Measuring the Impact: Evaluating Cybersecurity Effectiveness Using the New Cybersecurity Rubric for Education Based on National Standards Cybersecurity attacks on schools are increasing alarmingly, putting schools under immense pressure to protect student data and ensure learning isn't interrupted. Existing cybersecurity standards are complex, costly, and not designed for Education. Recognizing this challenge, a team of innovative education organizations and K-12 leaders formed the Cybersecurity Coalition for Education and developed tools for school system leaders. Using the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), learn about the new cybersecurity tools available for Education to measure cybersecurity effectiveness! Discover details about the rubric designed to measure cybersecurity effectiveness in school systems by gauging cybersecurity practice maturity levels against the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. Then, uncover how to use the results from the assessment to lay out a strategy for improvement. Hear about the cybersecurity evaluator certification program and free innovative training resources. This workshop will provide school leaders with immediate support by taking the first step toward a more secure school environment. Your journey to a more cyber-secure school system begins here! Attendees will implement their cyber-investigation skills by closely examining each cybersecurity domain-category maturity level rating and supporting evidence using the new framework. Just like measuring academic performance improvement using an A-F grading system, this systematic method of continuous improvement for cybersecurity safety is a surefire way school systems will improve! Be prepared to embark on this journey as you leave this session with a complete understanding of how to measure K-12 cybersecurity effectiveness using the new cybersecurity education framework and rubric explicitly designed for education. Key takeaways include the culmination of the Cybersecurity Coalition’s work for the past two years. Access the Certified Cybersecurity Rubric Evaluator (CCRE) program to start obtaining your certification today! Learn how to use the cybersecurity rubric to conduct a self-assessment. Utilize the NIST-informed education-focused cybersecurity evaluation rubric and evaluate practices based on a maturity level using a scale of 1-5: Initial, Repeatable, Defined, Managed, or Optimized. Assign maturity levels for cybersecurity practices based on the supporting evidence. Develop a cybersecurity evaluation report based on evaluation findings.

Career Technical Education continues to evolve as the world changes. Join us for an inspiring and informative journey as we explore the strategies, insights, and innovations essential to a successful CTE program in today’s educational climate. The summit will include current topics such as AI in the CTE Classroom and Building Robust Student Organizations as well as a panel discussion with business and industry partners to build opportunities and connections.

AI In the CTE Classroom --presented by Diane Marsh
Discover how AI in the CTE classroom can bridge the gap between the classroom and the workforce. This session will discuss innovative tools and techniques that enhance the learning experience and prepare students for the rapidly evolving job market. AI in CTE education represents a powerful fusion of technology and pedagogy, offering numerous benefits to both students and educators.

The Crucial Link Between CTE Programs and Student Leadership Development --presented by Keith Peck

• Explore the essential ink between Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs and student leadership development in this engaging session.
• Gain valuable insights into strategies that empower students to realize their full potential through meaningful leadership opportunities.

Searching for more resources and support for bringing computing to elementary students in your school? Let's do it together! In this session, we'll explore how to best leverage the free resources, workshops, and community provided by the Computer Science Teachers Association. Educators share what types of support are available at the local and national level, and how to use them to improve the experiences of teachers and their students. We'll also share some tips and tricks that we learned along the way.

The future of learning involves a fusion of digital and physical experiences that foster student agency and personalization. In this highly interactive session, participants will engage in a design process to analyze one model’s approach toward this goal. Presenters will share their current strategies for implementing multimodal experiences grounded in personalization, acceleration, connection, and empowerment (PACE) as a means for cultivating agency. Attendees will participate in live conversations with stakeholders, review current systems, and engage in ideation protocols to generate new ideas, innovations, and solutions while also making connections to their contexts and the future of learning.

According to the Office of Educational Technology, “many educators are actively exploring AI tools as they are newly released to the public. Educators see opportunities to use AI-powered capabilities like speech recognition to increase the support available to students with disabilities, multilingual learners, and others who could benefit from greater adaptivity and personalization in digital tools for learning. They are exploring how AI can enable writing or improving lessons, as well as their process for finding, choosing, and adapting material for use in their lessons.” With all the possibilities provided by AI, there are also concerns, including ethical concerns with data privacy, navigating bias of information, resource limitations, and equity issues. Some school districts have banned chat bots while they begin to explore the answers to many questions and how AI will impact students and educators. Join us for a discussion on a range of questions with respect to AI: How can we empower students with AI?  Should a district guide the use of AI and what tools will need to be developed?  Will learning and teaching be forever changed with AI and how are we preparing educators? Can AI be used to improve school safety? What help do districts need to explore and utilize AI effectively?

