Elect AI Virtual Workshop Series

"The AI workshops you've been looking for are finally here. These are the solutions for AI most coveted by educators in 2025. If you are a division leader looking to schedule high-quality professional learning for your Election Day PD, we have your solution!

The Elect AI Virtual Workshop Series is unlike any other with the quality content and premier facilitators you seek - all available On Demand."

Threat Assessments and the IDEA: A Legal Playbook for Protecting FAPE and School Safety Webinar

"The intersection of student safety and special education law is one of the most complex and sensitive areas facing administrators today. Join school attorney Anne Mickey, Esq., as she uses real-world legal dilemmas to conduct an in-depth analysis of the compliance errors that can occur when threat assessment procedures collide with special education law. This webinar will provide special education leaders with important legal insights that should be considered when determining how to proceed in a manner that protects both the school community and a student’s rights under the IDEA, Section 504, and other disability-rights laws."

VATLL 2026 Annual Conference 

Dec 1-3, 2026

Pre-Conference - Dec 1, 2026

Annual Conference Dec 2-3, 2026

Location: Williamsburg Lodge, Williamsburg, VA, 310 S. England Street, Williamsburg, VA 23185

Date and time: Mon, Apr 13, 2026 1:00 PM - Thu, Dec 3, 2026 1:00 PM

Lead IDEA and CEEDAR Release Principal Navigator Focused on Special Educator Retention

"This resource is designed to support school principals looking for practical solutions to address the persistent and deep-rooted challenge of hiring and retaining special educators. The resource includes school story examples and a toolkit with short-, medium-, and long-term solutions, resources, practical examples and IDEA considerations."  

TOPIC CHOICES:

1.  Who's Responsible - Role Ambiguity

2.  Mine and Yours - Feeling Isolated

3.  Invisible Experts - Untapped Expertise

4.  Slow Burn - Overloaded and Overextended

5.  Feeling at Odds - Differing Expectations - School and Home

6.  Sink or Swim - Feeling Unsupported

"This framework provides a structured and actionable approach for PreK-20 education to adopt AI tools to enhance instructional practices, protect student rights, and empower educators, ensuring technology serves as a tool for human betterment. 

This framework may also be applied in institutions of higher education, post secondary preparation, apprentice, and career preparation as they envision the knowledge and skills required to support the future of education."

Responsibility Centered Discipline

"Responsibility-Centered Discipline (RCD) has helped educators across North America transform student discipline and improve school climate over the past decade. Not only have RCD schools seen significant decreases in office referrals, detentions and suspensions, they have also moved away from an obedience-based classroom discipline model to a model that is centered on students taking responsibility for their own behavior as well as their own academic success."

Classroom Management for Belonging

In this podcast

"Educator and author Sheldon Eakins offers advice on shifting the balance from compliance and behavioral management to culture building and community in classrooms."

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