WeTeach_CS Summit 2025: Full Schedule

June 9-10, 2025
Renaissance Austin Hotel - 9721 Arboretum Blvd, Austin, TX 78759
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9:45am CDT

Securing the Future: Introducing NIST 800-171 to High School Educators

Monday June 9, 2025 9:45am - 10:45am CDT

Trinity B

Prepare your students for cybersecurity careers by exploring the foundational principles of NIST 800-171, a critical standard for safeguarding sensitive information. This session will equip high school educators with the knowledge to teach students about Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), compliance requirements, and best practices in data security. Learn how to connect industry standards to classroom instruction, inspire students to pursue cybersecurity pathways, and engage with real-world scenarios that demonstrate the importance of protecting data in today’s digital world.

Presenters

Nathaniel Mendoza

Manager, Networking, Security & OperationsnSenior Network Engineer, Texas Advanced Computing Center

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathaniel-mendoza-71a398/

Nikki Hendricks

Sr. Cybersecurity Education Specialist, TACC

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicola-nikki-hendricks/

Monday June 9, 2025 9:45am - 10:45am CDT
Trinity B

Cybersecurity, Middle School and High School (Grades 6-12)

12:45pm CDT

Rewiring Education: Creating a Computational Thinking Ecosystem in Schools

Monday June 9, 2025 12:45pm - 1:45pm CDT

Trinity B

Embark on a journey to transform your middle school into a hub of computational thinking. This session will introduce the fundamental principles of computational thinking and demonstrate how to weave them into the fabric of your school's culture, creating a school-wide ecosystem that nurtures logical reasoning, pattern recognition, and algorithmic thinking across grade levels and subjects and addresses many of the new 6-8 Technology Applications TEKS. Participants will explore practical activities and examples that integrate computational thinking into their classroom, empowering educators to foster critical problem-solving skills in students, preparing them for success in an increasingly digital world.

Presenters

Laura Deiss

TXLS Program Manager, Region 3 Education Service Center

Laura Deiss has thirty-two years of educational experience, 21 years working in districts and the last 10 years at Region 3 as an Education Specialist, responsible for K-5 science, Region 3 TEKS Resource System Leadership Team Representative, Region 3 EcosySTEM Lead, Technology Applications... Read More →

Molly Kresta

Teacher/Instructional Technology Coach, Louise ISD

Monday June 9, 2025 12:45pm - 1:45pm CDT
Trinity B

Integrating Computational Thinking / Computer Science / Cybersecurity into other subjects, K-8

2:00pm CDT

Code.org CS Connections: Resources to integrate CS into Core Content Classes

Monday June 9, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm CDT

Trinity B

You may have utilized Hour of Code activities with your students or in your after-school STEM/Coding clubs. Did you know that Code.org has open-ended activities/lessons to support core content Science, Math, Social Studies and ELAR TEKS? Utilizing a stream-lined version of Sprite Lab, these activities will enhance your ability to integrate computer science into core content lessons and provide a robust exposure to basic computer science principles that are part of the new Technology Applications TEKS. No prior teacher knowledge of computer science is required, teachers can easily adapt lessons to meet core content TEKS.

Presenters

Susan F. Reeves

Consultant, Education Service Center Region 20

Susan is a consultant for Digital Age Learning for Education Service Center, Region 20 in San Antonio and K-8 Facilitator for Code.org. She is also serving as the CS Pipeline Project Director for ESC-20. Prior to ESC-20 she was a teacher and instructional technology specialist in... Read More →

Monday June 9, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm CDT
Trinity B

Integrating Computational Thinking / Computer Science / Cybersecurity into other subjects, K-8