Registration / Morning Refreshments / Exhibit Area Open

Opening Remarks

Keynote

Communicating the Right Way – It’s Not Just What You Say, It’s How You Say It!

Communication skills are constantly being judged by others, often subconsciously. How you communicate in everything from casual conversations to formal presentations can be the difference between success and failure. Don’t miss what is often your only opportunity to connect and leave a lasting impression. This session focuses on how to think quickly, take control and effectively communicate your message to a wide variety of audiences, including customers, vendors, staff, management, boards and even news media. You will learn how to reduce nervousness, craft a message, answer tough questions, master your material, use PowerPoint correctly, interpret body language, engage your audience and much, much more.

Anthony Huey, President, Reputation Management Associates (@anthonyhuey)

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Concurrent Sessions 1

Technology Core Teacher Project for Professional Development

The Technology Core Teacher Project was designed to provide a mechanism for ongoing, high quality professional development for the effective integration of technology into instruction. This is a stipend-based position where teachers participate in an online learning experience, receive personalized coaching and opportunities to collaborate with others. In this presentation, we will share the model and process, as well as hear from teachers who have completed the program.

Tiffany Crawford, Teacher, Balsz School District

Katherine George, Teacher, Balsz School District

Joy Hallett, Teacher, Balsz School District

Patricia Lacina, Technology Mentor Teacher, Balsz School District

Julie Morgenthal, Technology Director, Balsz School District

Bringing the Federal NIST Security Framework to K-12

Security in K-12 has quickly become a daunting challenge and is not, nor should it be, IT’s problem only. But, how do you move a K-12 enterprise forward in security given all the challenges to education in Arizona? How do you make security be in the uppermost tier of practices that K-12s must execute? Come hear how one district is collaborating with professionals from the Executive Women's Forum to increase not only district-wide awareness and understanding, but help establish support when action steps should be taken.

Jeff Billings, IT Director, Paradise Valley Unified School District

Tina Thorstenson, Chief Information Security Officer, Arizona State University

Marnie Wilking, Chief Information Security Officer, Orion Health

AV Technology for Collaborative Learning Spaces

Methods of instruction and the ways in which we share ideas are changing, with today’s innovative facility designs reflecting these priorities. In addition to furniture, arrangement and aesthetics, audiovisual technology is a critical component to delivering on the promise of these new strategies. The type and quantity of displays, video routing, audio support and system control all contribute to the overall performance of the system. Selecting technologies that align with your instructional goals is critical to ensuring success. This presentation will discuss the latest educational audiovisual technology and its use in modern classroom and collaboration applications.

Anthony Cortes, Director of Sales and Marketing, Education Classroom Systems, Extron

Save Time Managing Your Apple Devices While Improving the User Experience

During this session, you will learn how to automate Mac, iPad and Apple TV deployment, simplify ongoing management and empower your school’s teachers and students with the tools they need to take learning to a whole new level – all while saving the IT department time and money.

Si Cook, Sales Engineer – Education, Jamf

Kim Fuller-Ames, Strategic Account Executive – K-12 Southwest, Jamf

Next Generation Analytics – Predicting the Future

Ready to see the next generation of analytics? Imagine moving from a snapshot of performance to predicting “what’s likely to happen next” with a high degree of certainty. See how K-12 data is being used in predictive models to provide insights for making critical instructional decisions. Specific K-12 examples will be shared, such as projecting future student performance on AzMERIT assessments. You will also see how cognitive computing is applied to K-12 longitudinal data. Districts can ask natural English language questions to quickly navigate data, prepare expert dashboards and view correlations your district never knew existed.

Kirk Kelly, PhD, Data Scientist, DecisionEd

Mark Mason, Chief Architect, DecisionEd

Lunch

General Session

The Top Ten (Cheap!) Security Things to Do Now . . . And 10 More When You Have Time

Learn about ten low- and no-cost activities you can do right now to reduce your cybersecurity risk using publicly available resources. And, because we just couldn't help ourselves, we’ll share another ten to keep in mind for the future.

Tina Thorstenson, Chief Information Security Officer, Arizona State University

Marnie Wilking, Chief Information Security Officer, Orion Health

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Concurrent Sessions 2

Next Generation Classroom: Love It or Hate It 2.0

This interactive session will be a facilitated opportunity for attendees to join in a shared discussion. The experienced facilitators will lead participants through a protocol designed to encourage learning from each other on trending topics focused on the next generation classroom (such as Computer Science Gen Alpha, C&I and IT collaboration, keyboarding and social media). Join this lively session to learn from other expert participants in a fun manner.

