Preventative law: developing risk and crisis management programs -- The school and the legal environment -- Constitutional and statutory foundations of staff selection, contracting, and evaluation -- Teachers' rights -- Students' rights -- Student discipline -- The principal's role in special education services -- Academic issues and students records -- Copyright law -- Search and seizure -- Program management -- Students' use of technology and social media and other emerging cyber issues -- Sexual harassment -- State-created danger and deliberate indifference -- The principal's tort liability for negligence as applied to expected duty and standards of care.