Education Law

NSBA to host food allergies and schools webcast

BoardBuzz readers may know that food allergies affect a student?s total school environment: bus rides, cafeterias, classrooms, and playgrounds. So now BoardBuzz wants to know: is your school district really prepared to prevent and deal with life threatening reactions?

Whether readers are well-versed in the nuances of food allergies or this is their first introduction to the issue, BoardBuzz recommends attending Food Allergies and Schools:  Keeping Students Safe and Ready to Learn. This webcast will provide valuable information and insight to school board members, superintendents, and other administrators, as well nurses, teachers and all those who play essential roles in carrying out the policies and practices that keep all students safe and ready to learn.  In other words, all BoardBuzz readers will benefit!

The webcast will feature a comprehensive panel of presenters, such as national-level experts and legal counsel, school board members, and other critical school personnel, and parents and students.  Topics will include:

• Why you should act to address food allergies in schools;
• What parents and students with life-threatening food allergies experience and need;
• How food allergies have been successfully addressed by schools and recommendations for concrete policy and practice actions;
• Where you can find additional resources to help you get started in enacting your own plans; and
• Much more!

This multimedia program will be broadcast by ESGN Network ? the Missouri School Boards Association?s production brand.  Support for this webcast is provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Food Allergies and Schools:  Keeping Students Safe and Ready to Learn will take place on Tuesday, November 9, 2010 from 2-3:30 EST, and is free but registration is required.

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on September 20, 2010 (boomark / email).