State Resources
Help districts prevent educator misconduct before it happens.
An abuse prevention program that districts across your state can adopt to meet state training and prevention education requirements. It brings together staff training, student lessons, parent education, coordinator training and the completion records your office may ask districts to produce.
Five pillars of school abuse prevention
An end-to-end prevention program that districts can align to your state’s legal requirements, with one consistent approach across schools.
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Online Courses for Staff and Volunteers
Prevention training for everyone who interacts with students. Covers recognition of warning signs, grooming, mandated reporter responsibilities, professional boundaries and practices that interrupt misconduct before it escalates.
Browse abuse prevention courses (opens in a new window) Naming coursework in an order or agreement?
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K-12 Student Safety Curriculum
Age-appropriate lessons for students ages 4 to 18. Helps children recognize unsafe situations and understand healthy boundaries. Aligned with state prevention education requirements.
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Parent Education
A program that equips parents to reinforce school-based prevention at home, strengthening the safety conversation across every adult in a child’s life.
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Safety Coordinator Online Training
Role-specific training for staff managing abuse prevention, including compliance practices, response protocols and program implementation.
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Risk Management Compliance Tools
Tracking and reporting tools that document training completion, monitor program adoption, and produce the records districts need for state monitoring, audits and board reporting.
District Planning Checklist
A step-by-step checklist your office can share with districts that are planning a state-compliant abuse prevention program.
The research
What state departments of education should know when setting prevention expectations for districts.
Recent research points the same direction: most educator sexual misconduct is never reported, and the opportunity for prevention is the trained adult who notices warning signs early.
K-12 schools were the only youth-serving setting where abuse and all four types of boundary-violating behavior were reported more often by younger adults than by older adults.
Organized sports and religious organizations showed decreases in some boundary-violating behaviors over the same period.
Assini-Meytin et al., 2025. National survey of 6,411 adults.
Only 4% of students who experienced educator sexual misconduct disclosed it to authorities.
Trained adults can recognize the signs that students do not report.
Jeglic et al., 2023. Survey of 6,632 recent high school graduates in four states.
Grooming behaviors and boundary violations often come before abuse, and they can be recognized and stopped early.
Consistent staff training and clear reporting protocols give adults the tools to act on what they notice.
Colson et al., 2025. National Blueprint on K-12 educator sexual misconduct.
Why Professional Learning Board
For over twenty years, Professional Learning Board has supported K-12 educators across the country with state-approved professional development, license renewal, and graduate credit courses through partnerships with regionally accredited universities.
Empowering Educators. Elevating Schools.
- Research-based content
- State-aligned compliance
- Established practices in risk management
- The infrastructure state departments of education already use
Sources
- Assini-Meytin, L. C., McPhail, I., Sun, Y., Mathews, B., Kaufman, K. L., & Letourneau, E. J. (2025). Child sexual abuse and boundary violating behaviors in youth serving organizations: National prevalence and distribution by organizational type. Child Maltreatment, 30(3), 499–511. https://doi.org/10.1177/10775595241290765 (opens in a new window)
- Colson, F., Grant, B.-J., Haverland, J., Jeglic, E., Krimball, E., Lipson, G., Miller, T., Shakeshaft, C., Sood, S., & Winters, G. (2025). Understanding and preventing sexual misconduct and abuse by K–12 school employees [White paper]. National Center to Stop Educator Sexual Abuse, Misconduct and Exploitation. https://www.ncsesame.org/nationalblueprintsexualmisconduct (opens in a new window)
- Jeglic, E. L., Calkins, C., Kaylor, L., Margeotes, K., Doychak, K., Blasko, B., Chesin, M., & Panza, N. (2023). The nature and scope of educator misconduct in K-12. Sexual Abuse, 35(2), 188–213. https://doi.org/10.1177/10790632221096421 (opens in a new window)
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