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WeTeach_CS Summit 2025
June 9-10, 2025
Renaissance Austin Hotel - 9721 Arboretum Blvd, Austin, TX 78759
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Monday, June 9
 

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.
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Nathaniel Mendoza

Manager, Networking, Security & OperationsnSenior Network Engineer, Texas Advanced Computing Center
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathaniel-mendoza-71a398/
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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.
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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 →
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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.
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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
 
Tuesday, June 10
 

10:00am CDT

Reflectively Unpacking the CSTA Standards for CS Teachers
Tuesday June 10, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am CDT
Trinity B
Participants will reflect on their practice while using CSTA Standards for CS Teachers while in this session. Through discussion and specific examples, participants will leave this session with a better understanding of the standards and how they can improve their pedagogical practice. This will be a facilitated discussion targeting selected strands in the standards. Participants will reflect on their own practice or what they have seen in computer science classrooms. This session will include new resources from the Reflective Teachers Workgroup. This session is an opportunity for computer science teachers and administrators who support them to engage with CSTA Standards for CS Teachers. In this session, participants will have an opportunity to reflect on their practice and set goals aligned to these standards.
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Dan Blier

CTE Coordinator, Plano ISD
@dan_blier & https://www.linkedin.com/in/danblier/
Tuesday June 10, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am CDT
Trinity B
  Leadership, K-12

11:15am CDT

CS+Elementary is for Everyone!
Tuesday June 10, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm CDT
Trinity B
CS+Elementary - a free, project-based, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade CS curriculum designed for teachers with little or no experience in Computer Science. 2 units per grade. Over 170 lessons. The curriculum features integrated ELD and language support. Spanish-language curriculum for dual immersion classrooms available.
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Beth Simon

Teaching Professor, UC San Diego
Tuesday June 10, 2025 11:15am - 12:15pm CDT
Trinity B
  Introductory Computer Science, K-5

1:30pm CDT

Deceptive Data Displays - Teaching Students to Decode the Truth
Tuesday June 10, 2025 1:30pm - 2:30pm CDT
Trinity B
Reality is complicated. Equip your students to become critical thinkers in a data-driven world where “facts” compete to be the “truth”. Learning how data can be manipulated to mislead and distort reality is essential for students growing up in the digital era. This session will guide you in recognizing common tactics such as misleading graphs, cherry-picked statistics, and sample bias. Participate in interactive activities and engage with real-world data to help your students identify and question deceptive data. You’ll gain practical tools and resources to help students become discerning consumers of information, capable of distinguishing truth from manipulation. 
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Charles Wang

Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesdwang/
Tuesday June 10, 2025 1:30pm - 2:30pm CDT
Trinity B
  Integrating Computational Thinking / Computer Science / Cybersecurity into other subjects, Middle School and High School (Grades 6-12)
 
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