ACPE 2025 - Include IT

Ransomware attacks are on the rise, targeting schools and education systems with increasing frequency. Learn how to proactively defend against these threats using automated backup, detection, and recovery solutions. This session will cover key strategies to detect ransomware, secure your SaaS applications like Google Workspace and Classroom, and recover from attacks with minimal disruption.

Schools and districts have a myriad of tasks and choices to enable artificial intelligence capabilities to support learning, teaching, and operations. This session will examine the sequencing of steps that K-12 institutions can take to balance availability, capability, and cost to initiate AI implementation with a commitment to long-term sustainability. Issues impacting adoption rates by community members, deployment of edge- and cloud-based capabilities, and security and privacy will be addressed.  The session will conclude with a review of the current state of AI in K-12, a projection of AI capability and adoption in the near term, and a discussion of the cultural and operational changes which may occur.