Student Privacy Training for Educators

About the Student Privacy & Pandemics Series

Recognizing the urgent need for professional development training resources for educators, we created a series of short videos, slide decks, and interactive activities on the most pressing topics schools face as they prepare to reopen in the fall. We understand that plans and considerations for returning to school continue to evolve, so we will be updating the series with trainings on new topics regularly. If you plan to use these trainings, we recommend linking to the Training Homepage or to our YouTube playlist to access the most up-to-date version of the series.

Let us know how we can improve this series here, and visit our webpage with more resources for educators here.

You can watch the full playlist below, or jump to any of the sections below to access its video, slides, and activity.

Student Privacy 101: Defining Privacy
Student Privacy 101: Student Data
Student Privacy 101: Legal Compliance, Privacy & Security Risks, and Transparency & Trust
Student Privacy 101: Why Protect Student Data?
Student Privacy 101: Understanding and Reducing Risk
Student Privacy 101: How to Protect Student Data
Student Privacy 101: Contextual Privacy
Vulnerable Students: Students Experiencing Homelessness
Student Privacy 101: What Are Your School’s Policies?
Adopting EdTech: FERPA and COPPA
Adopting EdTech: Privacy Vetting
Data Security: Improving Your Cyberhygiene
Special Topics: Monitoring Students
Special Topics: Student Surveys
Teaching Privacy to Your Students
Teaching Security to Your Students
Communicating with Parents: Your Privacy Partners
Advocating for Privacy
Privacy & Pandemics: Measuring Student Engagement and Performance Online
Privacy & Pandemics: Video Classrooms
Privacy & Pandemics: Checking-In on Student Social-Emotional Wellbeing
Privacy & Pandemics: Helping Students Protect Their Privacy During Online Learning
Privacy & Pandemics: Private Conversations with Students

All resources are provided under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Contact us if you would like to a copy of any of the videos or slide files in Powerpoint for your website or learning management system.

Watch our full playlist of training videos:

Student Privacy 101: Defining Privacy

This short training explores the meaning of privacy and why privacy is important.

Student Privacy 101: Student Data

Through videos created by the Data Quality Campaign, this section explores what student data is, why it is important, and identifies who collects student data and when.

Student Privacy 101: Legal Compliance, Privacy & Security Risks, and Transparency & Trust

This short training provides an animated overview of student privacy.

Student Privacy 101: Why Protect Student Data?

This training explores provides an overview of potential risks to student privacy and why student information needs to be protected.

Student Privacy 101: Understanding and Reducing Risk

This training discusses how to evaluate the benefits and risks of different scenarios and implement strategies to reduce risk to student privacy.

Student Privacy 101: How to Protect Student Data

This short training walks through best practices for how to protect student data.

Student Privacy 101: Contextual Privacy

This short training introduces contextual privacy and how educators can protect the privacy of students with unique privacy needs.

Vulnerable Students: Students Experiencing Homelessness

In this module, Patricia Julianelle, Senior Strategist for Program Advancement and Legal Affairs at SchoolHouse Connection discusses unique privacy concerns of students experiencing homelessness and best practices and legal obligations for protecting the privacy of students who are experiencing homelessness.

Student Privacy 101: What Are Your School’s Policies?

This short training explores the importance of local policies that protect student privacy and when they should be consulted.

Adopting EdTech: FERPA and COPPA

This short training explores how federal student privacy laws FERPA and COPPA apply to edtech adoption.

Adopting EdTech: Privacy Vetting

This short training explores the student privacy responsibilities of educators when adopting edtech platforms, products, and services, including requirements under federal student privacy laws FERPA and COPPA.

Data Security: Improving Your Cyberhygiene

This short training provides a number of practical tips, strategies, and best practices you can take to improve your data security and safety.

Special Topics: Monitoring Students

This short training discusses best practices for monitoring students, and what the consequences could be if not approached with privacy best practices in mind.

Special Topics: Student Surveys

This short training discusses administering student surveys including legal requirements when it comes to consent and best practices.

Teaching Privacy to Your Students

This short training includes why students need to learn about privacy, key topics to cover, and provides linked lesson plans, activities, and other resources that educators can adapt for their classroom.

Teaching Security to Your Students

This short training includes why students need to learn about cybersecurity, key topics to cover, and provides linked lesson plans, activities, and other resources that educators can adapt for their classroom.

Communicating with Parents: Your Privacy Partners

This short training discusses how to build trust and transparency with parents through communication and details how to communicate the benefits of using student data to help students succeed.

Advocating for Privacy

This short training provides guidance for how you can advocate for a culture of privacy at your school.

Privacy & Pandemics: Measuring Student Engagement and Performance Online

This short training explores how some of the privacy implications of collecting and using data about student engagement and performance online as part of remote learning, and provides best practices.

Privacy & Pandemics: Video Classrooms

This short training explores how FERPA applies to remote learning via online video, whether classes can be recorded, and how to best protect student privacy while using video for remote learning.

Privacy & Pandemics: Checking-In on Student Social-Emotional Wellbeing

This short training discusses how to approach student’s social-emotional wellbeing as they return to school this fall including applicable laws and best practices when administering a mental health screener.

Privacy & Pandemics: Helping Students Protect Their Privacy During Online Learning

This short training discusses what to teach students so they can better protect their privacy during distance learning.

Privacy & Pandemics: Private Conversations with Students

This short training discusses how teachers should approach and avoid obstacles in having private conversations with students during online learning.

Additional Trainings

Already gone through all our existing videos and want more? Here are more student privacy trainings and resources from various organizations.