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2. Your Social Media Presence

3. hello! I AM BOBBIE CAVNAR North Carolina Teacher of the Year
You can find me at: BobbieCavnar.com
@BobbieCavnar

4. How Teachers Get in Trouble
Let’s look some of the more famous cases.

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6. She was denied her teaching degree
Stacey Snyder was 22 at the time of the photo and was completing her student teaching.
According to court records this was just one in a long list of unprofessional and inappropriate behavior.
Plaintiff was “overly familiar,” with students and “evidenced some aspects of poor judgment during the Semester, especially in regard to one specific instance.”
Snyder also wrote about her cooperating teacher in a negative way on her page.
Snyder sued, but a federal court found no First Amendment violation. Applying thePickering case, the court ruled that her MySpace postings dealt only with purely personal matters, not issues of public concern.
Washington Post. December 3, 2008.

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8. Forced to resign These Pictures were on a completely private account.
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Judge ruled that because she voluntarily resigned, she had no right to due process.
Forced to resign
These Pictures were on a completely private account.

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In Pickering v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court held that it’s not a First Amendment violation to dismiss teachers for what they say or write, if their speech involves merely personal things.
You are a public figure and a state employee and as such do not have the same 1st amendment rights as all citizens.
Pickering involved a Township High School teacher who was dismissed after writing a letter to a local newspaper which criticised how the Township Board of Education and the district superintendent had handled past proposals to raise new revenue for the schools. The claim that his writing the letter was protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments was rejected by the Board of Education. He appealed the Board's action to the Circuit Court of Will County and then to theSupreme Court of Illinois, which both affirmed his dismissal. The Supreme Court of the United States agreed the teacher's First Amendment right to free speech were violated and reversed the decision of the Illinois Supreme Court.

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12. How do we stay out of trouble?
Here are practical tips for your new public position.

13. Your presence is valuable to your community
Don’t just hide
Your presence is valuable to your community

14. You are a role model, and may be their only role model
Professional Life
Your Public Image
Personal
Life
You are not a robot. You do not live at the school, and that is OK to show them
You may be the only positive adult in that child’s life.
You should be actively engaged in the promotion and protection of public education

15. Every District has its own social media policies and guidelines.
Know the POLICY
Every District has its own social media policies and guidelines.

16. Some deliberately restrictive, Others incredibly freeing.
Gaston
“Employees shall not Post any material that brings discredit to or which could impair the effective delivery of public service.”
Guilford
“The importance of teachers, students and parents engaging, collaborating, learning and sharing in these digital environments is a part of 21st century learning. “

17. If you do not create and control your image, others will
Control your brand
If you do not create and control your image, others will

18. Three steps to your new image
Purge
Rename personal accounts
Purge professional connections
Re-Brand
Create professional accounts
consistent and easy to find
Protect
Protect your brand
Don’t let them think you are not home
Rename = Do not use your real last name
Purge = Most of the teachers we saw were turned in by fellow faculty
New Accounts = (You may not use facebook, but your parents, teachers and administrators do)
Consistent = You are creating a brand. Make it consistent so that it is easy to find.
Protect = watch for cross-over or people posting on your brand
Do not just leave it stagnant, or they will keep looking for you.

19. I had to re-brand recently too Let’s judge my case.

20. thanks! ANY QUESTIONS? You can find me at: BobbieCavnar.com