This hands-on photography workshop is aimed at giving you the skills, lessons and resources to spark inspiration in your classroom and help your students find their signature style. We will use industry standard software like Adobe Photoshop and mobile apps to create a series of designs.

For years we've struggled as Digital Learning coaches to shift teachers thinking away from seeing us as tech support to recognizing our value as Instructional Coaches with a flair for technology. Last year we spent the year diving into Jim Knight's Impact Cycle and we developed a Digital Learning Playbook to help us be more intentional about how we go about coaching teachers to integrate technology and narrow our focus. In this session, we will share the steps we took to develop a comprehensive Playbook and what we learned along the way.

As technology transforms the educational landscape, AI powered tools can be harnessed to help elevate educators and make learning more personal for students. In this workshop, attendees will get hands-on with Google for Education’s latest AI-powered tools, like practice sets, screencast, YouTube interactive video questions and more!

Embark on an introductory journey to Minecraft Education! This enlightening presentation takes a comprehensive look at utilizing Minecraft in the classroom, culminating in an extensive discussion on strategies for teaching coding skills. Gain valuable insights through real-life examples, content connections, and standards integration of block-based coding. Explore design challenges aligned with curricular goals and discover the motivating potential of gamification. Whether you're a coding enthusiast or new to Minecraft, join us to witness the transformative power of coding challenges with Minecraft Education. This lecture-based session provides essential insights into the rationale behind incorporating Minecraft in education, serving as a compelling resource for educators eager to grasp the principles and benefits of integrating coding challenges.

Join this session to deep dive into the tips, tricks, and tools of Canva for Education. Participants will also walk away with ways Canva can foster a community of real-time collaboration among your students. If you love Canva and want to take your designs to the next level, this session is for you!

Schools in the Pacific Northwest serve a number of Indigenous groups that represent vast cultures in our area. Eddie and Rachel Flores work closely with the tribes in their community to build relationships and provide opportunities for their indigenous students to thrive. This session will focus on why traditional school models may not be working for all students and how teachers can work towards strengthening relationships with indigenous families in order to provide a more welcoming learning experience for those students. We will also discuss how we use technology such as LCD boards for students that may not have paper or prefer not using paper, and Parent Square to bridge communication gaps for families that use phones more than email. We also created a Google classroom for one of our reservations to use for students to continue learning in the summer. All of these steps have helped to create a more positive environment for students.

At first glance, ChatGPT, a generative AI tool, may seem like another lifeless, inconsequential cheat code to life's boring moments, but in reality, it can spread misinformation and ludicrous concepts and become a threatening weapon against humankind without proper supervision and control. "ChaosGPT," an autonomousGPT, is a dangerous AI that seems to be growing a human-like consciousness. If this AI is able to replace humans' jobs, then it could be a potential risk to society. ChatGPT has pushed far beyond writing a summative essay that would be impossible to trace. It's now embedded itself in the workforce and could even be the culprit in forming a job description for a position someone applied to. This panel will include audience discussion and covers topics ranging from in the classroom to the office, and provides a variety of tools and resources targeted to assist your students in high school and beyond to allow for valuable assets to a local and global community.

Games and game design can help build critical skills like collaboration, systems thinking, creative problem solving, and design thinking. This workshop will introduce educators to the Games for Change game design curriculum, with tools and strategies to teach students how to design analog and digital games for social change. Participants will walk away with a roadmap for building STEAM learning experiences that empower students as designers and agents of change.

Join instructional designer Dr. John Pauls as he takes you down the yellow brick road towards an A.I. enhanced classroom. This immersive experience will encourage participants to act as the protagonists in an A.I. infused storytelling adventure designed to foster discussion and dialogue on the rise and impact of artificial intelligence.

Do you want to bring relevant learning to your community through a new style of engagement? Learn to customize Minecraft Education worlds to better connect to the community around you. From in-game challenges that align to regional needs to showcasing local wonders, Minecraft Education can change the way people think about learning and how this world-wide sensation of a game fits into Educational Technology and academics.

This session is designed for educators looking to seamlessly integrate Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Communication, and Creativity with innovative technology tools in their instructional design. Participants will explore and discuss high-impact strategies that promote active student engagement and contribution. As we whisk through the content, educators will discover how to concoct the perfect blend of the 4 Cs with technology, creating a smoothie of student engagement that is both nutritious and delicious for the mind. With a balanced mix of theory, collaboration, and practice, participants will leave with a blender full of practical insights and tools to immediately enhance and energize their student engagement.

