Professional Development Winter 2015 ACCEP T P ROFESSIONAL DEVEL OPMENT

Professional
Development
Winter 2015
220 North Main Street
Suite 201
Natick, MA 01760
508.653.6776
Fax 508.653.0878
ACCEPT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
DATE / TIME / LOCATION
January 27, 2015
Legal Traps
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
and Pitfalls:
The Hampton Inn
319 Speen Street, Natick, MA
What Every Educator
Needs to Know
Earn 5.5 participation hours
WORKSHOP PRESENTER
WORKSHOP FEES
All Attendees ....... $100
MichaelJ.Joyce
Nutall and MacAvoy, P.C.
The fee includes coffee, lunch and handouts .
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Knowledge is foundational to good
decision making. This presentation, offered by attorney Michael Joyce of
Nuttall & MacAvoy, P.C., will focus on procedural and pragmatic advice to
help practitioners avoid, and defend against, special education litigation.
The presentation will focus on both the procedural and substantive
obligations under the IDEA, M.G.L. c. 71B and the special education
regulations at 603 C.M.R. 28.00, with a particular focus on meeting those
requirements in the context of applied behavior analysis. The presentation
will incorporate recent case law and hearing decisions relevant to applied
behavior analysis to provide the most up-to-date information from both
federal and state legal decisions.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
General and Special Education Teachers, Inclusion Specialists, Team
Chairs, Principals and Special Education Administrators
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Michael J. Joyce is a former public school teacher and currently an attorney with
Nuttall, & MacAvoy, P.C. specializing in general education and special-education
law in public schools. He has served as a civil rights attorney for the United States
Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR); a prosecuting attorney in
the Gang Unit of the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office; and a law clerk to
the Justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court. Mr. Joyce graduated from
Boston College Law School and holds a Master in Educational Administration from
the Lynch School of Education at Boston College, where he teaches a graduatelevel course on education law and policy.
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