Courses
Please note that we are no longer able to offer this virtual course.
VIRTUAL COURSE LOGISTICS
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This 1-day virtual workshop will identify and analyze a series of recent decisions issued by the Massachusetts Bureau of Special Education Appeals involving children with learning disabilities. In addition to learning the roadmap and pitfalls of the hearing process, participants will learn the important factual and legal distinctions that caused Hearing Officers to decide cases in favor of either districts or parents.
Upon completion, participants will be able to:
LEVEL
This course is appropriate for educators at all grade levels.
MATERIALS
Materials will be provided electronically.
Credits | |
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5 Hours | |
Dates/Time | Price |
July 21, 2023 8:30am - 3:00pm |
$175 |
Registration is unavailable at this time.
Over 98% of educators felt that their Outreach Summer Institute seminar provided them with strategies and tools that will help their students.
Dan Ahearn, M.A., J.D., practices disability, special education, education, and children’s law. He currently teaches a Children & Disability Law course at Suffolk University Law School; counsels law students in the ; and chairs the annual Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education seminar School Law Basics as well as several other seminars regarding practice before the BSEA, mock trials, and school discipline. He has previously taught in the Boston University School of Law First Year Writing Program for over ten years and also counseled law students in the Harvard Law School’s Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising for over 20 years. He has written numerous articles on special education law for MCLE books and for other journals. He works in the education field at the Landmark School. He was the past Director of the Massachusetts Bureau of Special Education Appeals and a Senior Attorney at the Disability Law Center in Boston.