The Modern Classrooms Project approach involves three “pillars” which include Student Self-Pacing, Mastery-Based Grading, and Blended Learning. Learn about this approach by engaging in it yourselves (station rotation and blended learning are our methods!). Hear from our ongoing cohort of teachers who are implementing MCP in classrooms across the state and explore ways that you can start learning this approach and implementing it right now! Takeaways include free resources and information on how to get started with these ideas in your own classroom.

I was a Generative AI naysayer when it first rose in prominence. I thought it was going to keep kids from learning. The more I learn, the more that changes, especially in thinking about how it can empower teachers to reach learners in more ways than ever before and open doors to allow learners to demonstrate their understanding in a variety of ways. This session will allow you time to play with tools and ideas for how AI and UDL can work hand-in-hand to become a teacher superpower.

Want to share the mission of NCCE, your passion for learning and educational technology all year? This session will introduce you to the NCCE regional leader program for 2024-25. Understand the benefits and how we can work together to grow others in your region.

Gen Z is finding new ways to tell stories online... or are they? This session will situate TikTok within the larger historical context of storytelling and suggest ways to harness it in the classroom. Short Form Video + Storytelling = Sticky Learning!

As technology transforms the educational landscape, AI powered tools can be harnessed to help elevate educators and make learning more personal for students. In this workshop, attendees will get hands-on with Google for Education’s latest AI-powered tools, like practice sets, screencast, YouTube interactive video questions and more!

Teaching your students to code has never been more engaging than with ‘Coding in Minecraft’ by Prodigy Learning. In this session you will get hands-on with this immersive curriculum and credential pathway which immerses students in Minecraft: Education Edition to learn all about coding. Come see for yourself how ‘Coding in Minecraft’ creates a student-led, highly engaging learning experience where the teacher becomes the facilitator, and the students lead their own learning to learn how to code in Blocks, JavaScript or Python and validate their skills by gaining credentials along the way!

Get ready to discover how innovative schools are reimagining whole-student development in a post Covid-19 world. Attendees will learn actionable strategies to build a systemic approach to modern life skills that also addresses one of the biggest influences on students: social media. Learn how evidence-based, developmentally- relevant lessons – co-created with 50,000 students – are turnkey for teachers and pass the student “snicker-test”. In this keynote presentation, The Social Institute will share strategies that fuel students’ health, happiness, and success.

Join our panel of 3-5 school district representatives with facilitators from AES to discuss topics including new eRate rules, Cybersecurity Pilot program, Leveraging eRate dollars with other funding sources, and the importance of WiFI on school buses, plus possible funding source via. eRate.

As teacher librarians, finding the right digital tools and apps to use within the library and classroom is one of the keys to our success as we work with students and teachers. As we discover and test digital tools and apps that support the curriculum and empower our students as creators, we illustrate in unique and engaging ways our expertise, and so much more – including our awareness of what students have learned and are passionate about. In this presentation, join Shannon McClintock Miller as she shares her box of essential tools for curriculum-focused teacher librarians. Shannon will share details about each tool and app, diving into examples she has used with her preschool to Grade 12 students. You will leave with a tool box, ideas, templates for projects and more!

In this session, participants will experience We the POP!le. This project incorporates History/Social Studies, Funko POP!s, and augmented reality to have students research, write, design, and create an immersive historical product that also showcases the diverse people who have contributed to our country's incredible history.

What if there were just one website you could use for all of your lesson planning that holds a variety of resources, tools AND is easy to use? Sound too good to be true? Think again! The PBS LearningMedia site is a powerful FREE tool for teachers who are interested in using video, online games, primary sources and self-paced digital lessons with their students. If you are a teacher in a K-12 classroom, a librarian, a technology specialist or an administrator there is something for you on PBS Learning Media. The real power comes when PBS LearningMedia is paired with your favorite digital assessment and presentation tools to create engaging and fun activities for students of all ages and abilities. Join us in the lab and get ready to launch the power of PBS in your classroom!

Want to bring game based learning to your classroom? You may know more than you think. Learn about features of good game design, and how they are similar to good instructional design. Explore how games increase motivation, persistence, and engagement, and how to leverage these impacts to increase learning.

In today's fast-paced work environment, it's essential to have the right tools to maximize productivity. That's why we're excited to offer this workshop on the power of Autocrat, a powerful mail merge and bulk print application that can save you time and effort.

