2011 PROGRAMS

UNDER CONSTRUCTION AS OF 5/18/2011

  At this time the following programs are available.  For more information,  call Pat Holecek at (800) 543-0212.  

                    DRUGS, GUNS AND GANGS IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS

                                Law Advisory Group's premiere course,  now in its 21st year,  customized to present state law to each program's participants.  Concentration is on the authority of teachers, administrators, counselors, nurses, school staff and the law enforcement officers who work regularly with the school.     Over 100,000 people have attended these programs in addition to the more than 300 schools and school districts that have contracted to have it presented locally. 

                    RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION: BEHAVIOR  --   A TEAM APPROACH                   

This program concentrates on several important points.   The first is that every teacher needs to get to know every student in a deeper way that we now seek.    The good students get attention and the poor students get attention.  In the middle there is a vast unknown.   Several studies have shown that too many students have no idea to whom to go for help.  A national private tutor organization features this fact in its adds. 

Law Advisory Group takes this scenario to a different level and teaches administrators and police officers how to build small assessment teams that depend on simple reporting by teachers without embarassiing or overburdening the teachers due to their observations.  Then the process moves to a new level if a real threat exists.  The threat does not have to be a threat of violence --- but, sadly,  too often it is.   This approach covers the threat of failure,  of extreme psychological depression and even the threat of abuse or neglect in the home --- without recklessly interfering with parental privacy.   

This program fully complies with the standards set forth by the U.S. Dept. of Education and U.S. Dept. of Justice in the post-Columbine studies and the intitiatives of 2006-2010. 

                    SPECIAL EDUCATION AND 504 FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT

Fifty years ago the national attitude was that children who couldn't automatically keep up with the rest of the class due to a disability should be barred from school.     In 1973,  Congress passed an act today known as "504"  that inadvertently gave status to some of these children.   Then,  in 1976,  Congress adopted regulations for the 1975 version of  the Education for All Handicapped Children Act,  now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (I.D.E.A.)     Today we know and the amendments,  re-enactments and revised regulations reflect that a disability is not really disabling.   It is,  in fact,  a handicap.  It's possible for you to do your job but it's going to be more difficult.   In any case,  you will be expected to obey the law.   If you don't,  your prison sentence might be reduced for even changed to supervised life.   Law Advisory explores the police officer's role in the school's handling of these concepts.   Of more importance,  Law Advisory explains to the officer the thinking of the educator and how best to react.