STAFF & BOARD TRAINING
Stay Up-To-Date on Essential Information
Petrarca, Gleason, Boyle & Izzo, LLC offers virtual and in-person presentations, in-service trainings, and other unique opportunities such as legal update emails (Priority Briefings) and our weekly Breakfast Bites to learn from and dialogue with our attorneys about a variety of school law issues, both new and recurrent. Topics can range on a wide variety of subjects pertaining to general school law and special education law and are designed to provide joint agreement clients, school districts, school board members, school administrators, and school staff with essential and up-to-date information and to answer questions about these issues.
Priority Briefings
Our Priority Briefings are here to give you updates on important Education legislation so you have the time you need to prepare for success and not get caught off guard.
Be sure to also subscribe to our Priority Briefing emails to get notified when a new Priority Briefing is released.
Administrator Academies
Our Administrator Academies have been approved by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) for participant credit.
Contact Us to schedule an Administrator Academy or Click Below for a list of ISBE-approved Administrator Academies.
Legal Breakfasts
Our Legal Breakfasts are designed to provide school board members, administrators, and staff with essential and up-to-date information on new developments in the law and to address matters that are top of mind.
We host our legal breakfasts on multiple dates and at convenient locations for our current and prospective clients.
Click Here for a list of upcoming legal breakfast dates and past legal breakfast presentations.
Staff In-Services
Petrarca, Gleason, Boyle & Izzo, LLC offers virtual and in-person presentations and in-service training for board members, administrators, and staff on a wide variety of subjects pertaining to general school law and special education law.
See Below for a small sampling of presentation / in-service training topics that we offer. Contact Us to schedule a presentation or to inquire about a topic that is not listed below.
School Board Member Training
Section 10-16a of the School Code (105 ILCS 5/10-16a) establishes training requirements for school board members. The law requires that the training be conducted by “an association established under Article 23 of the School Boards (IASB) or entities that the State Board approves in consultation with IASB.” We are approved by the Illinois State Board of Education to provide such training.
Similarly, all current Illinois charter school board members, and any board members in their first year of service must complete a minimum of four hours of professional development leadership training, and an additional two hours in every subsequent year of their term. We approved to provide this training as well.
See Below for a list of topics covered in our training or Contact Us to schedule a training.
