Ballroom A

Joe & Kristin Merrill, Featured Speaker

Description: Let’s make education more interACTIVE! Join The Merrills, authors of the book series "The InterACTIVE Class," as they show you how to discover easy and applicable ways to make teaching and learning in your classroom more engaging by creating more collaborative and creative lessons. Give an old lesson new life through gamification, project based learning or by integrating educational tools. Learn how to incorporate technology while keeping lessons efficient, focused and still standards based.

Target Audience: All

Ballroom B

Lynn Kleinmeyer, Grant Wood AEA

Description: As adults, we can use technologies to help us develop healthy habits—mindfulness, fitness tracking, weight management, and more. However, we can also develop unhealthy relationships with these same technologies to the point where we let them prevent us from being fully present. Join this conversation where we discuss our relationship with technology and discover some practical steps to help cultivate healthy habits.

Target Audience: All

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Ballroom C

Merve Lapus, Featured Speaker

Description: How can we help our students understand the effects of digital drama, cyberbullying, and hate speech on themselves and their larger communities? How can we help them explore the roles people play and how individual actions -- negative and positive, intentional and unintentional -- can affect their peers and their broader communities? Join this introductory session to digital citizenship with a focus on cyberbullying, digital drama, and hate speech.

Target Audience: All

Ballroom 201

Brendan Montagne & Rachael Farrell, MS-ISAC (V)

Description: Cyber challenges face all organizations, especially K-12. Threat actors aren't only after money and personal information, but they are also looking to damage our reputation. While no single organization can prevent these actors from targeting and infiltrating our organizations, the resources provided at no-cost by the MS-ISAC can help mitigate these risks. Resources ranging from live intelligence, to actively blocking malicious connections, the MS-ISAC provides these resources to 2,000+ schools across the US. We will discuss the current threats impacting K-12 and free services from the MS-ISA

Target Audience: All

Ballroom 202

Thomas C. Murray, Featured Speaker

Description: Throughout this summit, leaders will:

Reflect on their own leadership and what aspects help or hinder those they lead;
Explore ways to create cultures of innovation and risk-taking;
Explore a framework to identify practical ways to make learning Personal & Authentic
Identify issues related to equity in access and opportunity;
Leave motivated to continue the needed work in your school or district moving forward.

Target Audience: Separate registration is required for this event

Ballroom 204

Josh Allen, Lewis Central Community School District

Description: If the first you think of when someone says "Google Sites" is a clunky, outdated website creation tool, you're wrong! Come check out some of the fantastically cool things you can do with Google Sites that makes it a great resource for any teacher!

Target Audience: Novice

Session Resource

205

Ashley White, GoGuardian + Pear Deck + Edulastic (V)

Description: Learn how to create Decks using the Pear Deck for Google Slides Add-on! We’ll cover how to use templates to add formative assessments, polls, and interactive activities. You’ll also see examples of best practices to help cultivate an engaging classroom with Pear Deck both in-person and in remote learning environments.

Target Audience: Novice

206

Nick Schmidt, Securly (V)

Description: Students are growing up in unprecedented times, and it’s more important than ever for them to receive support early on. But how do you know if a student’s struggling? This presentation will discuss research on cyber-bullying, self-harm, and how AI plays a role to aid student wellness.

Target Audience: Intermediate

207

Dustin Frank, KCAV (V) & JR Kuchta, Rise Vision (V)

Description: Come learn how to improve communication throughout your school district with the #1 cloud-based digital signage solution for K-12 schools. It’s user-friendly with over 400 pre-made templates AND affordable. Schedule your content to keep students, staff, parents, and daily visitors up to date with important messages from your school or district. You’ll love seeing all the templates and support Rise Vision provides. Start boosting engagement and connection today!

Target Audience: All

208

Lucas Bingham, Papillion La Vista Community Schools

Description: This is a session for all pre-service/new teachers (student teaching or in their first year or two). Hear tips and tricks from veterans and other new teachers on how to be successful in your district with technology, how to balance the needs of taking in everything that's thrown your way as a new staff member.

Target Audience: Novice

209

McKenzie White, Bennington Public Schools &
Jackie Happer, Omaha Public Schools

Description: Did you know that 1 in 59 students nationwide are identified as having autism? We’ve seen an increase in autism awareness, but many school districts lack resources to support student development and learning to become more inclusive of affected students and families. Using a strengths versus deficit approach, this session pairs the CASEL framework along with best practices to support students with autism and extend those practices to the digital environment. Attendees will takeaway 10 applications to support students with autism in the area of self-management.

Target Audience: All

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210

Wade Gibson & Alex Wyatt, ESU 11

Description: Are you ready to Guac? Join Wade Gibson & Alex Wyatt as they turn it up to 11 and rock your world with Guacamole! This free and open source software will revolutionize (and secure!) the way you allow remote access into your school’s network. Simplify firewall rules, enforce MFA, and skip the hassle of setting up vendor VPNs. For those about to Guac, we salute you!

Target Audience: Advanced

211

Levette Williams, AEM Education Services

Description: This presentation will review the basics of the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and delve into common scenarios faced by districts. It is intended for anyone who works with personally identifiable student data on a daily basis, from the classroom teacher level to the district superintendent. This session will improve understanding of FERPA and the context for the law and reduce misconceptions & misunderstandings about FERPA.

Target Audience: All

212

Apple Education

Description: This session, designed for all teachers, administrators and leadership will look at how mobile technology is transforming many industries, including education. Please join Dan Senstock, Apple Executive for College Athletics as he discusses how mobile solutions in higher education are impacting the world of College Athletics along with how these changes are reflecting as well in professional sports.

Target Audience: All

213

Lindsay Zilly, Featured Speaker

Description: Explore and apply instructional design principles to create innovative digital learning experiences that engage and support learning. Reignite yours and your students passions for learning.

Target Audience: All

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214

Lenny VerMaas

Description: When playing a video game, students see mistakes as learning opportunities and collaborate with other students as a key component of a winning game strategy. They see struggle, taking risks, and persistence as steps to achieve a high score. In this session, we look at what makes video games engaging and how to use those strategies so that students develop a “growth mindset” for learning in your classroom. Any grade level. http://bit.ly/lennyvgrowth

Target Audience: Intermediate

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215

Matt Moore, Papillion La Vista Community Schools

Description: Sick of wanting to try something creative, but you don't have the time to teach the software to your students or plan it. Adobe's Creative Cloud Express is easy for students of any level to start creating. In this session, we are going to explore ways to differentiate creative outcomes using Adobe's free (for education) software tools. Scaffolding projects can be tough but by building custom templates and libraries in ACCE, you can easily support all your learners in the creative process. Let me show you the fun you can have with Adobe Creative Cloud Express.

Target Audience: Novice

Session Resource

216

Dawn Ferreyra, ESU 3

Description: Avoid implementation pitfalls! This session will explore the factors that lead to successful project implementation and how educators apply change in their classrooms. Using the Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning and project development strategies, you will walk away with templates for planning your implementation along with look-fors to help you determine success.

Target Audience: All

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