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The Kansas State Department of Education’s Information Technology (IT) team has put together a team of experts to help school technology directors and staff members, along with superintendents, principals and others who are interested, navigate the complex and critical practices of cybersecurity and data privacy.
The Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Professional Development Webinar Series will begin this month. The 60-minute webinars will take place at 1 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month in January, February, March, April, May and June.
Advance registration is required for each event. Registrants will receive a confirmation email containing information for joining the webinar.
The topic of this month’s webinar at 1 p.m. Jan. 17 is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). The U.S. Department of Education, through the Student Privacy Policy Office’s Privacy Technical Assistance Center (PTAC), will conduct this introductory presentation on FERPA, which is a federal law protecting students’ privacy. Brittani Fairchild, a data privacy analyst for AEM/PTAC, will lead “FERPA 101.”
This presentation is intended as an introduction to the law and seeks to balance providing the legal background of the statute with real-world scenarios to which the law applies. Register by clicking here.
Fairchild also will lead the Feb. 21 session, “Vetting Online Educational Services.” In this presentation, she will discuss how FERPA applies in the context of education technology and provide a roadmap to understanding how to protect student privacy in the digital context. Register now by clicking here.
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Denise Kahler (785) 296-4876 dkahler@ksde.org
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