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Module 1004

Student Search & Seizure Guidelines: What's Legal and What's Not

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Tuition: $225 complete

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What You'll Learn

Fourth Amendment rights in schools and student search and seizure continues to be difficult and confusing for educators. Issues regarding police involvement, strip searches, pat downs, backpacks, and technology-based searches are tricky and often get schools, administrators and teachers in trouble. This module will give you a complete understanding of the most-current legal rulings to help you stay in compliance and out of court. In this module you're learn:

  • 4 ways to determine if a student search is appropriate
  • How to abide by constitutional constraints and avoid costly litigation
  • How to navigate the "grey areas" not covered in case law
  • The most common mistakes schools are making — and how to avoid them
  • Reasonable suspicion, equal protection, and other key definitions & concepts

Highlights

Search and Seizure in Schools: What's Legal and What's Not

  • If and when students can consent to waive their rights
  • Where students have a reasonable expectation of privacy
  • How the legal interaction between schools & law enforcement operates

Clarifying Fourth Amendment Rights in Schools

  • Managing & investigating student behavior under the Fourth Amendment
  • Reasonableness standard: Determining lawful & unlawful seizure
  • Administrative searches: Dos and don'ts to ensure compliance

Legal Update: New Cases that Are Impacting Schools

  • Pat Down searches of students - what's legal?
  • Metal detector and other technology-based searches
  • Backpack, canine, strip searches and more: it's all addressed in this module

The Virtual Teachers Lounge™

Check in with your peers and get answers to your questions – any time, 24/7. Taking this course will give you exclusive access to the thoughts, insights and experience of other educators and K-12 experts discussing your topics and giving you solutions and ideas for whatever is on your mind. In the Teachers' lounge, you can:

  • Learn new, working strategies and solutions from other educators – live!
  • Get answers to your toughest questions from top K-12 experts
  • Discuss course topics with your peers and benefit from their experiences
  • Share your success stories and best practices to benefit other teachers and administrators
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Materials & Assessment

Lectures Your lectures, delivered by one of the nation's leading, recognized experts on this topic, are presented in multiple parts to make listening and tracking your progress easier. You can listen to each as often as you like by playing it on your computer, downloading it to your iPod or other MP3 player, even burning it to CD. Listen wherever it is most convenient for you: at home, in your car; at the park; and whenever you like: before or after work, at night or on weekends. Many educators can complete a module in only a week.
Text Resources Virtual text resources are downloadable and expand on the material covered in your lectures. They may include articles, web links to related materials and web sites, definitions of important terms and concepts, and a bibliography. All materials can be viewed on your computer or downloaded and printed.
Assessment If you are taking this course for a Certificate of Completion, you do not need to complete the assessments and need only submit final projects. If you want to receive 3 Professional Development credits or 90 Professional Development hours, you must complete all the assessments and final projects.
Virtual Teachers Lounge To gain Professional Development credits or hours for any of these three modules, you must participate in the Virtual teachers Lounge discussion for that module. If you are not seeking credits or hours, participation in the Lounge is not mandatory, but you are still welcome to connect with and share your thoughts, questions, insights and experience with your peers at any time.
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Student Search & Seizure Guidelines: What's Legal and What's Not

Tuition: $225
Contact us for our quantity discount policy at questions@americancenterforeducators.org