This is a list of the blogs in chronological order of what topics are related to what steps of the process you are involved in. For a list of all blogs listed by category, click the blog list page.
Communicating with the school. What do you need to know as you engage? Don’t sabotage your efforts. Be in the know.
What is the Ask? Email Writing for School Advocacy
5 Rules on How to be Untouchable
The Use of Delay
Defamation. You Said What?
Liability in Education
Activating the Duty to Accommodate Process. Let’s get this process started!!
What do you need to be communicating to the school about?
Let’s Talk about Hindsight
Barriers! Barriers! Barriers!
As you navigate advocating with the school, you absolutely need to be documenting EVERYTHING.
Why is Documentation so Important?
Evidence of Harm. Effective advocacy in Education
Want to avoid a human rights complaint? Know this stuff!
Liability in Education
The Damage Period
Steps in the Duty to Accommodate Process
Duty to Consult
Duty To Collaborate in Good Faith
Duty to Facilitate
What you need to know about IEP meetings.
Getting Ready for IEP Season – Legally
Individual Education Plan (IEP) – They aren’t just words on a page
Self-Advocacy and Victim Blaming
You keep on trying…. but things aren’t going well…..
When Should I File?
Wait Time for External Complaints
You have to file your complaint within one year
Late filing – Timeliness of Complaint
What to consider
Is there a Financial Risk in Filing a Human Rights Complaint?
“It depends”
What Can a Human Rights Complaint Do for my Child?
You file your complaint and it gets accepted. You will automatically get a mediation date. Some info for your settlement conversations.
Compensation Amount
Settlements
Settlement and Mediation Information
To NDA or not to NDA? That is the Question…
If your mediation meeting was not successful. You will be moving on to document disclosure stage. Now you are getting ready for a hearing.
Using AI While you Navigate the BC HRT
Does my Child need to Testify?
Keeping your Child’s Information Private
Fairness at the BC HRT
Responding to Dismissal Applications
Amending (Improving) a Complaint
If you want to take your case to a hearing, here is some good to know information
Building Advantage – Hearing Preparation
Does my Child need to Testify?
What are some other education decisions that have occurred so I can learn from them?
A HR Decision for School Employees
District Discretion-outside recommendations-denial reasonable
New TRB Decision – Physical Contact
Post-Secondary Human Rights Complaint, Settlement Offer
Co-parenting with the Government
New HR Decision…and it’s Loaded
Another new HR decision – Intersecting Identity – Self-representing parent- A win!
New HR Decision – Professional recommendations in IEP
New HR Decision – EA taken away IEP – Very informative
The Next Generation of Student Advocates
New Human Rights Complaint – Denied EA, Complaint Accepted
What is the Human Rights Tribunal’s take on Exclusion?
TRB Complaints = HRT Dismissal? NOPE!!
NEW – OIPC Decision – Coquitlam School District
ADHD, Dyslexia, Dysgraphia – Human Rights Education Case
Human Rights Decision by Self-Represented Parent – They Can’t Give Up
News Articles on Recent Human Rights Partial Win by Parent in Education
Self-represented Parent of Child’s Education Discrimination Case – Partial Win – Human Rights Tribunal
Family Status – Human Rights Complaints in Education
Daycare Termination and Disability
Human Rights – Deaf community – ASL access – Education
