>> CB> Are you allowed to put student's work in your resume' document?
 >>     I see _major_ legal problems in doing that!
 DR> Is it illegal to carry a work portfolio of children's work and of parent
 DR> letters, to an interview? I have a notebook in which I keep copies of
 DR> children's work, photos of children at work in the classroom, letters
 DR> and comments from classroom parents, as well as the originals of all of
 DR> my reference letters. I wouldn't want to do this if it were illegal.
Hi Donna,
I've checked with district folks in the know.
The opinion given is:
If you remove the students' names & the work is not identifiable it's
okay.
If the work carries the students' names, the grade should not be
displayed on it, unless you have a parental release.
A good example of this is student art.  Here in Phoenix, elementary
schoolchildren's artwork is often publically displayed at shopping malls
or in public offices (such as banks) along with such information as the
students' names, grade level, teacher's name, & school.  This is often
done for art contests, too.  Even if the child received a grade for the
work as well as using as a contest submission, it's all right to display
the work as long as there is no grade on it.
The district person told me that an employer most likely would NOT be
interested in seeing your students' work, but instead would like to see
the work that you developed for your students.  After all, YOU'RE the
one they're hiring, not the student! ;^)
FERPA is mostly concerned with the release of sensitive records such as
transcripts; it does not forbid the public admiring Johnny's 3rd Grade
rendition of a house, nor does it mean that Johnny's name can't be
mentioned in public.
BTW, you know, I wouldn't expect my gynecologist to be a brilliant
plastic surgeon any more than I would expect a collections lawyer to be
an expert on ed law.  But that's just me.
Leona Payne
... "Good thing it wasn't a Double Jeopardy question." -- Mulder
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