Renda Fisk, Technology Integration Coordinator, Flagstaff Unified School District

Mary Knight, Technology Director, Flagstaff Unified School District

Heather Zeigler, Digital Literacy Specialist, Flagstaff Unified School District

From Disparate Data to Knowledge

Chandler Unified has worked over the course of the last five years to centralize data from disparate source systems. The culmination of the data warehousing has resulted in front-end user visualizations for items like school demographics and a student early warning system. Using Tableau, a business intelligence tool, Chandler can now put data that once disappeared into an educational black box back into the hands of the front-end user to make decisions.

Colleen Flannery, Director of Instructional Technology, Chandler Unified

Scott Krause, Information Systems, Chandler Unified

Dr. Juan Marquez, Programmer, Chandler Unified

Josh Sheffield, Information Systems, Chandler Unified

Dr. Matthew Strom, Assistant Superintendent of K-12 Educational Services, Chandler Unified

Cindy Young, Programmer, Chandler Unified

Collaboration @ 10x! Unleash Creativity with Jamboard

Google + whiteboard = Jamboard! Collaboration just took a leap forward. Jamboard’s unique features elevate traditional brainstorming. Students and teachers can collaborate from anywhere on a shared “Jam” using either the board or the free companion app. Alongside the time-tested free forms of drawing and writing, Jamboard incorporates intelligent features like handwriting and shape recognition. You can also bring the best of G Suite and the web into your creative sessions with Google Search, Images and Drive all integrated.

Megan Bird, Teacher, Paradise Valley Unified School District

Karen Mensing, Teacher, Paradise Valley Unified School District

Britton Picciolini, Regional Manager, Google for Education

Students, Paradise Valley Unified School District

Where Did All the Teachers Go?

What does the future of teaching look like in the classroom over the next five to twenty years? What is the relationship between a human teacher and a machine teacher? Technology is rapidly changing the way we deliver curriculum and how students consume it. Today, most institutions are reacting to the technology versus planning for what is coming and incorporating it in a proactive and ethical way. This session will explore the future of machine learning and artificial intelligence in the classroom and ways traditional teaching can co-exist. We will also investigate the responsibility for protecting the data these new methods will generate.

Mike Trojecki, Vice President, IoT and Analytics, Logicalis, Inc.

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Concurrent Sessions 3

DigCit Smarts: Hard Discussions When You Don’t Have Answers

Digital citizenship is about more than safety. It’s about being smart. With such recent technology developments, we don’t have all the “right answers” for talking to kids about social media, so we just don’t talk about it. We’ll identify ways to have conversations with kids about how they use the web rather than preaching to them. We will also help identify ways kids (and adults) can model and create a safe, positive digital footprint.

Deborah Kuenzli, Assistant Director of STEM and College & Career Readiness, Cartwright School District

Dierdre Shetler, STEM Instructional Technology Specialist, Cartwright School District

The Old IT Director’s Curmudgeonly Guide to Just About Everything

Matt Federoff brings a quarter-century of IT leadership to bear on various topics in IT leadership, PD and just about anything else you can imagine. He will take great delight in eviscerating your assumptions and expectations, so come prepared to share, discuss and debate. He only does this every other year (and he’s running out of years . . .), so come join the fun and hold on tight.

Matt Federoff, Chief Information Officer, Vail School District

Network Performance of LoLa at Gammage Auditorium

A ground-breaking, network performance of a technology called LoLa (low latency) provided a first of its kind musical orchestration. High school students performed with ASU’s Wind Ensemble Orchestra at Gammage Auditorium in a live demonstration, while separated by 25 miles of distance. Come experience the technology, the concert, network specifications and sound engineering, now available to Arizona K-12s using the Arizona Sun Corridor Network.

Jeff Billings, IT Director, Paradise Valley Unified School District

Jason Caslor, Associate Director of Bands and Orchestras, Arizona State University

Strategic Management: How ASU Prep Digital Leverages Salesforce

Education organizations must offer an intuitive and exceptional student experience, which involves ensuring institutional and student information is accurate and accessible. Though, with tightening budgets, the cumbersome and costly challenge is to effectively manage multiple disparate systems of information. This session will provide examples of how the virtual school ASU Prep Digital is leveraging the Salesforce platform to manage admissions data. There will also be information shared about ASU’s future plans for use of the platform. Attendees will gain key insights about Salesforce and how it can be incorporated to create a robust ecosystem of information that supports both students and their families.

Jamie Moran, Director of Operation, ASU Prep Digital

Adjourn

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