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September 17-19, 2025
Decision-Making & Appeals Focus Week (Fall)

  • Date
    September 17-19, 2025
  • Location
    Virtual

Join ATIXA’s Decision-Making & Appeals Focus Week!

This exciting week of training, led by Title IX experts, is designed to enable decision-makers, hearing and appeals officers, as well as any individuals involved in the decision-making process to understand the process, responsibilities, and expectations. Each training welcomes active participation through practical learning, giving practitioners clarity when making decisions, conducting live hearings, and writing rationales. Take part in our virtual courses from anywhere and boost your skills. 

Why Choose ATIXA?

ATIXA’s expert faculty members are more than great instructors—they are also your professional peers, actively engaged in Title IX roles nationwide. Their firsthand experience with similar challenges and their adept problem-solving approaches ensure that you receive relevant, practical insights in every training.

Decision-Making & Appeals Focus Week Offerings: (Attend one, multiple, or all courses!)

  • Title IX Decision-Making for Higher Education – September 17
  • Title IX Decision-Making for K-12 Education – September 17
  • Live Hearings for Higher Education – September 18
  • Managing Appeals Seminar – September 19

Learn About Multi-Registration Discounts

Registering for multiple courses or multiple participants is a great way to save.

Register yourself or your team for two to four courses and receive a 15% discount; register for five or more and receive a 25% discount. Contact events@atixa.org to apply this discount to your order prior to submitting payment.

What’s a Focus Week?

Designed as an a la carte event, a focus week offers the flexibility to choose the courses that best suit your needs. Whether you prefer to attend a single session or multiple, each course stands alone while complementing the others to provide a well-rounded learning opportunity. This tailored approach allows participants to focus on the areas most relevant to their roles, ensuring a personalized and impactful training outcome.

Schedule

Title IX Decision-Making for Higher Education

10:00am-5:00pm ET

This course is focused on cultivating the skills and insights needed to successfully serve as a hearing officer and decision-maker for Title IX complaints. This training meets the requirements under Title IX and VAWA Section 304 to help decision-makers recognize and overcome bias and ensure equity for all parties.

For individuals serving as hearing chairs, panelists, single decision-makers, administrative hearing facilitators, and party advisors, this training will underscore decision-making skills so that decisions are sound, supportable, and less susceptible to future challenges, such as in litigation. Click here to learn more.

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Title IX Decision-Making for K-12 Education

10:00am-5:00pm ET

Using a case study fact pattern only offered in this ATIXA training, this course helps K-12 practitioners serving in decision-making roles to understand the scope of their position, apply policies with analytical precision, and check biases to ensure that determinations in Title IX complaints are reliably based on evidence, and will stand up to appeal and review by the courts.

ATIXA’s expert faculty members teach decision-making skills that are sound, supportable, and more difficult to challenge in court by closely tracking policy, correctly applying the standard of proof, following fair procedures, producing cogent rationales, and perceptively assessing credibility.

This course is particularly beneficial for investigators also serving as decision-makers, single or panel decision-makers, appeal decision-makers, and administrators who oversee them. Additionally, this course supports individuals acting as decision-makers in expulsion hearings. Click here to learn more.

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Live Hearings for Higher Education

10:00am-5:00pm ET

Live Hearings for Higher Education focuses on the skills needed to run an effective live hearing as part of the Title IX Formal Grievance Process or involving other types of civil rights complaints or misconduct. Topics include hearing preparation, pre-hearing meetings, facilitating questioning or cross-examination, and deliberation.

This training complements ATIXA’s Title IX Higher Education Decision-Maker course. It is relevant for all professionals serving as hearing chairs, panelists, single decision-makers, administrative hearing facilitators, and party advisors. For institutions offering a live hearing as part of their Formal Grievance Process, decision-makers should first enroll in the ATIXA Decision-Maker course. Click here to learn more.

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Managing Appeals Seminar

10:00am-12:00pm ET

This seminar provides participants with the philosophical and practical framework for managing appeals consistent with ATIXA’s best practices to achieve equity and compliance with federal requirements under Title IX and VAWA Section 304. ATIXA’s expert faculty members guide participants through the appeals process, how to determine whether a party has “grounds” for an appeal, and how to assess whether the federally required grounds for appeal are met. This seminar will focus on all four phases of “appeal,” including dismissal appeals, supportive measure appeals, emergency removal “appeals,” and hearing/decision appeals.

In addition, participants will learn how to compose solid rationales, apply the principles of appellate excellence (including deference, the clear error standard, and the use of remand), make determinations based on merits, communicate outcomes, and avoid common pitfalls. This seminar is appropriate for both appeal decision-makers and those who oversee the appeal process, including Title IX Coordinators. Click here to learn more.

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FAQs / Find Your Answers

There are scholarships available for the Virtual 2024 Title IX Coordinator Training in Practice Week. Scholarship applications must be submitted by October 11, 2024.

If your application is approved, you will be notified via email 2 weeks prior to your course start date. To apply, click here.

ATIXA Member Rates

  • One-day K-12 Courses
    • Early Bird – $369.00
    • Regular – $419.00
  • One-day Higher Education Courses
    • Early Bird – $699.00
    • Regular – $799.00
  • Two-day Higher Education Courses
    • Early Bird – $1,299.00
    • Regular – $1,509.00
  • Workshop
    • Early Bird – $369.00
    • Regular – $419.00
  • Seminar
    • Early Bird – $279.00
    • Regular – $313.00
    • Last Chance – $339.00

ATIXA Non-Member Rates

  • One-day Higher Education Courses
    • Early Bird – $899.00
    • Regular – $999.00
    • Last Chance – $1,099.00
  • Two-day Higher Education Courses
    • Early Bird – $1,689.00
    • Regular – $1,879.00
    • Last Chance – $2,069.00
  • Workshop
    • Early Bird – $479.00
    • Regular – $529.00
    • Last Chance – $579.00
  • Seminar
    • Early Bird – $329.00
    • Regular – $369.00
    • Last Chance – $399.00

The pricing above is effective if purchased today. Take advantage of our Early Bird Pricing to secure your spot at a reduced rate until July 9, 2025. After the Early Bird Pricing ends, our Regular Pricing takes effect and is available until September 3, 2025. Following the Regular Pricing period, Last Chance Pricing will be in effect until the start date of the event.

Multi-Course Discounted Rates:

  • 1st grouped individual – full price of registration
  • 2-4 grouped individuals – 15% discount on registrations
  • 5+ grouped individuals – 25% discount on registrations

Please create your order, click the “Pay Later” option upon checkout, and reach out to events@atixa.org for discounts to be applied.

Those attending a certification course will receive a certification for the course as well as recertifying credits (CCCs) for any current certification for a 2-year time period.

All our courses and workshops will receive a digital badge denoting completion.

Once you register, you will have access to the ATIXA Event Lobby. The lobby contains all materials for your course.

The zoom link and course slides will be accessible 3 days prior to the start of your course. Please note you have access to the ATIXA Event Lobby from the point of registration through 3-months post-course and workshop.

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