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Editorial revision: October 7, 2026. External course availability and provider requirements may change.

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This pathway helps adults in the school community understand risks, strengthen boundaries, encourage student reporting, and prepare to respond to concerns involving educator sexual misconduct.

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The sequence begins with understanding how abuse can occur, builds prevention and reporting practices, and concludes with response and recovery.
 

Who This Pathway Is For

School safety and security personnel, administrators, teachers, staff, volunteers, and community partners who work with students.
 

What You Will Learn

• Recognize concerning behavior and the importance of appropriate boundaries.

• Identify practices that help students feel comfortable reporting concerns.

• Understand the importance of a prepared response and recovery process following allegations of educator sexual misconduct.

Step 1 

Stranger Danger: We Now Know Better

Examine why student protection must include recognizing concerning behavior within relationships children already trust.

Campus Integrity Group
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Step 4 

Educator Sexual Misconduct in Schools: Guidelines for Staff, Volunteers, and Community Partners

Explore appropriate and inappropriate staff behavior, response to allegations, and recovery following an incident or allegation. A provider account is required.
National Child Traumatic Stress Network
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Step 2 

Teaching Consent and Boundaries in K–12 Schools

Explore age-appropriate consent and boundaries education and the role adults play in prevention.
Campus Integrity Group
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Step 3  How to Encourage Student Reporting

Campus Integrity Group

Learn how trusted relationships and a supportive school culture help students share concerns.

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Put Your Learning Into Practice 
What can our school strengthen so students feel comfortable reporting concerns and adults know how to respond? 
Directors may use this question for a team discussion. Individual learners can note one practical action to take in their own role.
 

Apply and Review
Choose one situation relevant to your role. Discuss what you would recognize, what information is still needed, who should be involved, what action fits your responsibilities, what should be documented, and how you would review the outcome.
 

Keep Your Learning Records
Keep any completion certificates or records offered by the training providers. Team leaders may establish their own documentation and completion requirements. Application notes are for the learner or team and do not need to be submitted to NASSO. 

Completing a NASSO Compass pathway documents learning; it does not by itself demonstrate competency or establish qualification to perform a specialized function. Apply the learning within your role, training, and school or agency procedures.
 

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