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both deter and address the use of inflammatory
speech and behaviors. April

Building Trust and Protecting
Employee Rights Webinar
Mar. 19, 2020; 9 am - 3 pm Pandemic Response: Meeting the
Presenters: David Nash, Esq., LEGAL ONE Needs of Special Education Students
Director; Rebecca Gold, Retired Director of Apr. 1, 2020; 2 pm - 3:15 pm
Human Resources; Paula Clark, Esq, Director
of Human Resources, Compliance, and Labor Presenters: David Nash, Esq., LEGAL ONE
Relations, Wayne Township Public Schools Director; Barbara Gantwerk, FEA Coordinator
Fee: $150 of Special Projects; John Worthington, Esq.,
LEGAL ONE Consultant
This day will provide a deeper dive into the Fee: Free
process of building trust with district employees
and ensuring that employee rights are clearly This webinar will review legal and best practice
understood and protected. Best practices for considerations regarding the provision of
communicating with employees, bargaining special education and related services to
units and their representatives will be reviewed. students with disabilities during the statewide
The often misunderstood details of complex law school closure due to COVID-19. Participants
related to family leave, workers compensation, will learn about recent guidance from the
employment discrimination, employer duties U.S. Department of Education and the New
in responding to staff members with real or Jersey Department of Education. Issues to
suspected disabilities, employee certification be considered will include the application of
requirements, and more will also be reviewed. FAPE to remote instruction, conducting initial
evaluations and reevaluations, holding IEP
meetings, addressing discrimination claims,
Implicit Bias, Equity, effectively delivering instruction and related
Investigations, and the Law services, and the factors to consider when
students return to school related to the possible
Mar. 31, 2020; 9 am - 3 pm at FEA need for compensatory services.
Presenters: David Nash, Esq., LEGAL ONE
Director; Rebecca Gold, Retired Director of
Human Resources; Joanne Sung, Assistant Webinar
Superintendent, North Plainfield School Pandemic Response: Addressing HIB
District; Cynthia Assini, K-12 Supervisor
of Social Studies/Gifted and Talented, and Discrimination Claims
Hillsborough Township Public Schools Apr. 2, 2020; 2 pm - 3:15 pm
Fee: $150 Presenter: David Nash, Esq., LEGAL ONE
Whether we realize it or not, each of us has our Director
own implicit biases. As affirmative action officer, Fee: Free
it is essential that you understand the implicit This webinar will review key legal and best
biases that you and your colleagues may have, practice considerations related to conducting
that you lead your district's work to overcome investigations of alleged HIB and discrimination
those biases and that you work to ensure that claims, writing required reports and putting in
those biases do not interfere with student, staff, place appropriate consequences and remedial
or parental rights. In this session, participants will measures during the current statewide school
learn to identify implicit biases and recognize closure. Issues to be addressed include:
the impact they may have on all aspects of a • the timeline for conducting HIB
school district's operations. Participants will investigations that began prior to or
apply this knowledge to implementing the subsequent to school closures,
Comprehensive Equity Plan and conducting fair
and just investigations. Participants will also learn • strategies for conducting virtual
advanced investigation techniques that promote investigations where necessary,
fair, equitable, effective, and legally defensible • responding to new cyberbullying issues
outcomes. Participants will also learn about that arise,
best practices related to enhancing cultural • addressing student confidentiality,
competency and celebrating student diversity. • involving law enforcement where necessary,
• imposing appropriate consequences and
remedial measures,
• protecting staff member Weingarten
Rights, and
• addressing potential discrimination claims
that may arise related directly to COVID-19,
such as the stigmatization of students
coming from certain countries our regions
of the world.

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