About
In this interactive webinar, participants will be able to interact live via ongoing chat with our host, nationally-recognized school law attorney Erin D. Gilsbach, Esq., as she discusses some of critical legal considerations involved with educating students during the current COVID-19 crisis. She will address such issues as: school closures, event and activity cancellations, fund reimbursements, special education law and the provision of FAPE during quarantine, legal issues regarding online and distance learning options, and more!

Participants are encouraged to submit questions in advance on our website. To do so, go to: CORONAVIRUS & K-12 SCHOOLS: ONLINE DISCUSSION FORUM (www.edlawinteractive.com/forum). The discussion and topics discussed in the forum will guide our selection of topics during the live webinar.
When
Wednesday, March 18, 2020 · 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (US & Canada) (GMT -4:00)
Presenter
1708355-1540997497
Erin Gilsbach
Executive Director
Erin D. Gilsbach, Esq., is the Executive Director of EdLaw Interactive, which specializes in legal training for educators and school administrators. An experienced speaker both nationally and in her home state of Pennsylvania, Erin currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) Council of School Attorneys and is Past-President of the PSBA Solicitors Association. She provides legal consulting and training services to schools, education-related organizations in the areas of special education; development of legally-defensible policies and procedures; trending legal issues regarding technology and education; nursing and school health services; truancy prevention; child abuse prevention and mandated reporting; educator evaluation and discipline; and many other school law topics.

​Voted by her peers as a "Rising Star Attorney" for 5 consecutive years, Erin began her career as a public high school English teacher, and she served for several years at the PA Department of Education’s Office of Chief Counsel. She was selected as the Missouri Council of Administrators of Special Education's (CASE) "2018 Distinguished Speaker." In 2017, she served as the legal consultant for the desk reference "Legal Issues in School Health Services,” and she is the author of a handbook on health-related special education issues for LRP Publications, which is scheduled for publication in the spring of 2019.