2025 TETL Summer Conference

K12 techs often struggle with limited time and tools to proactively monitor online risks within Google Workspace/Microsoft 365. In this interactive session, we pull from our experience performing thousands of cybersecurity and safety audits with districts to bring you the top eight investigations that will impact your district the most. Discover how to efficiently audit your environment by quickly identifying risks like suspicious logins, data leaks, and student safety concerns, without overwhelming your workload.

A discussion to explore strategies for optimizing cybersecurity toolsets in a landscape of over 3,000 vendors. Most organizations use dozens of cybersecurity tools, creating complexity, confusion, and inefficiencies. Learn how to consolidate core security controls, enhance data visibility, and align tools with organizational needs like AI adoption. Discover practical approaches to threat modeling and collaboration to build efficient, effective security programs that maintain a cost-effective and robust security posture while streamlining operations.

Presentation to share the journey of building our cybersecurity program from the ground up.  Explores how we transitioned from basic controls to a mature strategic security program aligned with compliance frameworks.  Highlights include team building and development, milestones, challenges, and strategies driving our security posture forward.

We create pathways to useful data that can drive decisions on campuses and in classrooms. The Texas Education Exchange is a data solution designed by Regional Education Centers that delivers interoperable information to districts across the state. We offer access to applications that harness data in new and powerful ways, removing barriers and giving you data at your fingertips. We put data tools into the hands of educators to make a difference in student outcomes.