equips school leaders with a professional development curriculum for effectively training staff on education law and other critical topics that affect teachers' everyday work. Organized into 10 ready-made lessons, this resource includes

• One-hour sessions on topics such as student discipline, special education, and freedom of expression
• Warm-up activities, objectives, a summary of legal principles, application activities and assessments for each session
• Facilitation aids such as common questions and answers, timing recommendations, alternative activities, reproducible content, and recommended readings
• An online supplement with key terminology, a legal knowledge survey, and lesson plans

Working with and Evaluating Difficult School Employees, J. Eller and S. Eller

$20 KASA member
$23 nonmember

Managing difficult employees is one of the most challenging aspects of a school leader's job. Written by experienced administrators, this resource provides specific techniques and strategies for identifying, working with, and evaluating marginal school employees. The resource includes

• Appropriate skills and sample dialogues for conducting difficult conversations
• Templates for putting concerns into writing and developing improvement plans
• Information about legal issues and ways to protect administrators
• Specific strategies for working with teachers, office staff, paraprofessionals, and custodial staff
• Steps to take when termination becomes necessary