Prepare to Lead Fair and Defensible Title IX Outcomes
Hone your decision-making skills for the Title IX process by selecting the path that best fits your setting: higher education or K-12. Build on this foundation with training in live hearings and appeals management. Participants will learn to serve as decision-makers, panel members, or appeal officers by learning to recognize and overcome bias, interpret evidence, apply policy, and write clear, well-reasoned decisions. Develop the tools to lead fair, defensible hearings and appeals processes that align with ATIXA’s best practices and regulatory standards.
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.
Register for your selected sessions and choose the Pay Later/Create Invoice option at checkout, then contact events@atixa.org to apply this discount to your order prior to submitting payment.
Higher Education and K-12 Decision-Making and Appeals Focus Week Options in 2026
Higher Education and K-12 Decision-Making and Appeals Focus Week Offerings: (Attend one, multiple, or all courses!)
- Title IX Decision-Making for Higher Education
- Title IX Decision-Making for K-12 Education
- Live Hearings for Higher Education
- Managing Appeals Seminar
What’s a Focus Week?
Designed as an a la carte event, each individual 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.
Faculty Coming Soon
Title IX Decision-Making for Higher Education
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 view Registration Rates.
Faculty Coming Soon
Title IX Decision-Making for K-12 Education
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.
Click here to view Registration Rates.
Faculty Coming Soon
Live Hearings for Higher Education
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 (2020 Regulations) 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 view Registration Rates.
Managing Appeals Seminar
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.
Click here to view Registration Rates.
Title IX Decision-Making for Higher Education
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 view Registration Rates.
Live Hearings for Higher Education
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 (2020 Regulations) 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 view Registration Rates.
Title IX Decision-Making for K-12 Education
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.
Click here to view Registration Rates.
Managing Appeals Seminar
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.
Click here to view Registration Rates.
Frequently Asked Questions
There are scholarships available for the Title VI Compliance Winter Focus Week. Scholarship applications can be submitted on a rolling basis up to the opening date of the event. If your application is approved, you will be notified within 2 weeks after your application has been submitted.
To apply, click here.
ATIXA Member Rates
- One-day Higher Education Courses
- Early Bird – $798.00
- Regular – $891.00
- Last Chance – $976.00
- Two-day Higher Education Courses
- Early Bird – $1,503.00
- Regular – $1,678.00
- Last Chance – $1,843.00
- One-day K-12 Courses
- Early Bird – $424.00
- Regular – $470.00
- Last Chance – $517.00
- Workshop
- Early Bird – $424.00
- Regular – $470.00
- Last Chance – $517.00
- Seminar
- Early Bird – $279.00
- Regular – $313.00
- Last Chance – $339.00
ATIXA Non-Member Rates
- One-day Higher Education Courses
- Early Bird – $939.00
- Regular – $1,049.00
- Last Chance – $1,149.00
- Two-day Higher Education Courses
- Early Bird – $1,769.00
- Regular – $1,975.00
- Last Chance – $2,169.00
- One-day K-12 Courses
- Early Bird – $499.00
- Regular – $554.00
- Last Chance – $609.00
- Workshop
- Early Bird – $499.00
- Regular – $554.00
- Last Chance – $609.00
- Seminar
- Early Bird- $329.00
- Regular – $369.00
- Last Chance – $399.00
Early Bird pricing is available until 10 weeks before the course start date. Regular pricing ends 2 weeks prior to the start date of the event. 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
Register for your selected sessions and choose the Pay Later/Create Invoice option at checkout, then contact events@atixa.org to apply this discount to your order prior to submitting payment.
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.