Student Online Personal Information Protection Act or SOPIPA recently took effect in California and New Hampshire. This law was created to help fill gaps that are currently in place with attempts to protect student data. However, even though SOPIPA is in place that doesn’t mean that student data is being thoroughly protected. The first steps that I would take is first to expose teachers that there is a law. I would make this either a mandatory training. Currently, in our district there is a mandatory training that HR makes each person in the district complete. The training can be completed online at your own pace. After the training there is a short quiz to prove completion of the training.
I believe we need to be more cognizant about what it is we are sharing with all of our staff members. If we are providing PD on how to use a digital program, we must also include information on how to make sure we are safely handling student data. We no longer can hold the information solely in the hands of IT departments, but yet those that hold that info must be able to share with admin or other district personnel the importance of getting that information out to teachers and staff.
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