Did you miss the TCEA AI for Educators Conference held on July 22-24, 2025? No worries, you can still sign up for next year’s event. 😉

At the TCEA AI for Educators Conference online event, July 22-24, 2025, I presented on these three topics:

• Building Your Knowledge Stack: Creating Reliable #AI Systems for #Education
  Stop getting random results from AI tools and start building systems that consistently deliver for your classroom needs. In this hands-on session, you’ll learn to create powerful custom instructions for ChatGPT, Custom GPTs, and Google Gems that transform generic AI into education-specific tools. Walk away with templates, prompt frameworks, and strategies to make AI work reliably for lesson planning, differentiation, and assessment.
  
• DIY #AI: Running Powerful Models Locally to Save Money and Protect Privacy
  Break free from subscription-based AI! In this hands-on workshop, educators will install and configure Ollama, Page Assist to run powerful AI models directly on their devices. You’ll walk away with a functioning local AI system, hardware optimization strategies, and practical classroom applications that maintain student data privacy while eliminating monthly costs.
  
• Lassoing AI for Learning: High-Impact Strategies That Work
  Saddle up, partner! The future of teaching is here, and it’s time to wrangle AI to boost student learning. In this high-energy, hands-on session, we’ll corral evidence-based strategies like retrieval practice (0.46), summarization (0.74), argumentation (0.86), and problem-solving teaching (0.68)—then hitch ‘em up with AI tools to make lesson planning smoother than a fresh trail ride. With the Amazing Lesson Design Outline (ALDO) and SOLO Taxonomy as our trusty map, we’ll blaze a trail from surface learning to deep and transfer learning. By the time you ride out, you’ll have a whole saddlebag of AI-powered strategies ready to rustle up student success! And, you get access to a BoodleBox Bot (free) to play, “High Yield Strategy Derby.”

Update: I’m revamping one of these sessions for a Lunch and Learn during the 2025-2026 school year, probably in December, 2025. Be sure to sign up! https://tcea.org/events