SOPPA - the Student Online Personal Protection Act - goes into effect July 1, 2021. Join us as we learn more about the law and tools that can help schools remain in compliance with it from LTC Executive Director Tim McIlvain and LTC Director of Technology Services Chris Wherley.  

Mentioned in this episode: 

• Consortium for School Networking, or CoSN 


• Protecting Student Data Privacy, by Linnette Attai 


• NDPA: National Data Privacy Agreement 


• ISPA: Illinois Student Privacy Alliance 


• SDPC: Student Data Privacy Consortium 


• ISPA Database: Visit ltcillinois.org, click Services, and choose Illinois Student Privacy Alliance (ISPA/SDPC) 


• How to Use the ISPA Database (YouTube playlist) 


• All Things SOPPA (YouTube playlist) 


• Sign up for future All Things SOPPA webinars 


• Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) Overview of SOPPA 


• Policy Services from the Illinois Association of School Boards 


• PRESS - Policy Reference Education Subscription Service 

 Note: Neither the Learning Through Leading Podcast nor its hosts receive any compensation for mentioning products or services during this interview at the time of recording.

Disclosure: Matt Jacobson is employed by the Learning Technology Center of Illinois.

Contact Info: 

• Learning Technology Center of Illinois 


• Twitter: @LTCillinois,  


• Web: ltcillinois.org 


• Tim McIlvain on Twitter 


• Chris Wherley on Twitter 

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