Data Privacy Survey
Assuring that school districts are equipped to deal with the multiple, ever-changing, challenges involved in protecting data privacy, while also following legal requirements and community expectations is a high priority for CoSN. In order to ensure that the CoSN resources are current when it comes to assuring data privacy, CoSN is inviting school leaders to participate in the recently released CoSN Student Data Privacy: Understanding the National Landscape Survey.

The survey is created to learn what data privacy supports are available to school districts to build and maintain their data privacy processes and what additional supports would be helpful along with identifying the barriers that school districts face in securing data privacy. The information gathered through the survey responses will be used to produce an updated report on school districts’ data privacy needs. CoSN also plans to provide new and relevant resources to assist school leaders in meeting the data privacy needs of their districts, based on the information gathered through the data privacy survey. 

Survey participants do not need to identify themselves nor their school districts when completing the survey. You are invited to access the Data Privacy Survey and share your insights to shape future tools and resources. Take the Survey Here.

Trusted Learning Environment (TLE) Seal
The CoSN Trusted Learning Environment (TLE) Seal program is a proven way for school system leaders to build effective privacy policies and programs in an atmosphere of trust and transparency. There are five main categories included when earning  the Trusted Learning Environment Seal:
          1. Leadership Practice
          2. Business Practice
          3. Data Security Practice
          4. Professional Development Practice
          5. Classroom Practice
School districts now have two options for earning the TLE Seal. A district may elect to complete all five categories in one ongoing process to earn the full TLE Seal. Or a new option that CoSN now offers to school districts is the opportunity to earn individual “mini” TLE Seals for each of the five separate practices listed above. To learn more about the TLE Seal options for school districts, please visit:
https://www.cosn.org/trusted-learning-environment/

CoSN Membership: If you, your school or district would like more information about joining CoSN or getting more involved with CoSN, please contact membership@cosn.org.