Title IX Decision-Making for K-12 Education

Achieve Sound, Defensible, Unbiased Decision-Making in Your School or District

Using a case study fact pattern only offered in this ATIXA training, this course helps K-12 practitioners serving in decision-making roles to understand the scope of their position, apply policies with analytical precision, and check biases to ensure that determinations in Title IX complaints are reliably based on evidence, and will stand up to appeal and review by the courts.

ATIXA’s expert faculty members teach decision-making skills that are sound, supportable, and more difficult to challenge in court by closely tracking policy, correctly applying the standard of proof, following fair procedures, producing cogent rationales, and perceptively assessing credibility.

This course is particularly beneficial for investigators also serving as decision-makers, single or panel decision-makers, appeal decision-makers, and administrators who oversee them. Additionally, this course supports individuals acting as decision-makers in expulsion hearings.

Topics Covered

• Decision-Making Mission/Role
• Bias, Conflicts of Interest, and Recusal
• Due Process and Parties’ Rights
• Review of Policy Definitions
• Overview of the “Title IX Process”
• Understanding Evidence and Admissibility
• Making a Determination
• Recordkeeping and Documentation
• Considerations for Student Expulsions that Intersect with Title IX
• How to Assess Credibility Accurately and Explain Your Credibility Assessment in Writing
• Considerations for Employee Sanctioning that Intersects with Title IX

Key Takeaway

Understand relevant questions and admissible evidence by substantively exploring policy applications on sexual harassment and assault, domestic and dating violence, and stalking under the Title IX grievance procedure.