2025 TETL Summer Conference

David Waugh

In this informative session, come learn how ManagedMethods is implementing advanced Gemini powered artificial intelligence to protect schools against email threats, phishing, social engineering, impersonation and account takeovers. Using advanced Chain of Thought reasoning models developed using the latest breakthrough technology from Google DeepMind Gemini Flash architecture, ManagedMethods continues to be the leader in Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 cybersecurity and student safety.

What is it that really works with edtech? How can we move past digitizing worksheets to engage students in meaningful and relevant ways? What does research on the effective use of edtech actually indicate? How can we best implement these ideas during instruction, and how can we also leverage tools for efficiency? Join this year’s keynote speaker Thomas C. Murray to explore meaningful ways to seamlessly integrate technology resources into your setting and leave with great, useable digital tools and resources for your work! Bring your device, come ready to explore and leave with tools you can use tomorrow!

Join Amanda Lanicek of Springtown ISD and ClassLink to journey through the Cybersecurity Rubric 2.0, discovering how the use of the assessment results will enable you to develop a strategic plan for improvement. The rubric was designed to measure cybersecurity effectiveness in school systems by gauging cybersecurity practice maturity levels against the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework 2.0. We will also explore ClassLink’s Audit Center which provides a central repository where you can store your cybersecurity rubrics you do every single year, gathering that data to help you prioritize your efforts to increase your security posture. Your journey to a more cyber-secure school system begins here!

Discover how school districts, technical centers, community colleges and universities across Texas are using augmented reality, virtual reality and AI to innovate their STEM and CTE programs.

This session will feature Ben Peterson, former CTE Director at North East ISD, who has taken a unique approach to workforce preparedness with his students. Using AR/VR computers, Ben rotated students through hands-on activities in STEM, Health Sciences, Advanced Manufacturing, Agri-Science, and Transportation to expose students to career pathways. This approach has led to improved achievement, engagement, motivation, and workforce preparedness.

Join a fast-growth district to learn how siloed technology departments came together to develop unified technology teams. Collaborating with iSphere, Conroe ISD identified  emerging top-tier operational technology school districts among the 27 largest school districts in Texas. With this clear picture of reality, Conroe ISD is developing a long-range technology strategic plan (aligned with district goals and objectives) for driving technology initiatives within our fast growth district over the next five years.

Learn how a new era of innovation in education is here, transforming what leaders, educators, and students can do with Apple products — and what Apple products can do for them. This session is designed to help school leaders and educators navigate how Apple Intelligence fits into their school and learning environments privately and securely. Explore how Apple Intelligence seamlessly integrates into system experiences and apps used every day, and how new tools such as Writing Tools, Image Playground, and Transcripts use personal context to deliver intelligence that’s useful and relevant, enhancing productivity and creativity.

Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction of the Macintosh computer in 1984. Since then Apple has designed products and programs that help unleash the creative potential in every individual, no matter how they learn and what they love to do. Apple Education is dedicated to helping schools around the world expand what’s possible for learning, create new opportunities for teaching, and establish dynamic environments that inspire both.