As technology transforms the educational landscape, AI powered tools can be harnessed to help elevate educators and make learning more personal for students. In this workshop, attendees will get hands-on with Google for Education’s latest AI-powered tools, like practice sets, screencast, YouTube interactive video questions and more!

Learn to design Virtual Field Experiences (VFEs) that bring the world into classrooms to extend digital literacies and expand global and intercultural learning. This session will include multiple examples of teacher-designed VFEs that address intercultural awareness, and language learning while expanding immersive views of the global and digital world. Learn how teachers encourage their students to design VFEs across the curriculum.

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, students are constantly bombarded with distractions, making it crucial for educators to understand the impact of multitasking (switch-tasking) on developing minds. Dive deep into neuroscience as we unravel the mysteries of competing focus and its detrimental effects on the brain. This course goes beyond theory to equip you with practical, classroom-ready practices that foster single-tasking, enhance concentration, and cultivate meaningful learning experiences.

This hands-on Nailed IT! experience will have you re-creating presentation "masterpieces." Projects might not turn out great, but you will laugh, create and grow! There will not be a $10,000 prize, but there will be new ways for your learners to create engaging presentations showcasing their knowledge.

Learn how middle and high school students engage with multimodal digital tools to create stories about themselves and the issues in their communities that they care about. By learning to critically produce these digital stories, students become better consumers of others' stories as well, and build their digital literacy skills in multiple areas. Examples will be shared and include photo essay projects, short documentaries, PSAs, global partnership projects and more.

This workshop aims to help educators seamlessly infuse computer science concepts into existing lessons—no matter how much previous experience they have with CS or AI. This lively session will be a humorous, interactive, hands-on adventure, designed for teachers of all subjects. Participants are encouraged to bring their favorite lesson plans, which we will collaboratively adapt in real-time to include elements of CS using freely available online tools without diluting core learning objectives. By the end of the session, teachers will walk away fully equipped to begin integrating CS into their classroom.

We all know that students need to learn how to think critically about the media messages that are coming at them from every direction, as well as how to navigate the digital environment in safe and empowering ways. But when is this supposed to happen in an already busy school day? Hear how this question is being addressed at the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction Media Literacy & Digital Citizenship Program. Has anyone figured out which magic wand to wave to make it all work out perfectly? Sadly, no. But there are resources you can use on the journey towards integrating crucial skills into the curriculum that will make a huge difference for your students.

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Affinity sessions are exclusive communities that bring together like-minded individuals with common interests or identities. These sessions provide a unique space for meaningful open discussions to connect and collaborate. Attending an affinity session means joining a supportive community where you can engage with peers who understand your perspective, share insights, and foster valuable connections beyond the conference. We invite you to stop in and connect with other educators to network and learn from each other.

Affinity sessions are exclusive communities that bring together like-minded individuals with common interests or identities. These sessions provide a unique space for meaningful open discussions to connect and collaborate. Attending an affinity session means joining a supportive community where you can engage with peers who understand your perspective, share insights, and foster valuable connections beyond the conference. We invite you to stop in and connect with other educators to network and learn from each other.

Affinity sessions are exclusive communities that bring together like-minded individuals with common interests or identities. These sessions provide a unique space for meaningful open discussions to connect and collaborate. Attending an affinity session means joining a supportive community where you can engage with peers who understand your perspective, share insights, and foster valuable connections beyond the conference. We invite you to stop in and connect with other educators to network and learn from each other.

Affinity sessions are exclusive communities that bring together like-minded individuals with common interests or identities. These sessions provide a unique space for meaningful open discussions to connect and collaborate. Attending an affinity session means joining a supportive community where you can engage with peers who understand your perspective, share insights, and foster valuable connections beyond the conference. We invite you to stop in and connect with other educators to network and learn from each other.

Affinity sessions are exclusive communities that bring together like-minded individuals with common interests or identities. These sessions provide a unique space for meaningful open discussions to connect and collaborate. Attending an affinity session means joining a supportive community where you can engage with peers who understand your perspective, share insights, and foster valuable connections beyond the conference. We invite you to stop in and connect with other educators to network and learn from each other.

Affinity sessions are exclusive communities that bring together like-minded individuals with common interests or identities. These sessions provide a unique space for meaningful open discussions to connect and collaborate. Attending an affinity session means joining a supportive community where you can engage with peers who understand your perspective, share insights, and foster valuable connections beyond the conference. We invite you to stop in and connect with other educators to network and learn from each other.